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Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo Publisher Comments Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called 'one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,' was that rare phenomenon'"a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Townis Hugo"s classic collection of lectures, essays,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perrines Sound and Sense by Laurence Perrine Publisher Comments Assigned more than any other introductory poetry text on the market! Features -- Known for its exemplary poetry selections, Perrine's Sound and Sense is written for the student who is beginning a serious study of poetry. -- Discusses the elements of... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments "Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture-the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh Publisher Comments Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Wooldridge Publisher Comments Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of a Poem (Norton Anthology) by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poetry in Person (10 Edition) by Alexander Neubauer Publisher Comments A remarkable gathering of the country’s premier poets in conversation about their work over twenty-five years and the processes behind their masterpieces—including their actual drafts—this unique book, now in paperback, “reminds... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Princeton Publisher Comments "A valuable, convenient edition of the recent New Princeton Encyclopedia is intended for the general reader. Its emphasis is most appealingly on poetry--the strongly held feelings that 'poetry matters.'"--Theodore Weiss, Editor, Quarterly Review of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetry Reader's Toolkit by Marc Polonsky Publisher Comments The Poetry Reader's Toolkit was written to be just that: a toolkit to help students read and understand poetry. Students will learn how relevant and accessible poetry can be by walking through a wide variety of poems in a straightforward, conversational... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck Publisher Comments Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Mind and American Literature Mind and American Literature) by Kristen Case Publisher Comments Wittgenstein wrote that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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Anglo-jewish Poetry From Isaac Rosenberg To Elaine Feinestein by Peter Lawson Synopsis This is the first book-length study to survey the phenomenon of twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish poetry. It proceeds by reading established Anglo-Jewish poets against the grain of conventional thinking about English verse. For example, rather than... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures by James Fenton Publisher Comments Sharp-eyed critiques and appreciations of the essential poets of our time. James Fenton is unique among contemporary writers in having achieved equal distinction as a poet and -- in his reportage and criticism -- as a master of trenchant prose. What is... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Lines: An Index to the Last Lines of Poetry by Victoria Kline Publisher Comments This essential companion to Granger's Index to Poetry fills a long-felt need among reference librarians, teachers, and scholars for a comprehensive index to the last lines of English-language poetry. It indexes approx. 174,000 poems written in English or... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Yeats and Violence (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) by Michael Wood Publisher Comments The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry, seen... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Poem That Changed America: Howl Fifty Years Later by Jason Shinder Publisher Comments A tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion. In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia Book News Annotation Published by Graywolf Press, 2402 University Avenue, Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55114. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blueprints: Bringing Poetry Into Communities by Katharine Coles Publisher Comments How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Katharine Coles and a cadre of poets and artists provide this essential guide and inspiration... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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