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René Char
"The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from a... (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets In Donkey Gospel, his second collection of poems, Hoagland's genero... (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, ... (Description from external book data)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Life on the outskirts of modern Rome, seen as an inferno. (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
Hoagland s verse is consistently, and crucially, bloodied by a sense of menace and by straight talk. ”The New York Times My heroes are th... (Description from external book data)
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Catherynne M. Valente
Valente offers a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explores myth and wonder--ancient and modern. (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me The parade for the slain poli... (Description from external book data)
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
In Drafts 1-38, Toll, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has built a work which mimics memory and its losses, and which plays with the textures of memory... (Description from external book data)
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Ernest Cline
A poetry collection by Ernest Cline, known for Ready Player One and Armada. The pieces move between science fiction, pop culture, and person... (Automatically generated book description)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works ”Arabian Nights, The Gospel Accordin... (Description from external book data)
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Jean Daive
A new translation of the groundbreaking French work (Description from external book data)
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Edward William Bonadio
Love, guilt, desire, greed and a host of other emotions are sprinkled through this book of poems and thoughts from the perspective of a twen... (Description from external book data)
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David Coy
This book contains forty-seven poems by David Lavar Coy, written in his forties, a chaotic period. They reflect actual life and work experie... (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
In LITTLE OCEANS we enter the wild range of Tony Hoagland's universe as he charts the manners and morals of our contemporary world with his ... (Description from external book data)
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Stephen Denning
These poems are classical in form, and contemporary in idiom. They display a sharp-edged humor that is deadly serious in intent. They show w... (Description from external book data)
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Robert Burns
The farmer s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a g... (Description from external book data)
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George David Clark
In Reveille, a man suffers fits of super-natural coughing, flytraps attack a child, a moray haunts a waterbed, poltergeists revise a church'... (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
New poetry from award-winning poet Tony Hoagland. (Description from external book data)
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Tony Hoagland
Once more the anthropologist of our American scene brings us his reports from the present. With a ruthless gaze, Tony Hoagland attends to al... (Description from external book data)
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Richard Londraville
In THE INVENTION OF EYES, poet Richard Londraville has explored the dramatic narrative, as shown in sections titled "After the Curtain" and ... (Description from external book data)
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Paula McLain
Poetry. "In Paula McLain's book LESS OF HER, the soul steps forward and sings a torch song. The song is both fevered and measured, bearing t... (Description from external book data)
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Jean Daive
From one of America s finest experimental poets, this translation of a contemplation of the life of Lorine Niedecker, a stellar American po... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Lynch
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Through his quietly profound verse, Michael Lynch catalogues the seemingly insignifi... (Description from external book data)
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David Patterson
It all began as an electronic mailing list which the author created to share his poetry with his friends. This began the personfree personal... (Description from external book data)
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Donald Wellman
Poems. (Description from external book data)
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Donald Wellman
Poetry. "The inspiration for ROMAN EXERCISES stems from my reading of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety. It is an ancient impulse. His work m... (Description from external book data)
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Patrick O'Connell
Patrick O'Connell offers an astonishing meditation on desire and gratitude in three lyrical, imagistic suites of poems. The Joy that Cracked... (Description from external book data)
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Michel Faber
How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle w... (Description from external book data)
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Nick Mancuso
Modern poetry is combined with a classical theme in this complex and turbulent incantational anthology from internationally recognized actor... (Description from external book data)
