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This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and my...

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Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illog...

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With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following the poets recent prose work on the historical a...

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Often breathtaking ...this latest collection from Kocot intersperses frantic images with hauntingly simple and loss-laden outcries. Throughout, there is the poet's thwarted longing for an understanding that cannot come: "all poets and po...

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Also known as genkouyoushi or genkoyoshi paper, Kanji paper has columns of squares to practice Japanese lettering. Each large square can hold one Japanese character (known as Kanji, Hiragana or Katakana and is divided into four quadrants to guide ...

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Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and op...

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The 8.5" x 11" sheet music consists of 12 plain staffs (American English) / staves (British English) and is intended for composers who are writing their own music or songs. This format is standard for Western music and ideal for vocal or piano sco...

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Quad Rule graph paper, also known as 4x4 graph paper has four squares per inch, so each square measures .25” x .25” It is frequently used for math or science for younger children (teens and college age may use 5x5). Graph paper has man...

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In 1941 a Korean medical student, chafing under Japanese colonial rule, joins guerrillas fighting the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria. In 1944 a young American GI fights the Japanese in New Guinea. Both men suffer great personal losses before ...

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Finding Work was like Pulling a Heist... Only you're the mark. We hit the streets in 1983, latest peak of the Endless Recession. Interest rates were in the high teens. Portland looked deserted, a relic. More dive bars than people. But still more p...

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When a fraternity prank turned terrible, I found myself in a snowstorm on a back road somewhere about four hours from the frat house. Blindfolded, during the entire trip, I was lost and disoriented when we stopped to let me out. I had no idea wher...

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Miles recovered from the gunshot wounds he suffered in his ill-fated to escape his Miles of Stolen Sales crimes. Recovery for Miles was an escape from a high-security hospital that included Jess, a victim turned girlfriend. The heat on Miles was s...

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In 1942 a German U-Boat campaign in the Western Atlantic (Operation Drumbeat) came close to severing the vital artery of war supplies between America and Great Britain. Unprepared and ill-equipped, America struggled to counter this ...

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Ivan Blatny is a legendary Czech poet of the mid- to late twentieth century.

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Letters to Wendy's is an outrageous, tragic, genre-bending novel written over the course of a year on comment cards from the fast-food chain restaurant Wendy's. Through the letters, the book traces a year in the life and thoughts of an u...

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In his debut volume, Richard Meier risks "an affront to the personal" by dismantling and reassembling the lyric "I." His poems demonstrate a dizzying grace while uncovering a terrain less vague than tremendously powerful. The e...

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In his introduction to this, Richards debut collection, Tomaz Salamun writes "It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art."

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- Rohrer's newest collection, A Green Light, is due out from Verse Press in May 2004, and will generate renewed interest in his backlist. - Rohrers first collection sold extremely well, and he continues to be one of the most talked-about poet...

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Of Beckmans follow-up collection to his APR-Honickman award winning first book, Tomaz Salamun writes: "There are no similarities with Apollinaire or Ginsberg, except with what they were doing to Time while they were young." The contempla...

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The 44 stories of Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee-long-awaited by fans of Tate's poetry-will come as a welcome surprise to readers unfamiliar with his previous work. Tate seems both awed and bemused by small town life, with its legends, flights...

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Dara Wiers poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absenc...

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A Beaker: New and Selected Poems shows Knoxs particular insistence on painterly abstraction, linguistic goofiness, and formal rigor. Free-wheeling allusive artifacts, Knoxs poems are visually precise, at times ornate, and often humorous. Selected ...

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Lederer's debut poetry collection explores sex, gender, nature and romance with lyric grace and intellectual rigor. These open and inventive poems are filled with "a kinetic energy that rises out of erotic desire"D. A. Powell.

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-Greenberg is also a highly visible critic; she has written recent reviews in The Boston Review, Rain Taxi, Verse, and EPR. - Greenberg teaches at Columbia College, Chicago, and has taught at Bentley College in Boston. - Greenberg will have poems ...

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This remarkable second book from Diane Wald was a finalist for the 2002 James Laughlin Award. Michael Burkard writes "The Yellow Hotel is a sensational book."

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Clumsy acrobats tumbling through the circuses of philosophy, architecture, politics, religion and just about anything else you can think of, Steve Shavels wild meditations drift and whirl with spastic brilliance among languages most earnest and pl...

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Award-winning poet Joshua Beckman returns with 150 extraordinary short lyrics which build a kind of meta-narrative throughout this haunting and powerful book. This new collection showcases Beckmans ability, even within the confines of a few brief ...

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- Knox's last collection was reviewed in The New Yorker, among other venues. - Knox is widely respected both in her generation and among a younger generation of poets. - Except for A Beaker: New and Selected Poems (Verse Press, 2002), this is...

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Written by 100 American poets, Isn't It Romantic offers an engaging look at how contemporary poets respond afresh to the well-trammeled territory of the love poem. Award-winning poets from across the country lend their voices to this importan...

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Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley's explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This collection takes its title from Italian ph...

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