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Essays After Eighty
Donald Hall · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
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From a former Poet Laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age  Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown,... |
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Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Neil L. Rudenstine · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Shakespeares sonnets are the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet, they are often misunderstood. Ideas of Order A Close Reading of Shakespeares Sonnets reveals an underlying structure within the 154 poems... |
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Blue Horses: Poems
Mary Oliver · Penguin Press
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In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry,... |
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S O S: Poems 1961-2013
Amiri Baraka , · Grove Press
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A New York Times Editors Choice Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Barakawhose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others New York Timeswas one of the preeminent literary innovators... |
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The Poetry Deal
Diane Di Prima · City Lights Foundation Books |
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"The Poetry Deal shines with eros and kindness and the reality of inspiration. No American or Anarchist voice or soul-building heart has ever been more clear. The pages are fierce with love and generosity."--Michael McClure, author of Ghost Tantras"The Poetry Deal is fresh... |
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
Ben Holden · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
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"A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems.... |
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And Short the Season: Poems
Maxine Kumin · W W Norton
Pages: 112
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature. A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is "unforgettable, indispensable" (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality:... |
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The Moon Before Morning
W S Merwin · Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pages: 121
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"Merwin's masterfully refined, meditative poems stem from his dwelling mindfully in one beloved place and handling words as though they are seeds, flowers, stones, and water ... Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance,... |
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