Category: Poetry

100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits

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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : January 2008

Seller ID: 53779

ISBN-13: 9780446568807

Binding: Hardcover

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Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660?1810

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Publisher: Yale University Press : March 2005

Seller ID: 71778

ISBN-13: 9780300107579

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Bringing together more than 400 poems and poetic excerpts on slavery by writers both famous and unknown, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of slavery in the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world."The most definitive collection of anti-slavery sentiment in verse yet compiled, essential reading for historians and literary critics alike. . . . A major contribution."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University"An astounding literary and editorial achievement."--David Blight, Yale University"Comprehensive. . . . The illuminating introduction . . . sets forth, economicall...
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Come Together: Imagine Peace: Poems (Harmony Anthology Series, 6)

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Publisher: Bottom Dog Press : November 2008

Seller ID: 77586

ISBN-13: 9781933964225

Binding: Trade Paperback

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100 poets voice their concern and vision for peace. Poems of Witness & Elegy, Exhortation & Action, Reconciliation, Shared Humanity, Wildness & Home, Ritual & Vigil, Meditation & Prayer. Precedents: Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, Cavafy, Millay, Patchen, Rexroth, Shapiro, Lowell, Creeley, Rukeyser, Ginsberg, Levertov, Lorde, Stafford, Jordan, Amichai, Darwish Contemporaries: Abinader, Ali, Bass, Berry, Bauer, Berrigan, Bly, Bodhr�n, Bradley, Brazaitis, Bright, Bryner, Budbill, Cervine, Charara, Cording, Cone, Crooker, Daniels, di Prima, Davis, Dougherty, Ellis, Espada, Estes, Ferlinghetti,...
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Good Poems for Hard Times

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Publisher: Penguin Books : August 2006

Seller ID: 71701

ISBN-13: 9780143037675

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Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as Such As It Is More or Less and Let It Spill. From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the pow...
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Here's to the land: A celebration of 60 years by the N.C. Poetry Society

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Publisher: The Society : January 1992

Seller ID: 39122

ISBN-13: 9780963352903

Binding: Hardcover

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Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure

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Publisher: New World Library : December 2003

Seller ID: 71674

ISBN-13: 9781577314455

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In 1997, sex therapist and marriage counselor Wendy Maltz, author of the Sexual Healing Journey and coauthor of Private Thoughts, compiled Passionate Hearts, an anthology of "poems that inspire and celebrate healthy sexual intimacy; poems in which heart connection was at the core of the sexual experience." In Intimate Kisses, Maltz follows on the success of Passionate Hearts with a new anthology of poetry that continues her celebration of healthy sexuality and, in the process, turns up the heat. Intimate Kisses revels in what may be life's greatest mystery, through some of richest, most celebr...
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Italian Poetry, 1960-1980: From Neo to Post Avant-Garde

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Publisher: Small Pr Distribution : November 1982

Seller ID: 28515

ISBN-13: 9780880310604

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Man in the Poetic Mode

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Publisher: Mcdougal Littrell and Co. : January 1971

Seller ID: 71777

ISBN: B001UBTTSW

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Matsuo Bash?'s Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : June 2007

Seller ID: 43005

ISBN-13: 9781403972583

Binding: Hardcover

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Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster's literary and philosophical contributions.
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Molten Sea and Other Poems

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Publisher: The Overmountain Press : January 1995

Seller ID: 38301

ISBN-13: 9781570720758

Binding: Trade Paperback

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NEW COWBOY POETRY

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Publisher: Gibbs Smith : January 1990

Seller ID: 68351

ISBN-13: 9780879052430

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Whether you consider yourself a real cowpoke or a western romantic, you are going to enjoy this batch of new cowboy poems. Reading them aloud, it's easy to get caught up in the spirit of the West. You can almost hear the creak of saddle leather, smell the aroma of chuck wagon coffee, and feel the glow of a mellow campfire beneath a starry desert sky. Here is a first-rate sampling of the best cowboy poetry being written today. The poets in this collection hail from all over the West--California, Montana, Texas and everywhere in between. Some of them have been seen on the Tonight Show with Johnn...
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Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project

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Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation : June 1994

Seller ID: 47786

ISBN-13: 9780945084440

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual No.16: A Special Number

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : August 2005

Seller ID: 21302

ISBN-13: 9781403945686

Binding: Hardcover

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From this renowned research-level series, Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual 16 thrusts Yeats's poems back into the circumstances of their creation and revision, thereby addressing what is very much the coming subject in studies of the Irish Literary Revival and the Modernist Movement: the historicity of Yeats's texts. Essayists and their themes include Wayne Chapman on Yeats's Rebellion Poems, while Joseph M. Hassett and P. S. Sri address Yeats's poetic sequences from fresh viewpoints. Deirdre Toomey illuminates the turning point of 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited', A. Norman Jeffares contribu...
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Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

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Publisher: Knopf : March 2010

Seller ID: 71744

ISBN-13: 9780307269676

Binding: Hardcover

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A remarkable collection of newly discovered conversations with poets, taped in the classroom of the legendary New School teacher Pearl London. London invited poets to bring their drafts to class, to discuss their work in progress and the details of vision and revision that brought a poem to its final version. The shaping spirit of the imagination is what it is all about, she told students. From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and U.S. poet laureates Louise Gluck and Charles Simic, the book covers an extraordinary range of poets and their co...
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Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation

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Publisher: Harmony : March 2003

Seller ID: 53801

ISBN-13: 9781400047994

Binding: Hardcover

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"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" --Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as ...
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Sewanee

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Publisher: Frederic C Beil : February 1983

Seller ID: 39207

ISBN-13: 9780913720370

Binding: Hardcover

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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

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Publisher: Voice : April 2011

Seller ID: 71785

ISBN-13: 9781401341459

Binding: Hardcover

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In "She Walks in Beauty," Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, "She Walks in Beauty" draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, an...
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The Haiku Anthology

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : November 2000

Seller ID: 77606

ISBN-13: 9780393321180

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revised and updated, comprises 850 haiku and senryu (a related genre, usually humorous and concerned with human nature) written in English by 89 poets, including the t...
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The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems By Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets

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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : November 1994

Seller ID: 53752

ISBN-13: 9780807821725

Binding: Hardcover

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North Carolina is well known for its fiction writers, but the state is also home to a number of the nation's best poets. In the past few decades, these poets have produced memorable work and received numerous honors. A companion to the contemporary North Carolina fiction anthology The Rough Road Home (1992), this book provides a substantial sampling of their recent bounty. Poet Michael McFee has chosen from eight to twenty poems by each of fifteen poets. There is a refreshing diversity in the voices, from James Applewhite's down east tobacco farmer to Gerald Barrax's passionate urban man to Ka...
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The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 1976

Seller ID: 71705

ISBN-13: 9780195020588

Binding: Hardcover

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An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.
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Category: Poetry