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Book of Forms a Handbook of Poetics 3RD Edition
by Lewis Turco  Publisher Comments Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users....
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #149: From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century
by Jennifer Ashton Publisher Comments Jennifer Ashton develops important new ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences....
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Exaltation of Forms Contemporary : Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (02 Edition)
by Annie Finch Publisher Comments Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the "haiku" to rap music--and trace their...
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The Resistance to Poetry
by James Longenbach Publisher Comments Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it...
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The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Avant-Garde and Modernism)
by Marjorie Perloff Publisher Comments Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single", or can it accommodate the "impurities" Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions to which Marjorie Perloff...
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Break, Blow, Burn
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of...
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Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
by Richard M., M.d. (edt) Berlin Synopsis Poets on Prozac shatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. The sixteen...
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Ten Poems to Set You Free
by Roger Housden Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138)....
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The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in...
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Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry
by Dennis Odriscoll Publisher Comments "One of the best-read men in the Western world"is how Poetry Reviewdescribes Irish poet-critic Dennis O'Driscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out...
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Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)
by Marjorie Perloff Publisher Comments "The only way to get a poem, Marjorie Perloff reminds us, is to read it, word for word, line by line. As we have come to expect, this book is learned, provocative and illuminating, a joyful celebration of the pleasures of the text, and a passionate...
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Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (Approaches to Teaching)
by Patrick Cheney Publisher Comments Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text....
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Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters)
by Jay Parini Publisher Comments Poetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the...
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20th Century Pleasures
by Robert Hass Publisher Comments Winner of the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, this now classic collection of essays focuses on three often-overlooked elements of contemporary poetry: its depth of feeling and imagination; its high degree of often-concealed craft...
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Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Reading Women Writing)
by Yopie Prins Synopsis Contributors here suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. The book covers a range of time, geography, and genre, considering poets from antiquity to the present and drawing on a...
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The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England
by Kevin Pask Publisher Comments The historical construction of authorship is of enormous interest to scholars and critics. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author--the literary biography or "life of the poet"--has received scant attention. In The Emergence of...
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Green Thoughts, Green Shades
by Jonathan F S Post Publisher Comments Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a collection of essays by eminent contemporary poets on the early modern lyric of the seventeenth century....
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By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry
by Molly Mcquade Publisher Comments Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In "By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry," contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the...
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Arco How to Interpret Poetry (Arco How to Interpret Poetry)
by Laurie E Rozakis Publisher Comments Helps students understand and enjoy the creative power of poetry....
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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: Poetics Commun (Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book)
by Margaret Beissinger Publisher Comments Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India....
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