Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The autobiography of a super-tramp	W. H. Davies	“A young poet tramped across America, crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as a cattleman, begged and peddled in England, developing meanwhile in the power to write with rare perception and beauty.” …	OL1092945W
The bread of time	Philip Levine	"Philip Levine's The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers - particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters, whose lives and work, Levine be…	OL121471W
The ticking is the bomb	Nick Flynn	A dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir about becoming a father in the age of terror.	OL15581748W
Now all roads lead to France	Matthew Hollis	Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with…	OL16302546W
Chaucer's Tale	Paul Strohm	In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he has today—far from it. The mi…	OL17072513W
Jacko Jacobus	Kwame Senu Neville Dawes	Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations. But when he has to flee Jamaica to escape his brother's wrath, he finds h…	OL1720282W
Pain, parties, work	Elizabeth Winder	In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees …	OL17311518W
The 5th Inning	E. Ethelbert Miller	Summary:The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Coming a decade after Fathering words: the making of an African American writer, this book finds Miller retur…	OL17397297W
The disappearance of the outside	Andrei Codrescu	"This cultural-literary-social critique examines the paradoxes of repression and artistic freedom in both totalitarian and democratic societies. Beginning with his Stalinist childhood and later exile…	OL17763W
Nearer the heart's desire	Robert D. Richardson	"Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by some eight-hundred years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous-- and ancient works of poetry in all existence"--Front ja…	OL17867988W
Lit	Mary Karr	The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suic…	OL18165256W
The Bright Hour	Nina Riggs	Riggs provides a memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' after her terminal cancer diagnosis.	OL19721897W
A carnival of losses	Arthur Morey,Donald Hall	"New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny, "* from the former poet laureate of the United States *(New York Times)"--	OL19748053W
Wilfred Owen	Guy Cuthbertson	"One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite…	OL19980136W
Ted Hughes	Jonathan Bate	"Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and eco…	OL20018528W
Lives of the poets	Michael Schmidt	A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. …	OL2004345W
Robert Lowell	Kay R. Jamison	"The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relation…	OL20047475W
Footprints	Margaret Fishback Powers	Margaret Fishback was a young woman searching for direction when she was inspired to write the poem "Footprints". The creation of the poem, its subsequent loss, and astonishing rediscovery are intert…	OL20309655W
Miss Lou	Mervyn Morris	"Louise Bennett Coverly (1919-2006), Miss Lou, has for decades represented the 'face' of Jamaican cultureAs a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and …	OL22306149W
Dickinson in her own time	Jane Donahue Eberwein,Cristanne Miller,Stephanie Farrar	"Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-kn…	OL22316012W