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The Sleep of Reason
by David Gewanter
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The Sleep of Reason plunges us into a macabre world where good impulses bring on evil consequences—a world not unlike our own. In David Gewanter's alternately delightful and startling poems, allegory comes alive and stalks a bookstore's musty... ( read more)
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Doing Lucretius
by Sidney Burris
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In Doing Lucretius, Sidney Burris crosses a sensibility shaped by a classical education with a contemporary culture that finds such an education increasingly remote and forbidding. Molding his artistry and buttressing his response to modern society with... ( read more)
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Defoe (Masterworks of Fiction)
by Leslie Scalapino
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Defoe is an epic where images of -battle become meditations, an epic wherein events flap in silence as the narrative moves toward a place where the reader and text become one. The images of this fiction don't resemble events, but are new occurrences in... ( read more)
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Combustion
by Lorri N Glenn
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Lorri Neilsen Glenn' s poems welcome the reader into a place where the strange is made familiar and the familiar reveals its own magic. Here the combustible materials of childhood and old age are always potentially present, and the attention paid them... ( read more)
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Remembering the Truth
by Janice Krass Tatter
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Tatter writes with searing honesty about painful memories, especially her memories of a marriage that ended in divorce, but her poems do more than record her history of pain--the work reveals the process of her healing.... ( read more)
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Hard Night
by Christian Wiman
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Make no mistake: Christian Wiman's poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to "Being Serious,"the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions clearly, without sentimentality. A profound reverence... ( read more)
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Lampblack & Ash: Poems
by Simone Muench
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[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsession-in particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert Desnos-Muench's identification with a true self beyond the self's known truth is startling.-from the... ( read more)
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The Natural Law of Water
by Kathleen Culver
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Kathleen Culver's exquisitely-crafted poems will enchant you like beautiful music on a misty Florida night. They will move you from deep belly laughs to tears. Culver, a longtime champion for peace, the environment, and legendary Southern feminist has... ( read more)
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Lannan Translations Selection Series #6: Ithaca
by Aguirre And Osan
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This 50-page poem is a major contemporary Spanish poet's reworking of the Greek myth of Odysseus, but with one important alteration: This time the story is told from Penelope's perspective. Upon its original Spanish publication, Ithacaearned the 1971... ( read more)
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Lyrics of Lowly Life
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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One of the best-known volumes by a fascinating and complex writer, the first important black poet in the American canon. Popular in the early twentieth century Dunbar is today the subject of revived interest.... ( read more)
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Life & Death
by Robert Creeley
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In 1999 Robert Creeley received the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Both honors made specific note of his experimental style, his long influence, and his ongoing importance. Creeley's... ( read more)
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Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast: 120 Poems from the Subways and Buses
by Elise Paschen
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Featuring a Preface by William Louis-Dreyfus, this work is an all-new worthy successor to the immensely popular anthology of display placards in public transportation.... ( read more)
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The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
by Kenneth R Johnston
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A surprise-filled biography of a radical young poet whose fiery intellect revolutionized English poetry. Based on new research in government archives in England and France, school and university records, and intimate letters, THE HIDDEN WORDSWORTH is a... ( read more)
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Selected Poems: 1970-2005
by Floyd Skloot
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Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many
dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through
nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and
technically brilliant. He writes with equal and... ( read more)
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Early Auden
by Edward Mendelson
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Early Auden remains the most penetrating, detailed, and informative examination we have of the great work produced by the young W. H. Auden in EngLand before the war. Edward Mendelson writes with unrivaled knowledge of published texts, manuscripts... ( read more)
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Stalking Joy (Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry Series)
by Margaret Benbow
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A wild, wild ride. Fierce and chancy, passionate and bawdy.... ( read more)
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The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Harvey Shapiro
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The comprehensive collection of a master of the American modern form.... ( read more)
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Terra Incognita #09: Chaosmos
by Magda Carneci
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"Crneci's poetry is a carnival of sensory images, strong emotion and brilliant intellect. It is nevertheless moving, vibrantly accessible and necessary reading for anyone interested in contemporary writing in the whole southeastern European region today.... ( read more)
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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
by J C D Clark
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The first analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian??'s viewpoint.... ( read more)
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The Dark Age
by James Harpur
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James Harpurandrsquo;s fourth collection includes intimate responses to love, birth and death, and explores faith and vision in searching and unsentimental terms. His powerful poetry gives a new perspective on the travels and travails of early Irish... ( read more)
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