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A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
by Mark Bauer
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Much madness is divinest sense, wrote Emily Dickinson, And much sense the starkest madness. The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his... ( read more)
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John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought. Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns
by Gordon Campbell
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Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of... ( read more)
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
by Mary Oliver
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From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be. In The... ( read more)
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Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations (Pitt Poetry)
by Robert Bly
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Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art. Part anthology and part commentary, Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry... ( read more)
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Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself (Vintage)
by Ann Wroe
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From Ann Wroe--author of highly and widely praised Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man--comes another singularly iconoclastic achievement: a book about Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition, that is... ( read more)
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The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Signet Classics)
by Edgar Allan Poe
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A classic collection From the exquisite lyric aTo Helen, a to the immortal masterpieces aAnnabel Lee, a aThe Bells, a and aThe Raven, a The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the authoras gift for the form.... ( read more)
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The Pocket Rumi (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
by Mevlana Jalalu Rumi
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Rumi has never been more popular among American readers. Here is a pocket-sized collection of his inspiring poetry. "The Pocket Rumi" contains selections from four previously published books, as well as translations of Rumi's short lyric poems.... ( read more)
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life
by Paul Mariani
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Mariani, an award-winning poet and author of a number of biographies of literary figures, brilliantly integrates Hopkins' spiritual life and his literary life to create a rich and compelling portrait of a man whose poetry continues to speak to readers a... ( read more)
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Cloisters
by Kristin Bock
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Kristin Bock's first published collection of poetry highlights her intriguingly spare, economical verse. Her lines are subliminally infused with gothic imagery and visceral insights. She is compellingly original, and each poem is liberally seasoned with... ( read more)
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience are Blake's most familiar poems. A few examples, such as The Tyger and The Chimney Sweeper, frequently appear in anthologies of English literature, in which the poems are often printed without Blake's evocative... ( read more)
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The Moon Makes Its Own Plea (American Poets Continuum)
by Wendy Mnookin
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The Moon Makes Its Own Pleais a departure from Wendy Mnookin's previous work. Rather than considering a single experience that transforms her perception of her world (such as a child's illness, a father's death), Mnookin explores the idea of self and how... ( read more)
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Biogeography
by Sandra Meek
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Scientists use the word "biogeography"for the geographical distribution of plant and animal life. Sandra Meek's Biogeographyis a powerful metaphysical meditation on the connections between us humans and the larger natural world. Her elegant verse... ( read more)
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Legible Heavens
by H. L. Hix
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"Untroubled authority . . . and the talent to make us weep."-Dan Chiasson, Poetry "He has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today... ( read more)
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Restoration
by Christina Pugh
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A recipient of the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, and a fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, Christina Pugh is the author of Gardening at Dusk and Rotary, which was awarded the 2003 Word Press First Book Prize.... ( read more)
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The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Eastern European Poets)
by Eugene Ostashevsky
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The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinozais a cycle of fast, tragic, unsettling, hilarious poems about the shortcomings of reason. Eugene Ostashevsky's book responds to The Ethics of the seventeenth-century philosopher B. Spinoza, a work that seeks to... ( read more)
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The Return of the Prophet
by Hajjar Gibran
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In the tradition of the beloved masterpiece The Prophet, Hajjar Gibran -- an ancestral descendant of Kahlil Gibran -- presents a parable of spiritual awakening based on his often heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant life. With its universal themes... ( read more)
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Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript
by Bob Dylan
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Surfacing for the first time after more than forty years, Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric is a remarkable, long-lost manuscript written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, inspired by renowned photographer Barry Feinstein's portraits of Tinseltown. These twenty-three... ( read more)
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The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Robert Faggen
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Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The... ( read more)
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Breaking the Willow: Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion (Companions for the Journey)
by David Lunde
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Breaking the Willowis a wonderful collection of classic Chinese poems on the themes of parting and exile. The poems capture brief meetings between poet friends over a jug of wine, the lament of lovers parting, and the seclusion of the hermit. One can... ( read more)
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Intruder
by Jill Bialosky
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In this haunting, beautiful third collection from Jill Bialosky, the poet examines the intrusion of eros, art, and the imagination on ordinary life. The lover who whispers “Is it still snowing? . . . Will you stay with me?” in the first poem... ( read more)
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