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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This new, compact 'Selected Poems' offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power.
8) Blowout
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954--'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the 'crazy wisdom' of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love...
11) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century poet Denise Levertov, composed over the course of six decades.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The collected poems of a native of Oregon. In Venice, he writes: "The gondolier handed you a rose. Took us up one canal and then another. We glided past Casanova's palace, the palace of the Rossi family, palaces belonging to the Baglioni, the Pisani, and Sangallo. Flooded. Stinking."
Author
Series
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories "Van"...
16) Poetry in motion
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is an anthology that celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding in 1972, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites Press staff and board-past and present-to help curate a retrospective"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past: these three books are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Published here in one volume, they include many of Galway Kinnell's best-loved and most-anthologized poems, such as "The Porcupine", "The Bear", "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps", "St. Francis and the Sow", "Fergus Falling", "The Olive Wood Fire", "Prayer", and "The Fundamental Project of Technology"....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
"This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cosmic Connections continues Taylor's exploration of Romantic and post-Romantic responses to disenchantment and innovations in language.Reacting to the fall of cosmic orders that were at once metaphysical and...
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