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The Blood Countess, Erzébet Bathory of Hungary (1560-1614)
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Robert Peters |
The author reenactment of the life and the account of Countess Erzebet Bathory of the Hungarian Bathory monarchy who bathed in the blood of over six-hundred virgin to maintain eternal youth. This ca… |
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The drowned man to the fish
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Robert Peters |
Here, in a Confessional vein reminiscent of Robert Lowell, Peters resolves the pain of a difficult divorce by the creation of original, surreal imagery which seems to distance his pain. In the poem … |
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The gift to be simple
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Robert Peters |
Here , the story of Mother Ann Lee's (Founder of the Shaker Religion) childhood in Manchester, England; her imprisonment for blasphemy: her visions; and her departure for America are all told in poet… |
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Hawker
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Robert Peters |
'Hawker' was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Alice Faye di Castagnola Prize. Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875) was Vicar of Morwenstowe in Cornwall, England. He lived for over forty years in… |
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Haydon
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Robert Peters |
**HAYDON**, the fourth of Peters' persona books to be published by Unicorn, is a series of monologues by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1776-1846), the tragic British painter of vast history pictures and fr… |
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Holy cow
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Robert Peters |
This book is unique in Peters' oeuvre for its irreverence. The tone recalls the nonsense verse of Edward Lear and Ogden Nash. The topics include the birth of angels, the nature of poetry, and innova… |
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Kane
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Robert Peters |
Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) was the indefatigable American popular hero who, afflicted with rheumatic fever, led two expeditions to the Arctic searching for the English explorer, Sir John Franklin. … |
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Ludwig of Bavaria
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Robert Peters |
Robert Peters' highly acclaimed performance version is included with the original poems. These poems themselves have been revised from the earlier edition **PICNIC IN THE SNOW**(New Rivers, 1982). Th… |
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Makars' dozens
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Paul Trachtenberg,Robert Peters,Robert Peters,Barbara Hauk |
**MAKARS' DOZENS** stands for a baker's dozen meaning sandwiched between the covers of this book you get the verses of three distinctive voices: poet Robert Peters(the best known among three), Paul … |
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The picnic in the snow
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Robert Peters |
This is another volume of several of Robert Peters' personae books. This long narrative & mono-logic work covers the life of Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria with his love of building several castles, hi… |
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Snapshots for a serial killer
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Robert Peters |
The discerning reader will soon be aware of connections between author's fictionalized killer and the notorious serial murderer, Randy Kraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Steven_Kraft who is cur… |
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The sow's head & other poems
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Robert Peters |
In his second book poems, Peters sees human shadows in a world of Blakean monsters, those he earlier confronted in SONGS FOR A SON, the elegy for his small son Richard. Stunning is a suite inspired … |
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Celebrities
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Robert Peters |
Special Limited edition chapbook designed by Bay artist Mary Ann Hayden. Parody poetry honoring Marlene Dietrich, Robert Mitchum, Gertrude Stein & Margaret Dumont (the dowager of the Marx Brothers… |
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Victorians on literature and art
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Robert Peters |
A source book on Victorians on literature and art on what they thought constituted aestheticism. Writers and artists included in this book Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Rossetti, Tennyson, Whistler, Wat… |
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Breughel's Pig
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Robert Peters |
This volume of poems is a gathering of his more experimental works, and contains selections from earlier works such as HOLY COW, THE DROWNED MAN TO THE FISH, THE POET AS ICE-SKATER, THE SOW'S HEAD, C… |
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Bronchial Tangle, Heart System
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Robert Peters |
This book, handsomely published, was never distributed. The organizing event is a canoe trip Peters' took as he prepared to go to the Army in 1943. The superbly beautiful Wisconsin wilderness area … |
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