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What Is Amazing What Is Amazing Heather Christle Possessed of a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in <em>What Is Amazing</em> invent and navigate worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws … OL16308174W
Indivisible Indivisible Gail Bush,Randy Meyer "Anthology including over 50 works of poetry by various writers on social justice issues"-- OL16672531W
Latin American poets Latin American poets Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential Latin American poets such as Jorge Luis Borges, R… OL16968989W
Beat poets Beat poets Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential beat poets such as Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan,… OL16987350W
Aviaries Aviaries Yvonne C. Murphy Aviaries, by Yvonne C. Murphy, is a first collection of poetry determined to integrate the intellect with lyric intensity. Whether alighting on the public or the private--city streets, parks, apartme… OL17741475W
A glossary of chickens A glossary of chickens Gary J. Whitehead With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poe… OL19478681W
Don't Call Us Dead Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an a… OL19636242W
Calling a wolf a wolf Calling a wolf a wolf Kaveh Akbar "'The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection.' -Fanny … OL19715207W
Silencer Silencer Marcus Wicker "Welcome to Marcus Wicker's Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police… OL19719714W
English lyric poetry English lyric poetry Jonathan F. S. Post English Lyric Poetry is the first comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and r… OL1994808W
Breathturn into timestead Breathturn into timestead Paul Celan "Haunting poems from one of the twentieth century's groundbreaking poets Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created brilliant works of pure musicality and… OL19996804W
Madwoman Madwoman Shara McCallum "Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, ca… OL20045834W
The state of the art The state of the art David Lehman "The acclaimed annual, The Best American Poetry, is the most prestigious showcase of new poetry in the United States and Canada. Each year since the series began in 1988, David Lehman has contributed… OL22314014W
Ruben Darío centennial studies Ruben Darío centennial studies Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth Five lectures from a 1967 symposium celebratng Darío's centenary. OL24438946W
Love of the Soul Love of the Soul Esther Hen Grassiany Poetry helps to heal the soul. The poems in this book were created on the festive 'nights of light' of the Jewish Holidays of Hanukah and Lag Ba'Omer. The poems are imbued with love for all creation … OL26377037W
Religion and myth in T.S. Eliot's poetry Religion and myth in T.S. Eliot's poetry Scott Freer T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot's religious poetry, … OL27698148W
The development of the sonnet The development of the sonnet Michael R. G. Spiller Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically … OL3338850W
Romanticism and transcendence Romanticism and transcendence J. Robert Barth "Grounded in the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romanticism and Transcendence explores the religious dimensions of imagination in the Romantic tradition, both theoretically and in the poetry of … OL5063054W
Wordsworth in his major lyrics Wordsworth in his major lyrics Leon Waldoff "Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics explores the identity, role, and subjectivity of the speaker in Wordsworth's finest and best-known longer lyrics - "Tintern Abbey," "Resolution and Independence," "Ode… OL5358506W
The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI Daniel Karlin,John Woolford,Robert Browning Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins." OL634478W
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