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Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780395822890
This second book of poems by a powerful, compassionate, and fiercely intelligent poet bravely explores the ways in which we humans encounter mortality: the assaults of disease and bodily harm, the cruel inequities of material and psychic well-being, domestic treachery, self-slaughter, failures of mind. Linda Gregerson's work emphasizes the resourcefulness of the human spirit, the intelligence of t
Author: Caddel, Richard (EDT)/ Quartermain, Peter (EDT)
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN : 9780819522580
When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry movement in the UK, inspired in large measure by the work of such significant mentors as Basil Bunting and J. H. Prynne. There is growing interest in this work in the United States - as alternative American
Author: Whitman, Walt
Publisher : New York University Press
ISBN : 9780814794289
Edited by Floyd StovallThis two-volume set proves that Whitmans prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Volume I: Specimen Days, originally written and published as newspaper dispatches, is a collection of Whitmans on-the-spot notes of his experiences as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals in and around Washington during the Civil War. It contains, too, his nature studi
Author: Garin, Marita (EDT)
Publisher : McFarland & Company
ISBN : 9780786434299
Author: M. F. Korn
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780972959841
A collection of four short novels/long novellas by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic whores, abused robots, Lolitas, conmen, robber barons, oilfield and nuclear blue collar white trash, schizophrenic aliens, video oulaws, rednecks, thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants and good country people all carving out a piece of desperate
Author: Sondra Kathryn Wilson;Modern Library
Publisher : Random House
ISBN : 9780375753794
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance In 1923, the Urban League's Opportunity magazine made its first appearance. Spearheaded by the noted sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it became, along with the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine, one of the vehicles that drove the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance. As a way of attracting writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Johnson conducted
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Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780971139183
The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets.Edited by Carlota Caulfield and Jaime D. Parra.Introduction by Jaime D. Parra.The present book, is dedicated to a group of Spanish and Spanish-American poets, all women, who for one reason or another have Barcelona as their point of reference. They write in Spanish or Catalan and are tightly linked, despite differences in thei
Author: Herb Boyd
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN : 9781400046812
No neighborhood in America evokes history and culture like Harlem. From its humble beginnings as a farming community and country retreat for the rich, Harlem grew to international prominence as a mecca of black art and society, then fell from grace, becoming stereotyped as a crime-ridden slum that symbolized urban ills everywhere. But during each of these phases and all the ones in between, Harlem
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521312646
This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Morike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Brecht, Celan, and Enzensberger. The aim of the volume is to dispel whatever fears student
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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781417913688
1930. Curtiss writes: An anthology should be its own justification-a garland of flowers; of olive, cypress and palm. This anthology excludes poems of any writer born after 1850. A date is, of course, merely a symbol, and I might more accurately have chosen 1869. Be that as it may, a definite change in attitude towards death, and consequently in elegiac poetry, took place after the publication of T
Author: Bevan, Linda Rose ;Cullimore, Owen Robert
Publisher : Swirl
ISBN : 9781845491079
This book of Poetry is unique in respect of the story behind the creation of the verses contained herein. Linda and Owen first met after 46 years in October 2004 and have been close as sister and brother ever since even though they are actually half brother and sister. Linda, an accomplished poet in her own right, introduced her brother to the art of Poetry at that time and since then they have cr
Author: Clark, Sam ;McKibben, Brent
Publisher : Lulu Press
ISBN : 9781411688018
What is Liquid Fiction? An anthology. A mash-up of genres and mediums. A mixture of ideas to produce a fiction that's smooth. Prose with kick. A more stimulating buzz. Entertainment for the Third Eye. A stream of consciousness, concentrated. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: SHORT STORIES- All genres and ideas rearranged for new crescendo and tempo, like an orchestra of fiction. P
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN : 9780813517919
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflect
Author: Ramazani, Jahan (EDT)/ Ellmann, Richard (EDT)/ O'Clair, Robert (EDT)
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN : 9780393977912
The most acute rendering of an era''s sensibility is its poetry, wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry-now available in two pap
Author: Reynolds Price
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN : 9780684860022
The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price''s accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, and The Use of Fire -- and adds a new volume, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, eighty-five more recent poems t
Author: Bratton, Marietta W.
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595371242
I Will Bear This Scar explores the complex issue of childlessness through the power of poetry. Women in need of healing and emotional connections with other women will be transformed by these extraordinary voices. Poet Marietta W. Bratton compiled this compelling poetry anthology, which includes the work of more than forty women who have struggled with their childlessness. I Will Bear This Scar of
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292770713
In this collection, Esther Raizen explores the significance and value of Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years. The anthology includes the works of many poets, some as well known as Nathan Altherman and Yehudah Amichai and others less known. The poems, presented in both English and Hebrew, depict war as viewed by the soldier, as refl
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN : 9780813519999
The 31 short stories and 108 poems in this anthology represent a literary history of English writing in the Philippines, from its introduction at the turn of the century to the present. These works belong to the river of Philippine literary tradition, which includes, among others, literatures in Tagalog, Visayan, Spanish, and Ilokano. The works here contain images drawn from different social strat
Author: Ben And Carrie Pinkard
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595282296
In the spring of the year 2001, Ben and Carrie Pinkard, aged six and eight, asked their grandmother to help them write poems. Her reply was a resounding, Yes. What happened when this trio met on Wednesday afternoons for five consecutive months to explore and make poems makes up the content of this book. At each meeting poems were read a loud (as all poems should be); the children were guided into
Author: Walker, Frank X. (EDT)
Publisher : Wind Publications
ISBN : 9781893239630
A multi-cultural anthology of modern poetry.
The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
Author: Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780395822890
This second book of poems by a powerful, compassionate, and fiercely intelligent poet bravely explores the ways in which we humans encounter mortality: the assaults of disease and bodily harm, the cruel inequities of material and psychic well-being, domestic treachery, self-slaughter, failures of mind. Linda Gregerson's work emphasizes the resourcefulness of the human spirit, the intelligence of t
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Author: Caddel, Richard (EDT)/ Quartermain, Peter (EDT)Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN : 9780819522580
When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry movement in the UK, inspired in large measure by the work of such significant mentors as Basil Bunting and J. H. Prynne. There is growing interest in this work in the United States - as alternative American
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Prose Works 1892: Volume I: Speciman Days
Author: Whitman, Walt Publisher : New York University Press
ISBN : 9780814794289
Edited by Floyd StovallThis two-volume set proves that Whitmans prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.Volume I: Specimen Days, originally written and published as newspaper dispatches, is a collection of Whitmans on-the-spot notes of his experiences as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals in and around Washington during the Civil War. It contains, too, his nature studi
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Southern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets
Author: Garin, Marita (EDT)Publisher : McFarland & Company
ISBN : 9780786434299
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All the Mutant Trash in All the Galaxies
Author: M. F. KornPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780972959841
A collection of four short novels/long novellas by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic whores, abused robots, Lolitas, conmen, robber barons, oilfield and nuclear blue collar white trash, schizophrenic aliens, video oulaws, rednecks, thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants and good country people all carving out a piece of desperate
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The Opportunity Reader; Selections from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine
Author: Sondra Kathryn Wilson;Modern LibraryPublisher : Random House
ISBN : 9780375753794
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance In 1923, the Urban League's Opportunity magazine made its first appearance. Spearheaded by the noted sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it became, along with the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine, one of the vehicles that drove the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance. As a way of attracting writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Johnson conducted
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The Other Poetry of Barcelona
Author: Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780971139183
The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets.Edited by Carlota Caulfield and Jaime D. Parra.Introduction by Jaime D. Parra.The present book, is dedicated to a group of Spanish and Spanish-American poets, all women, who for one reason or another have Barcelona as their point of reference. They write in Spanish or Catalan and are tightly linked, despite differences in thei
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The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century
Author: Herb BoydPublisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN : 9781400046812
No neighborhood in America evokes history and culture like Harlem. From its humble beginnings as a farming community and country retreat for the rich, Harlem grew to international prominence as a mecca of black art and society, then fell from grace, becoming stereotyped as a crime-ridden slum that symbolized urban ills everywhere. But during each of these phases and all the ones in between, Harlem
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German Poetry: An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger
Author: Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521312646
This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Morike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Brecht, Celan, and Enzensberger. The aim of the volume is to dispel whatever fears student
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Olive, Cypress and Palm an Anthology of Love and Death
Author: Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781417913688
1930. Curtiss writes: An anthology should be its own justification-a garland of flowers; of olive, cypress and palm. This anthology excludes poems of any writer born after 1850. A date is, of course, merely a symbol, and I might more accurately have chosen 1869. Be that as it may, a definite change in attitude towards death, and consequently in elegiac poetry, took place after the publication of T
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Brother and Sister - Together in Verse
Author: Bevan, Linda Rose ;Cullimore, Owen Robert Publisher : Swirl
ISBN : 9781845491079
This book of Poetry is unique in respect of the story behind the creation of the verses contained herein. Linda and Owen first met after 46 years in October 2004 and have been close as sister and brother ever since even though they are actually half brother and sister. Linda, an accomplished poet in her own right, introduced her brother to the art of Poetry at that time and since then they have cr
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Liquid Fiction Volume One: Have You Experienced?
Author: Clark, Sam ;McKibben, Brent Publisher : Lulu Press
ISBN : 9781411688018
What is Liquid Fiction? An anthology. A mash-up of genres and mediums. A mixture of ideas to produce a fiction that's smooth. Prose with kick. A more stimulating buzz. Entertainment for the Third Eye. A stream of consciousness, concentrated. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: SHORT STORIES- All genres and ideas rearranged for new crescendo and tempo, like an orchestra of fiction. P
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American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
Author: Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN : 9780813517919
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflect
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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Author: Ramazani, Jahan (EDT)/ Ellmann, Richard (EDT)/ O'Clair, Robert (EDT)Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN : 9780393977912
The most acute rendering of an era''s sensibility is its poetry, wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry-now available in two pap
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The Collected Poems
Author: Reynolds PricePublisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN : 9780684860022
The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price''s accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, and The Use of Fire -- and adds a new volume, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, eighty-five more recent poems t
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I Will Bear This Scar: Poems of Childless Women
Author: Bratton, Marietta W. Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595371242
I Will Bear This Scar explores the complex issue of childlessness through the power of poetry. Women in need of healing and emotional connections with other women will be transformed by these extraordinary voices. Poet Marietta W. Bratton compiled this compelling poetry anthology, which includes the work of more than forty women who have struggled with their childlessness. I Will Bear This Scar of
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No Rattling of Sabers: An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry
Author: Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292770713
In this collection, Esther Raizen explores the significance and value of Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years. The anthology includes the works of many poets, some as well known as Nathan Altherman and Yehudah Amichai and others less known. The poems, presented in both English and Hebrew, depict war as viewed by the soldier, as refl
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Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English
Author: Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN : 9780813519999
The 31 short stories and 108 poems in this anthology represent a literary history of English writing in the Philippines, from its introduction at the turn of the century to the present. These works belong to the river of Philippine literary tradition, which includes, among others, literatures in Tagalog, Visayan, Spanish, and Ilokano. The works here contain images drawn from different social strat
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A Fish! Don't You Wish
Author: Ben And Carrie PinkardPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595282296
In the spring of the year 2001, Ben and Carrie Pinkard, aged six and eight, asked their grandmother to help them write poems. Her reply was a resounding, Yes. What happened when this trio met on Wednesday afternoons for five consecutive months to explore and make poems makes up the content of this book. At each meeting poems were read a loud (as all poems should be); the children were guided into
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America! What's My Name ?
Author: Walker, Frank X. (EDT)Publisher : Wind Publications
ISBN : 9781893239630
A multi-cultural anthology of modern poetry.
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