Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Beautiful & Pointless Beautiful & Pointless David Orr "David Orr provides a riveting tour of poetry as it actually exists today. Orr argues that readers should accept the foreignness of poetry in the way that they accept the strangeness of any place to … OL15980168W
Shakespeare and the modern poet Shakespeare and the modern poet Neil Corcoran "Shakespeare is a major influence on poets writing in English, but the dynamics of that influence in the twentieth century have never been as closely analysed as they are in this important study. Mor… OL16959537W
Shadows Numberless Shadows Numberless Adam Fieled Shadows Numberless: Four Collections Of Critical Material by Adam Fieled encompasses two centuries of poetry and literature. Portions have appeared in Jacket Magazine, The Argotist Online, Tears in t… OL17062577W
Praying through poetry Praying through poetry Peggy Rosenthal x, 83 p. ; 19 cm OL19372842W
Poetry and the age Poetry and the age Randall Jarrell "Randall Jarrell was the critic whose taste defined American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1953 and has become a classic of Americ… OL2010190W
Twentieth century pleasures Twentieth century pleasures Robert Hass A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry. OL2200464W
The Modern Element The Modern Element Adam Kirsch 352 pages ; 22 cm OL5722058W
Flint on a bright stone Flint on a bright stone Kirsten Blythe Painter Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of “Tempered Modernism,” which blossomed in the first two decades of the twentieth cen… OL5836842W
Giving Their Word Giving Their Word Steven Ratiner "Based on a three-year series of interviews conducted by Steven Ratiner for the Christian Science Monitor, this book offers extended conversations with twelve of today's most influential poets. Publi… OL8855538W