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Mules of Love
Av Ellen Bass
Häftad, 2002
159 kr
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Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass’s Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity—personal, cultural, historical and …
Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
Av Lucille Clifton, Kevin Young m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
501 kr
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Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.
Good Woman
Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Häftad, 1987
217 kr
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Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry— Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An …
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New Poems
Av Lucille Clifton, Peter Schweizer
Häftad, 1990
166 kr
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Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond."-- The Women's Review of Books
Quilting
Poems 1987-1990
Häftad, 2000
191 kr
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Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
City in Which I Love You
Av Li-Young Lee
Häftad, 1990
190 kr
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Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must …
Song
The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them
Häftad, 1994
171 kr
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Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty...Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of …
Red Suitcase
Häftad, 1994
279 kr
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Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her …
The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle
The Complete Cycle
Häftad, 1995
190 kr
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These dramatic monologues are spoken by members of the German High Command--Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer, Hermann Goering--their wives and mistresses, during the last month of the European campaign of World War II. In language and forms that astonish, The …
These Upraised Hands
Häftad, 1995
215 kr
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A new collection of narrative poems and dramatic monologues that dissolve the boundaries of poetry and prose fiction.
I Have Tasted the Apple
Av Mary Crow
Häftad, 1996
185 kr
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Mary Crow uses refined perception to tell of a mature woman's personal experiences.
terrible stories
Häftad, 1996
190 kr
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The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.
Night Path
Häftad, 1997
220 kr
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In poems that span the time from her son's fetal stages through the first year of life, Laurie Kutchin's, The Night Path, focuses on the genesis of life. These poems express the connection between the inner and outer worlds showing the reality that is around us and the transcendence that is …
Fuel
Häftad, 1998
185 kr
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Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."
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Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 1998
190 kr
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Buddha alarm clocks, Shiva spice racks, dying gardeners, gunned-down prostitutes, suicidal visionaries, and a god "who is shorter/and a better cook than your God" populate these poems that arrive Plus Shipping. Demanding our perception of the world in payment, Hicok shows us that time has "bones we …
Living Is What I Wanted
Last Poems
Häftad, 1999
190 kr
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The final collection from one of American's most noted poets.
White City
Av Mark Irwin
Häftad, 2000
190 kr
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In White City Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps in imagination to create poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution, yet speaks to America at the end of the 20th century. Irwin's vision for American is as broad as Walt Whitman's while his language is propelled by changing rhythms, lush music …
Smoke
Häftad, 2000
171 kr
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Dorianne Laux's long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully …
Tell Me
50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television
Häftad, 2000
146 kr
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Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.
Parthenopi
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2000
177 kr
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In the title poem of this collection, the speaker declares that "the common measure of love is loss," signature qualities of the poems of Michael Waters. Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems collects the best of Waters, whose vivid, sensual poems evoke poignant memories of loss and the emotional …
Rancho Notorious
Häftad, 2001
143 kr
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Like the movie of the same name, the poems in Rancho Notorious are peopled with a colorful cast of characters, all born of the fertile imagination of Richard Garcia. Through narratives, lyric poems and dramatic monologues, Garcia’s characters demonstrate that the idea of self is fluid, one identity …
A. Poulin, Jr.
Selected Poems
Av A. Poulin, A. Poulin, Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
148 kr
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Selected Poems includes ample offerings from A. Poulin, Jr.’s eight books, now out of print. Known for his imagination and deft intelligence, Poulin’s poems balance philosophical inquiry with emotional intensity, calling us to a spiritual awakening beyond that of traditional religion. Edited by …
Small Gods of Grief
Häftad, 2001
177 kr
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In Small Gods of Grief , Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, love and identity in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human. …
Book of My Nights
Av Li-Young Lee
Häftad, 2001
185 kr
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Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights , Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems …
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
Av Ray Gonzalez
Häftad, 2002
190 kr
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Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that culture, the passionate reclamation of identity. Ray Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and editor born in El …
Dumb Luck
Poems
Av Sam Hamill
Häftad, 2002
150 kr
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Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill’s Dumb Luck affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes. Here you will find Zen fables, elegies and haiku, bluesy riffs, and poems that celebrate births, marriages, the liberating exile of the poet, as well as verses …
Love Song with Motor Vehicles
Häftad, 2003
190 kr
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In Love Song with Motor Vehicles , Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker’s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn’t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most …
