Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The 5th Inning 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
Far-fetched Far-fetched Devin Johnston "A new collection from one of contemporary American poetry's finest craftsmen Through birdcalls and ancient songs, rain patter and a child's scribble, the poems in Far-Fetched "sound the empty space … OL17906642W
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
Pink mist Pink mist Owen Sheers "From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, th… OL19717472W
Parallax Parallax Sinéad Morrissey "A T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from one of Ireland's major contemporary poets PARALLAX: (Astron.) Apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of an object, caused by actual… OL19755438W
The divine springtime The divine springtime Chris Rowan Grainger,Juliet Grainger For those moments of tension, when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched. This book uses short quotes from many spiritual and poetic sources to restore, revive and reassure. Among these quotes th… OL19843822W
This time This time Robert Gibbons 216 pages of prose poetry on politics, music (Bach and Coltrane), eros, art (Goya and van Gogh), philosophy (Nietzsche and Levinas), and the quotidian (daily bread & news that stays news). OL24302656W
Ruben Darío centennial studies Ruben Darío centennial studies Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth Five lectures from a 1967 symposium celebratng Darío's centenary. OL24438946W
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Mordecai Marcus The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background -- all to help you gain greater insight into great works … OL4478323W
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
Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Jane Dowson "This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity … OL5732986W
Green Squall Green Squall Jay Hopler Jay Hopler's *Green Squall* is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Glück observes in her foreword, “Green Squall begins and ends in the garden”; however, Hopler… OL5832336W