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The Amputee's Guide to Sex
by Jillian Weise
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Tired of seeing "cripples" portrayed as asexual characters, Jillian Weise created this stunning lesson in desire and disease. The first section presents disability in a historical context, from the first "deaf and dumb" person granted the right to have... ( read more)
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Dylan Thomas
by Andrew Lycett
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This riveting, acclaimed account of the life of Dylan Thomas takes a poignant yet stirring look at the chaos of the poet's personal life and offers a reevaluation of the lyricism and experimentalism of his entire oeuvre of work.... ( read more)
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Rounding It Out: A Cycle of Sonnetelles
by Robert Pack
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Acclaimed by writers, critics, and readers from Robert Penn Warren to Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Pack is one of the most widely respected poets in America. Pack's newest collection, Rounding It Out, offers a lyric sequence exploring circularity as a... ( read more)
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Springing: New and Selected Poems
by Marie Ponsot
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From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new... ( read more)
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Only Companion (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Sam Hamill
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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent te rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual... ( read more)
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Theory of Devolution (National Poetry Series Books)
by David Groff
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With blazing wit and a searing language, David Groff writes fiercely of erosion and endurance in this stunning debut collection. Theory of Devolution resonates with the persistence of ruination, affectation, and the mysteries of the borders and... ( read more)
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Memory of the Fire: Selected Poems 1989-2000
by Justo Jorge Padron
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Justo Jorge Padrandoacute;n is one of Spainand#39;s leading poets. Born in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island, in 1943, he is among the most representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s. The brilliance of his metaphorical imagination provides... ( read more)
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Castaway
by Yvette Christianse
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In Castaway Yvette Christianse presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte's final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet's grandmother... ( read more)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Samuel Ta Coleridge
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In her introduction Heather Jackson, editor of this new collection of Coleridge's poetry, points to this poet as "one of the most fascinating minds in European intellectual history." Jackson's selection of his verse reveals that diversity and versatility... ( read more)
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Shulamith
by Julia Stein
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These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortunes, and victories of the twentieth century.... ( read more)
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New California Poetry #03: Selected Poems
by Fanny Howe
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One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event. Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit... ( read more)
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Figment
by Rebecca Wolff
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Winner of the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize, "Figment" "has a vivacity and edge which gives it immediate presence" (Eavan Boland).
What is a poem? "Figment" suggests myriad possible answers: a post-confession, a remnant lyric, an unerringly wistful... ( read more)
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Matter of Fact: Poems
by Eamon Grennan
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Eamon Grennan’s keen vision is “obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description” (The Irish Times) Don’t look back. Think Orpheus. Pillar of salt. One breath, then... ( read more)
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Geronimo After Kas-Ki-Yeh: Poems
by Rawdon Tomlinson
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This new collection of poems focuses on the later years of Geronimo, the famous Chiricahua Apache war shaman. After Geronimo's family is massacred by Mexicans in 1851, he craves revenge until his 1909 death in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Chiricahuans were held... ( read more)
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The End of the Poem (Oxford Lectures)
by Paul Muldoon
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In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War” (The Times Literary Supplement), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from... ( read more)
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Praise
by Robert Hass
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Hass links the poetic elements of the work song, the spiritual, of rhythm & blues and rap, and of poems written in Yiddish, in Chinese, and in Spanish. He hears the silence of the haiku in what becomes the spare and modernist. Through his gift for... ( read more)
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At the Palace of Jove: Poems
by Karl Kirchwey
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"Our favorite 'unsung' poet, " were the words Chapters Bookstore used when including Karl Kirchwey's The Engrafted Word among their 1998 favorite books. Now, in this new volume, Kirchwey -- whose work has garnered high praise from such poets as Richard... ( read more)
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Rhythm and Booze: Poems (National Poetry Series)
by Julie Kane
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Arranged in four parts--each associated with a particular Louisiana city--the poems in Rhythm & Booze trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts... ( read more)
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Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The Old Arcadia
by Philip Sidney
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Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his 'Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. A romantic story in the manner of Shakespeare's early comedies, the 'Old' Arcadia also includes over 70 poems in a variety... ( read more)
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A Cartload of Scrolls: 100 Poems in the Manner of T'Ang Dynasty Poet Han-Shan
by James P Lenfestey
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"These aren't translations of Han-Shan's poems; they're transmissionsof his spirit!"-Eric Utne, founder of Utne Reader "I love this book!"-Jim Moore In 1974, author James P. Lenfestey came upon the book Cold Mountain: 100 Poems of the T'ang Dynasty Poet... ( read more)
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