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Triggering Town : Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (79 Edition)
by Richard Hugo  Publisher Comments The Triggering Town is hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all 'directed toward helping the [the writer] with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.' Anyone, from the beginning...
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Ephelia
by Maureen E. Mulvihill Publisher Comments This large-format facsimile edition, with extended Introduction, bibliography, textual notes, and portraits, reproduces the extant works, to date, of the 17th-century poet, 'Ephelia'. By tradition, the identity of 'Ephelia' has been a long-contested...
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Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford
by Judith Kitchen Publisher Comments An excellent introduction for readers coming to Stafford for the first time and a valuable overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his poetry, this book offers the best single guide to one of the most respected and celebrated...
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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...
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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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The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions (Princeton Essays in Literature)
by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments "A first-rate piece of work. I can't imagine anyone capable of reading this book and not learning from it."--Hugh...
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The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments In Adam Sisman's previous book, the award-winning Boswell's Presumptuous Task, he inventively recounted the making of the most distinguished biography in the English language, James Boswell's Life of Johnson. Now, with The Friendship, Sisman details the...
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Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems
by Joy Katz Publisher Comments Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer’ s Dark Horses joyfully rediscovers dozens of these poems...
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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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Poet's Choice
by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry....
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Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
by Christian Wiman Publisher Comments "Blazing high style"is how The New York Timesdescribes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor transforming Poetry, the country's oldest literary magazine. Ambition and Survivalis a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a...
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Poet's Choice
by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called "Poet's Choice" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry; Poet'...
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The Poetry of War
by James Anderson Winn Publisher Comments Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while mourning the victim; they honor the dead while raising deep questions about the meaning of honor. Poets...
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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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Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets: Authoritative Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
by Hugh Maclean Publisher Comments This volume offers an abundant and representative selection of the verse of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets....
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The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry, 2 Volumes
by Randall Huff and Burt Kimmelman and Temple Cone Book News Annotation Prepared with high school and college students in mind, this two-volume reference presents some 1,100 signed entries ranging in length from 500 to approximately 3,500 words, on writers, individual works, themes, genres, movements, terms, and...
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Death To the Death of Poetry
by Donald Hall Publisher Comments A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry....
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Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry (Under Discussion)
by Bruce (edt) Weigl Publisher Comments Charles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart from his contemporaries by a particularly inclusive and worldly vision, his is a poetic voice singular in...
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Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics
by M Jim Killingsworth Publisher Comments How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman's...
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New Directions Paperbook #355: Gerard Manley Hopkins,
by Kenyon Critics Publisher Comments The larger part of this classic symposium on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was originally assembled as a special number of The Kenyon Review to celebrate in 1944 the centenary of the poet's birth, and then published in the New Directions 'Makers of...
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