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A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and Poetry
by John Allison  Publisher Comments W e usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000 (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Justin Quinn Publisher Comments Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of...
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A Gallery to Play to: The Story of the Mersey Poets
by Phil Bowen Publisher Comments In the summer of 1967, Tony Richardson of Penguin Books took a chance. Then Penguin’s poetry editor, Richardson devoted the tenth volume of the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series to three unknown writers from Liverpool: Adrian Henri...
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Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
by Reginald Shepherd Publisher Comments "Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who...
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How To Interpret Poetry 2ND Edition
by Arco Publisher Comments Great as do-it-yourself starters, pocket references, or exercise books, these 3 new Step-by-Step volumes help students, business professionals, and anyone keen on self-improvement become more productive in school, work, and everyday life. Written in...
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My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery
by Stephen Berg Publisher Comments Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those...
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Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)
by Lorenzo Thomas Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. African American Studies. New to SPD. This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century. Written with intelligence and humor, this...
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Reading the Sphere: The Landscape of Contemporary American Poetry
by Richard Silberg Publisher Comments Richard Silberg analyzes the various styles of in-vogue poetry, from New Critical poets like Anthony Hecht and Language poets like Richard Silliman, to academic poets such as Anne Carson and "barbarian" poets who perform in interactive poetry slams. Each...
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Juniper Fuse
by Clayton Eshleman Publisher Comments A commanding meditation on the development of early human imagination....
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How To Read a Poem (07 Edition)
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader....
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The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry
by Ellen Greene Publisher Comments The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene reexamines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the...
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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand Review "Imagine — and witness — public space that is produced by us. In Landscapes of Dissent, Sand and Boykoff remind us that there is a long history and ripe presence of intersections between poetry and politics. Don Mitchell is quoted in these...
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An Introduction to English Poetry
by James Fenton Publisher Comments A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poets James Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In...
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Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics)
by Michael Eskin Publisher Comments Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three outstanding poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad...
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The Offense of Poetry (Robert B. Heilman Book)
by Hazard Adams Book News Annotation Adams (comparative literature emeritus, U. of Washington) holds that poetry is open to attack because it opposes binary oppositions such as form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion, but thereby also achieves its cultural value. Taking a...
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Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History
by Peter Viereck Publisher Comments A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought not common sense but inspired, electric common sense, This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is...
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Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry
by David Baker Publisher Comments An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry"<BR>""We are delighted when we recognize patterns and continuities, as we are delighted by a new poem's radical adjustment...
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Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lec #13: The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics
by Gerald L Bruns Publisher Comments "Poetry is philosophically interesting," writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers...
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ABC Cat
by Harold B Segel Publisher Comments In this companion to ABC Dog, there are happy cats, party cats, jazz cats, ten-gallon-hat cats, queen cats, rub-my-belly cats, wet cats, extreme cats--Just about every kind of cat for every kind of cat fancier. Bold and bright and always hilarious, this...
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Lives of the Poets
by Michael Schmidt Synopsis This is the story of poetry, from the 14th century to the present day. The author surveys the rise of English poetry and the language itself from the Black Death to Paul Muldoon and Thom Gunn. Each chapter relates the poet's life and work to the...
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