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Report copyright infringementby Eric Reese (Author)They said it wouldn't last, but hip hop changed the world. Hear the story straight from the mouths of the movers and shakers.The 1990s represent hip hop's coming of age - when rap burst from urban undergrounds to captivate mainstream audiences globally. "The History of Hip Hop: Volume 3" chronicles this pivotal decade.Perfect for both newcomers and lifelong hip hop heads, you'll unearth: The East vs West coast rivalry between NYC and LA rapp...

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Report copyright infringementby Unnati Sarda (Author)"From the void to fullness, the moon travels a transformational path. This course of the moon is symbolic of our imperfect journey, which may or may not always be beautiful but remains enriching in many ways. Transformation is a difficult path because it occurs entwined with life as it is. The soul evolves despite life as well as because of it. Only a few reach complete illumination, but those who reach the gibbous, the 'almost there' stage...

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Report copyright infringementby Brianna Gaffney (Author)You name it and I have been curious about it. Confessions of toeing the line. Honest. Raw. Vulnerable. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 21, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Campbell (Author)""The path to parenthood is a long and ever winding road. In Moments of Matrescence, Hannah explores love, loss as well as the experience of discovering power and purpose in the every day of motherhood."" Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Devon Grasley (Author)Here I stand is a collection of poems that tell the story of failure, heartbreak and perseverance. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Mark O. Decker (Author)This is the third book in the "Watershed Years" series that contains poems the author wrote in years 1992 -1997. His thrid, and last, child - Kelly McEwan Decker - was born in 1990. This joy and starting a new career as an investment banker were the major new themes of his life. Number of Pages: 358 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 14, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice Bloomfield (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

The Poems of Rudyard Kipling - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Haskell Dole (Author), Rudyard Kipling (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we conc...

Runic and Heroic Poems of the old Teutonic Peoples - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dickins Bruce (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sacha A. K. Aller-Han (Author)I am not sure if one would call these poems, but what they are, are the thoughts that have lingered in the darkest depths of my mind. In times of hardship, when I had no one to confide in, my journal was where I poured my soul into. Be warned, dearest traveler, for what you are about to journey into will not be joyful. Illustrated version. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN Publi...

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Report copyright infringementby Hector Berlioz (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

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Report copyright infringementby Duncan Cameron (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath - Hardcover

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by Dilek Bulut Sarikaya (Author)This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poets' botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life. Author BiographyDilek Bulut Sarıkaya is associate professor of English literature at Cappadocia University. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2024

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again - Paperback

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by Wallis C. III Baxter (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet the author presents Phillis Wheatley as a preacher and theologian committed to transforming her world through her poetry. The result is a prophetic message of hope for the oppressed and corrective instruction for the institutional power structures.Author BiographyReverend Wallis C. Baxter IIIserves as Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church Southwest in District Heights, MD. Number of Pages: 154 ...

Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions - Hardcover

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by Ce Rosenow (Author)Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore's haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further develop...

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again - Hardcover

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by Wallis C. Baxter III (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley's poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley's poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up t...

Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works - Paperback

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by Fabian Alfie (Editor), Nicolino Applauso (Editor)This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante's Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante's satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.Author BiographyFabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. Nicolino Applauso is visiting assista...

The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Nappo (Author)The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is an exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. Using lyrics from Sabina's discography, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes his use of rhetorical and poetic devices, his ability as a narrator, and compares his work to that of Bob Dylan.Author BiographyDaniel J. Nappo is professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Number of Pages: 204 Dimen...

Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology - Hardcover

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by Dennis Wilson Wise (Editor)In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that speculative poets over the last century have initiated a long unrecognized revival of medieval alliterative poetics. This anthology collects for the first time those poets--C. S. Lewis, Poul Anderson, and others--who have fomented this revival.Author BiographyDennis Wilson Wise is professor of practice and director of undergraduate studies for the English Department a...

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by E. D. Blodgett (Author), Susan McCaslin (Editor), Sheila Martineau (Designed by)E.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet's lifelong devotion to a poetry and poetics of the sacred. The poems in this volume present as a single long poem that explores the processes of walking, moving, changing, and evolving within a unified field.Author BiographyE.D. Blodgett (1935 - 2018), PhD, was a poet who published close to 30 books of poetry, for which he r...

Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric: Disquietude, Rumination, Interruption, Inspiration, Constellation - Hardcover

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by Irene Ramalho-Santos (Author)Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa's poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.Author BiographyIrene Ramalho-Santos is Professor Emerita of English and Feminist Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Sen...

Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Jahner (Editor), Ingrid Nelson (Editor), C. David Benson (Contribution by)Dedicated to the scholarship of Elizabeth Robertson, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature is a collection of essays that explore how gender in medieval English literature intersects with philosophy, poetry, history, and religion.Author BiographyJennifer Jahner is professor of English at Caltech. Ingrid Nelson is associate professor of English at Amherst College. Number of Page...

Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse - Paperback

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by Antjie Krog (Author)This is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history--the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Antjie Krog powerfully brings together the historical and the poetic in a turbulent South Africa.Author BiographyAntjie Krog is professor at the University of the Western Cape. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9...

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore - Paperback

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by Margaret Ziolkowski (Author)Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny ("new songs"), have often been the subject of folkloristic controversy. This study tells the story of the rise and fall of the noviny in all its cultural richness and pathos, an instructive tale of the interaction of aesthetics and ideology.Author BiographyMargaret Ziolkowski is professor of Russian at Miami University (Ohio). She has worked on topics in Russian literature ranging from the med...

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by Jody Allen Randolph (Author)In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease wit...

Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets - Paperback

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by Deborah Kennedy (Author)Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network, and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poetic achievement and its resonance for the twenty-first-century reader.Author BiographyDeborah Kennedy is professor of English at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where ...

The Poetry Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine - Paperback

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by Joseph Parisi (Author), Stephen Young (Author)Publishing monthly without interruption since 1912, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record. Decade by decade, this ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents, along with several lesser known. Poetry is an American institution. -T. S. Eliot Number of Pages: 50...

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by Geoffrey Brock (Author)The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Geoffrey Brock's Weighing Light. From the glinting scales in a painting by Vermeer to the white lines that disappear beneath a headlight's beam, Mr. Brock's poems measure out the often elusive weights and distances of the known world, confronting the unruly powers that threaten his burnished surfaces. His acute observations of landscape and of the smallest gestures that pass between people give rise to affe...

Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger's Verse - Paperback

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by Martin Heidegger (Author), Eoghan Walls (Translator)Thought Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger's collected works, with the German alongside the English. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanity's primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought poems show Heidegger's language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being.Author BiographyMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher and one of the most impor...

Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope - Paperback

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by Peter Dale Scott (Author)Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.Author BiographyPeter Dale Scott taught at Sedbergh School and McGill University before joining the Canadian Department of External Affai...

The Lived International: A Life in International Relations - Paperback

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by Obe Stephen Chan (Author)The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan's personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author's academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken...

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us - Paperback

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by Bartholomew Ryan (Editor), Giovanbattista Tusa (Editor), Antonio Cardiello (Editor)This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy. Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2023