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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A collection of over four hundred poems written in many parts of the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, including works by Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and John Updike, with brief biographies of each poet represented.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 63
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Aunt Carmen is impatient with cerebral notions of faith, but she knows her saints - their stories, their sorrows, and their joys. Through her they emerge: El Santo Nino, the mischievous Holy Child; the doting father, San Jose; and the bold Santa Maria Magdalena, whom Carmen imagines walking into church "in heels and short skirts." And in Carmen's prayers to them, she finds the words to tell her own story."--BOOK JACKET. "We know that Aunt Carmen,...
6) Usher: poems
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Provides poems concerned with time and memory--specifically, the time spanning from just before the 1930s to the present and the memory of each poem's speaker. Fairchild presents a vision of America and its embattled dreams and values.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Vanity corrupts the empires on the grand tour from ancient Rome to revolutionary Iran, from Europe in the Age of Reason to America in the Age of Television. William Logan's poems find Ovid in a London gentlemen's club, Romeo and Juliet in Florida, and the varnished splendors of religion and politics surviving at the seedy edge of culture. VAIN EMPIRES is breathtakingly intense in language and disturbing in its moral intelligence.
11) Brown: poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black, Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History"--A song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on Washington"--to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's...
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume Volume 80
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sibling Rivalry Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The reissue of Nickole Brown's debut-published ten years after it first appeared-holds just as much relevance and power today as it did a decade ago, and in this special revised edition are all of the poems that first came to light in 2007 along with some supplementary materials, including a discussion with the author and a craft guide geared towards survivors writing through their own trauma." (cover).
Author
Publisher
Ahsahta Press, Boise State University
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Carr obsessively researches intimate terrorism, looking everywhere from Whitman and Dickinson to lists of phobias and weapon-store catalogs for answers. This book is a dream-document both of light and innocence?babies and the urge to protect them?and of giving in to a wrenching darkness, where despair lies in the very fact that no single factor is to blame"--Amazon.com.
15) Dissolve
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry." --Library Journal Drawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, Dissolve...
16) Red doc>
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
18) blud
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud"--