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Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award From the author of Blood at the Root A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalistnbspElegy for a Broken Machine Poems here is the first collection from awardwinning poet Patrick Phillips A river runs through Patrick Phillipss collection Chattahoochee and through a family saga as powerful and poignant as the landscape in which it unfolds Here are tales of a vanished South elegies for the lost and glimpses of what Flannery OConnor called the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil In language delicate and muscular tender and rawboned Phillips writes of family place and that mythic conjunction of the two we call home
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John Ashbery writes Christian Hawkeys poetry is landscape poetry in the true sense of landscapenot a segment of the Earths surface posing for its picture but an open undetermined space in which all kinds of crazy mental and physical things are going about their business simultaneously What emerges is a portrait of a medium like the one we live in with all its unexpectedness The Book of Funnels is one of the strangest and most beautiful first books of poetry I have read in a long timeChristian Hawkey was raised on Pine Island Florida He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the Pratt Institute in New York City In 2000 he cofounded the poetry journal jubilat He lives in Ft Greene Brooklyn
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Poetry LGBT Studies African American Studies Winner Lambda Literary Award Gay Poetry 2015 Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globes Best Poetry Books 2014 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist Norma Farber First Book Award Poetry Society of America The poems of INSERT BOY have need of the bodydesire it and lament its mortalitybut over and again they assert Smiths seemingly religious belief that every sound the body makes every word and wail is only possible through connection to some other plane of existence This is a lovely voicedriven book singing high notes sharp as a switchbladeJericho Brown Danez Smith lays down the gauntlet for all of us to speak our deepest truths with more elegance more ferocity and almost more beauty than a reader can bearGabrielle Calvocoressi
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The first poetry collection by D A Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea Lunch and Cocktails a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardso many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily falls among the dropseed a rind a leftbehind from no picnic In these brilliant new poems from one of contemporary poetrys most intriguing singular voices D A Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with loss with flowers faded blossom blast and dieback Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter temptation and bitter heartsickness but with Powells deep lyric beauty and his own brand of dark wit
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Rodney Jones has been called the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry Southern Review and one of the nations best most generous and most brilliantly readable poets Poetry Salvation Blues traces the career of this popular narrative poet through one hundred choice poems including twentyfour bold new pieces
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From the snowy egret to a womans floating rib nudism in America to Holy Communion Simone de Beauvoir to Nathans hot dogsthe subjects in Lucia Perillos fourth collection of poetry lift off from surprising places and touch down on new ground Hers is a vision like no other In To My Big Nose she muses hard to imagine what the world would have looked like if not seen through your pink shadow You who are built from random parts like a mythical creaturea gryphon or sphinxFearless focused ironic irreverent truly and deeply felt the poems in Luck Is Luck draw upon the circumstances of being a woman the harsh realities of nature the comfort of familiar things and universally recognizable anxieties about faith and grief love and desire In Languedoc she writes Long ago I might have been attracted by your tights and pantaloons but now they just look silly ditto for your instrument that looks like a gourd with strings attached the problem is always the strings attachedPerillos versions of nature are always unflinching Most days back then I would walk by the shrike tree a dead hawthorn at the base of a hill The shrike had pinned smaller birds on the trees black thorns and the sun had stripped them of their feathers well hard luck is luck nonetheless With a chunk of sky in each eye socket And the pierced heart strung up like a pearlDowntoearth full of playful twists of language and woven from grand themes in an accessible appealing way these poems pierce the heart and delight the mind Not one word is wasted
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A remarkable collection of poetry from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond stitched together with commentary from Giovanni An important resource for those interested in poetry and in understanding the African American experience
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Alisas voice is at once delicate and powerful warm yet mysterious but above all it is an open invitation to musicians from diverse traditions to share in the discovery of something new says Alex de Grassi Alisa has just completed work on a new CD one which marks a radical but also natural departure from her contemporary personal music Along with producer Alex de Grassi Alisa has collected and arranged these traditional Jewish lyrics in a lush setting of worldmusic instrumentation t
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Discovery of Poetry sold for 101.33 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
THE DISCOVERY OF POETRY introduces the art and craft of poetry From an early tribal orison on the rising sun to a recent freeway lyric just out of the word processor poems always reveal the writers concerns feelings and values Starting with words and images this book hopes to help the student understand the importance of word choice and imagemaking building a foundation as he or she learns about rhythm voice and structure Questions and writing prompts help facilitate class discussion and a deeper thinking about poetry The last chapter A Poets Handbook breaks down the creative process of the poet from creating images to revision THE DISCOVERY OF POETRY will help facilitate a deeper appreciation and understanding of poetry
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New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts explores both newly discovered manuscripts and new aspects of known manuscript writings by a number of major early modern authorsincluding genres such as commonplace books sermons unpublished poems and previously unrecognized printers copies The thirteen essays collected in the volume shed new light on already notable texts and add fresh research approaches to issues of authorship scribal transmission and compilation practicesnbsp
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Insightful humorous touching and inspiring are just a few words used to describe this wellloved collection of poems and truisms by the late Portia Nelson Designed to inspire self discovery Theres a Hole in My Sidewalk includes stirring poems that gently lead readers to embrace a more authentic selfIndividuals therapy groups the selfhelp community and twelvestep programs around the world have embraced this classic book Theres a Hole My Sidewalk is the perfect motivational gift for yourself your friends or your family
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A neverbeforepublished poem for children by the Nobel laureateIn the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles So begins a lovely thoughtprovoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995 It is about the first discoverers of America fish birds then man But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky this poem is finally a celebration of our world a world open to possibilities
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The beloved odes written by Chilean poet and 1971 Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda demonstrate his astonishing ability to present ordinary items in new and surprising ways The poems are gathered from Odas elementales Elemental Odes 1954 Nuevas odas elementals New Elemental Odes 1956 Tercer libro de odas Third Book of Odes 1957 and Navegaciones y regresos Voyages and Homecomings 1959 This anthology is the most complete selection of Nerudas work to appear in English in an excellent bilingual format featuring translations by Maria Jacketti an expert of Pablo Nerudas work
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William Blake Kate Greenaway Emily Dickinson the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems first published in 1969 are among literature s most beloved And Gyo Fujikawa s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s Christmas Bells Lewis Carroll s The Melancholy Pig and Eugene Fields Wynken Blynken and Nod along with proverbs limericks nursery rhymes and folk songs
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With piercing clarity and craftsmanship Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery about what is observable and what is not about what passes and what persists As the US Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz has said Mary Olivers poetry is fine and deep it reads like a blessing Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations The Boston Globe has called Mary Oliver a great poet she is amazed but not blinded And the Miami Herald has said The gift of Olivers poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable
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A remarkable discovery an extraordinary literary event the neverbefore translated Unfinished Poems of the great Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy published for the first time in English alongside a revelatory new rendering of the Collected Poemstranslated and annotated by the renowned critic classicist and awardwinning author of The LostWhen he died in 1933 at the age of seventy C P Cavafy left the drafts of thirty poems among his paperssome of them masterly nearly completed verses others less finished texts all accompanied by notes and variants that offer tantalizing glimpses of the poets sometimes yearslong method of rewriting and revision These remarkable poems each meticulously filed in its own dossier by the poet remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades before being published in a definitive scholarly edition in Greek in 1994 Now with the cooperation and support of the Archive Daniel Mendelsohn brings this hitherto unknown creative outpouring to English readers for the first timeBeautiful works in their own rightfrom a sixline verse on the birth of a poem to a longer work that brilliantly paints the autumn of Byzantium in unexpectedly erotic colorsthese unfinished poems provide a thrilling window into Cavafys writing process during the last decade of his life the years of his greatest production They brilliantly explore often in new ways the poets wellestablished themes identity and time the agonies of desire and the ironies of history cultural decline and reappropriation of the past And like the Collected Poems the Unfinished Poems offers a substantial introduction and notes that provide helpful historical textual and literary background for each poemThis splendid translation together with the Collected Poems is a cause for celebrationthe definitive presentation of Cavafy in English
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New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts explores both newly discovered manuscripts and new aspects of known manuscript writings by a number of major early modern authorsincluding genres such as commonplace books sermons unpublished poems and previously unrecognized printers copies The thirteen essays collected in the volume shed new light on already notable texts and add fresh research approaches to issues of authorship scribal transmission and compilation practicesnbsp
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Kinney shows how the Mass the Divine Offices and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skeltons poems and argues that liturgical music especially the plainsong informs all of Skeltons meters What emerges is the portrait of a consistent determined and imaginative poet in whose canon poetics is grounded in the marriage of teaching and preaching The study sheds new light on the interrelationships of politics poetry and religion in Renaissance EnglandOriginally published in 1987A UNC Press Enduring Edition UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print These editions are published unaltered from the original and are presented in affordable paperback formats bringing readers both historical and cultural value
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