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Revaluation
by F R Leavis  Publisher Comments One of the century's great critics, now back in print. A scrutiny of verse from Donne to Keats, showing the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure....
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Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
by John Hollander Publisher Comments In his classic text, Rhyme's Reason, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially...
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The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry
by Oxford Synopsis Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while...
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Charting the Here of There: French & American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002
by Guy Bennett Publisher Comments Charting the Here of There contains a world of French-American exchange--a world governed by back-and-forth, double conciousness, and the magic inherent in translation and mistranslation, as well as the fantastic, poetic mystery and possibility that...
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Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
by Helen Vendler Publisher Comments strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original....
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Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers, #13: Guido Gezelle: Flemish Poet-Priest
by Hermine J Van Nuis Publisher Comments In this first English-language study of one of Flanders' greatest poets, Hermine J. van Nuis presents an overview of Guido Gezelle's major poetry collections and focuses upon his evolution as a poet and thinker. The author places Gezelle's poetry within...
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Wild and Whirling Words (04 Edition)
by H.l. (ed.) Hix Publisher Comments What would poets say about each other's poems if they were really honest? The answer is in Wild and Whirling Words. Thirty-three of America's best and most important poets, diverse in gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, political...
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At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space
by James Von Der Heydt Publisher Comments From popular culture to politics to classic novels, quintessentially American texts take their inspiration from the idea of infinity. In the extraordinary literary century inaugurated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the lyric too seemed to encounter...
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
by Camille Paglia 
Publisher Comments Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some...
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A Sun Within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry
by Claire Chi-ah Lyu
Publisher Comments A sustained reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, that sees poetry as way of life at it most genuine....
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Whitman's Wild Children: Portraits of Thirteen Poets
by Neeli Cherkovski Synopsis In "Whitman's Wild Children", Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets -- Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and...
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A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life
by Herbert R Kohl Publisher Comments Encountering Poems Islands 0 for God's sake they are connected underneath They look at each other across the glittering sea some keep a low profile Some are cliffs The bathers think islands are separate like them Muriel Rukeyser's short poem could be...
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Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory
by Joan Brandt Publisher Comments By focusing on the problematic of mimesis—in its linguistic, psychoanalytical, and cultural incarnations—this book argues, in opposition to those who stress the political inadequacies of the French poststructuralists' "privileging" of...
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Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections
by Arielle Greenberg Publisher Comments Imagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman poet or not having a bookshelf filled with books written by living women poets. Luckily, young women poets...
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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
by Helen Vendler Publisher Comments When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with...
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Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader
by Dennis Brutus Publisher Comments "We in South Africa needed the support of the international community in our efforts to end the vicious system of racial oppression called apartheid. We had to have eloquent advocates to tell the world our story and persuade it to come to our assistance....
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Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960
by Alan Filreis Publisher Comments During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit—if not destroy—the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry...
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The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky
by Bob Perelman Publisher Comments "Most poets define poetry by creating it. Bob Perelman creates it by defining it, and is thus one step ahead of all the other poets under the sun, one step closer to colliding with Zeno's vanishing point, to merging coyote with road runner, to winning...
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Modern Visual Poetry
by Willard Bohn Publisher Comments Devoted to poetry that is designed for the viewer as much as for the reader, Modern Visual Poetry covers the entire twentieth century, from the initial experiments by Guillaume Apollinaire to those by various Concrete poets and members of the Lettrist...
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A Way of Happeningrbledown
by Fred Chappell Publisher Comments One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more...
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