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Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics
by Johanna Drucker  Synopsis Johanna Drucker is among the foremost authorities on the history of alphabets, writing, artists' books, and visual poetry. This book is a compendium of Drucker's thought -- yet rather than anthologize from her numerous published books, Figuring the Word...
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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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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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The Art of the Poetic Line
by James Longenbach Synopsis The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes...
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps...
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
by Roger Housden Publisher Comments This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can...
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Catching Life by the Throat: How to Ready Poetry and Why with CD (Audio)
by Josephine Hart Publisher Comments This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life. Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief,...
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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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Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
by Richard M 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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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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Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
by Robert Crawford Publisher Comments A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing...
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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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Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (Approaches to Teaching)
by Patrick Cheney Synopsis 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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Rhyme's Reason : a Guide To English Verse (3RD 01 Edition)
by John Hollander Synopsis A survey of the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse. John Hollander illustrates each variation with a self-descriptive example. In this third edition, he adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has...
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Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses
by Peter Schakel Synopsis This wide-ranging introduction to poetry blends theoretical considerations with a thorough introduction to the elements of poetry, offering alternative perspectives from which to approach and engage with a poem....
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The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky
by Bob Perelman Publisher Comments A paradox: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Louis Zukofsky all wrote their central works to be masterpieces, synoptic views of the world that would change the very consciousness of the public. And yet these writings are so hard to read that...
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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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Sounds of Poetry : a Brief Guide (98 Edition)
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...
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What is Poetry?
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Synopsis Poetry. Having an aversion to the idea of discussing the "craft" of poetry or the "process" of creating a poem, Lawrence Ferlinghetti usually mumbles something about "It's a trade secret" when pressed on the subject. But "What is Poetry?" is the closest...
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Contributions in Women's Studies #161: Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers
by Mary E. Galvin Publisher Comments Galvin provides a critical look at the intersections between the development of "queer" consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D., one that places them in a continuum of...
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