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The Haiku Seasons Poetry of the Natural World
by William J. Higginson
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In a wonderfully lucid way, The Haiku Seasons presents the historical and modern Japanese usage of seasonal themes in poetry. It shows, as nothing else in the literature has done, the growing dialogue between poets in Japan and other countries. The ways... ( read more)
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Selected Translations
by Ted Hughes
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The late, great poet's version of poems ancient and modernKnown (with Philip Larkin) as the most distinctly English of the postwar British poets, Ted Hughes was a boundlessly curious reader and translator of poetry from other languages. This generous... ( read more)
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The Spirit Level: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
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The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His... ( read more)
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Homeland & Other Poems (Kraftgriots)
by Ogaga Ifowodo
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The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in December 1997. The author, representing Tanzania, was the Chair of the group of seventy seven. He here gives the background information on the negotiations and... ( read more)
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Tennyson's Mystical Poems
by Alfred Ten Tennyson
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The Coming of King Arthur; The Holy Grail; Pellas and Ettarre; The Passing of Arthur; The Higher Pantheism.... ( read more)
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Standing Around the Heart: Poems
by Gary Fincke
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Poems with a conversational tone and lyrical intensity.... ( read more)
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T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form
by Anthony Julius
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Of the many different kinds of anti-Semite, Eliot was the rarest: one who was able to place his anti-Semitism at the service of his art. Anthony Julius's highly acclaimed study looks both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semite discourse and... ( read more)
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Blueroads
by Peter Hughes
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This book brings together the best of Peter Hughes' poetry from the past 20 years. The poems trace and explore his fascination with painting, music, people and places -especially Italy, where he lived for several years. The powerful sequence "Paul Klee's... ( read more)
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The Wind Dog
by Tom Paulin
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An outstanding collection of poems by Tom Paulin, one of Britain's most original poets and literary critics "o chitterin chatterin platinum licht the bow shall be in the clouds and I will look upon it to remember the everlasting testament between God and... ( read more)
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The Endless Search: A Memoir
by David Ray
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David Ray's soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale -- encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive "uncles, " and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous... ( read more)
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Torch River
by Elizabeth Philips
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Philips takes us down into the swirling core of planetary energies, the central mystery of life itself. Sexual love, the wilderness, the births and deaths that connect them, the interior wilderness of desire and the sensual love of wild things, are her... ( read more)
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Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes
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With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her... ( read more)
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Minnesota Voices Project #90: Alchemy in the Bones: Poems
by William Reichard
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It's about what can be bent,'William Reichard writes in a poem called Bonsai.'These poems, too, are about the ways we're bent by experience: by loss and by desire, by love and difficulty. William Reichard's poems are beautifully open to the bent'in all... ( read more)
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Healing Earthquakes: A Love Story in Poems
by Jimmy Baca
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Combining a stunning lyrical intensity with a profound exploration of the human soul, Healing Earthquakes uses poetry to conjure a romance, from beginning to end. Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces us to a man and woman before they are acquainted and re... ( read more)
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays
by Czeslaw Milosz
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A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate. To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned... ( read more)
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Duino Elegies a Bilingual Edition
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and... ( read more)
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Far Side of the Earth: Poems
by Tom Sleigh
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Widely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his new collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship. In these poems, small things reveal large metaphysical and historical correspondences. In "Newsreel," for... ( read more)
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Catching Tigers in Red Weather
by Andrew Demcak
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Catching Tigers in Red Weather, winner of the three candles press open book award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage with a unique voice that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints.... ( read more)
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Miserable Miracle: Mescaline (New York Review Books Classics)
by Henri Michaux
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"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In "Miserable Miracle," the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a... ( read more)
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The Witness Ghost
by Tim Bowling
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Shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General's Award for Poetry.... ( read more)
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