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Cavafy: A Biography
by Robert Liddell
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Refreshingly concise biography provides sympathetic analysis of many of the poet??'s best known... ( read more)
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Above the River: The Complete Poems
by James Wright
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One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his... ( read more)
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John Donne
by Dennis (edt) Enright
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This is a collection of poems of faith, love and revenge by a man with intense sexuality and an ardent belief in Christian doctrine.... ( read more)
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The People, Yes
by Carl Sandburg
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A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that... ( read more)
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Continuous Flame: A Tribute to Philip Whalen
by Michael Rothenburg and Suzi Winson
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Fish Drum Magazine has put out a special book/issue to honor Philip Whalen: poet, priest, and friend. It is co-edited by Michael Rothenberg and Suzi Winson. Contributors include Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Diane... ( read more)
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Human Nature: Poems
by Alice Anderson
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"Beware all those who enter here. Anderson's remarkable first book...is like an outcropping of hell--the reader is compelled by fascination and horror to keep reading...Anderson's life force is implicit in the language throughout these poems, objective... ( read more)
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Pushkin's Button
by Serena Vitale
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Pushkin's Button is an astonishing tour de force, a riveting narrative about the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to his death on January 27, 1837. At the same time, the book is an astute, original assessment of Pushkin's literary and national... ( read more)
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Wild Tongue
by Rebecca Seiferle
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"With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty . . . Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth."-Publishers Weekly Poet Rebecca Seiferle once said that "one should always read a poem as if... ( read more)
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Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY
by Jack Kerouac
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This newly-revised edition-originally published in 1973-of the haiku Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch jotted down on the road from San Francisco to New York in 1959, are dense, earthy incarnations of life on the road: "A coral colored Cadillac... ( read more)
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Men, Women, and Ghosts (Penguin Poets)
by Debora Greger
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New from Debora Gregeraaa special poet in every sensea ("Poetry") In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li... ( read more)
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They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems
by Quraysh Ali Lansana
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These poems trace the journeys of the great Black historical figure Harriet Tubman and her fugitives through the backwoods of America. The cruelty of slavery and Tubman's legend are made accessible to everyone, including younger readers... ( read more)
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton Paperbacks)
by Northrup Frye
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This book offers an explanation of Blake's thought and a commentary on his poetry. No effort has been made to deal at all adequately with Blake's biography or with his work as painter and engraver: a study of his relation to English literature is... ( read more)
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Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome: The Correspondence
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Spanning almost thirty years, a complete extant correspondence between the revered twentieth-century poet and the European intellectual traces the early days of their relationship and affair while offering insight into how they interacted as lovers... ( read more)
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Crux: The Letters of James Dickey
by James Dickey
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Entertaining and erudite, James Dickey's letters to such contemporaries as James Merrill, Ezra Pound, Anne Sexton, and William Styron reveal the fierce, complicated intellect of the man John Updike called "the high flyer of American poets." 20 photos.... ( read more)
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Words Brushed By Music: Twenty-five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series (Johns Hopkins, Poetry and Fiction)
by John T. Irwin
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Over the past twenty-five years, the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series has published thirty-one volumes of poetry, beginning in 1979 with John Hollander's Blue Wine and Other Poems. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish... ( read more)
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Poetry's Old Air (Poets on Poetry)
by Marianne Boruch
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A rich gathering of evocative essays that link literature and the world beyond it... ( read more)
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Women of America: Poems
by Charlie Smith
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A book-length meditation on the mysteries of what drives the heart by one of America's most distinguished poets. CHARLIE SMITH draws the poems in this volume from the tussle and cry of love, in remembrance of love's journey from fantasy to fact and back... ( read more)
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From Scratch
by Clayton Eshleman
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"In extending the 'bridge' of proprioception from Olson to Artaud, from Reich to Ferenczi, from Kundalini to Cro-Magnon", wrote critic Kenneth Warren in American book Review, "Eshleman's work is a dazzling attempt to restore man's capacity to understand... ( read more)
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Poetry From the Dark Side Volume 2
by Kimberly A Eddleman
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What haunts the human soul? What lies on the dark side, just beyond sanity? For is not insanity only a thought away? Bound within these pages, printed with black ink, members from the family of PoetryPages.com offer a hint, a taste, a morsel of what... ( read more)
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Judge
by Vincent Katz
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The title of this collaborative political intervention can be read as a noun, a command or both: Judge. Vincent Katz and Wayne Gonzales share a horror of current events, and have decided it's time to speak up. Katz is a writer and translator, the author... ( read more)
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