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14 produkter
True-Love
Essays on Poetry and Valuing
Häftad, 2009
344 kr
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"True-Love" is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman's long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. Poetry's singular mission is to bind love and truth together - love that desires the beloved's continued life, knotted with the truth of life's contingency - to help make us …
Long Schoolroom
Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle
Häftad, 1997
232 kr
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Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the "Long Schoolroom" of poetic principle--where he eventually learned to reconsider the notion that …
Long Schoolroom
Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle
Inbunden, 1997
1294 kr
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Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the "Long Schoolroom" of poetic principle--where he eventually learned to reconsider the notion that …
Sighted Singer
Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers
Häftad, 1992
511 kr
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During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our …
Woman on the Bridge. ...: Poetry
Inbunden, 1979
108 kr
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The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman’s first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal––yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval …
Of the Great House
Poetry
Häftad, 1982
182 kr
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A collection of poems discussing illusion and reality, the nature of time, and the meaning of death
Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground: Poetry
Häftad, 1986
272 kr
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A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view.
Ether Dome and Other Poems
New and Selected 1979-1991
Häftad, 1991
295 kr
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In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts …
Philosopher's Window & Other Poems
Häftad, 1995
152 kr
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The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is "an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself"—and in this way, the world. He begins with creation ("The Great Work Farm Elegy"), recalls the romantic quest of youth ("The …
How to Do Things With Tears
Häftad, 2001
245 kr
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The award-winning poet's newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman's newest poetic work. "This is a …
Descartes' Loneliness
Häftad, 2007
257 kr
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Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited …
Managing School Districts for High Performance
Cases in Public Education Leadership
Av Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
632 kr
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Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: …
Instructor's Guide to Managing School Districts for High Performance
Av Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
320 kr
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Teaching by the case method has the potential to affect profoundly the way that teachers, students, and professionals approach the learning process. This companion volume includes detailed teaching notes on each case in the coursebook, with an emphasis on making cases drawn from other disciplines …
True-Love
Essays on Poetry and Valuing
Inbunden, 2009
923 kr
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"True-Love" is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman's long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. Poetry's singular mission is to bind love and truth together - love that desires the beloved's continued life, knotted with the truth of life's contingency - to help make us …
