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28 produkter
Chance Ransom
POEMS
Av Kevin Stein
Inbunden, 2000
1451 kr
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Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate.Often improvisational and always …
Immortal Sofa
Inbunden, 2008
1420 kr
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In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of …
Sufficiency of the Actual
Av Kevin Stein
Inbunden, 2008
1451 kr
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In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of …
Pursuit of a Wound
POEMS
Av Sydney Lea
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for his collection To the Bone, Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, Pursuit of a Wound, is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny …
Chance Ransom
POEMS
Av Kevin Stein
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate.Often improvisational and always …
HOUSE of POURED OUT WATERS
POEMS
Av Jane Mead
Häftad, 2001
298 kr
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In House of Poured-Out Waters, Jane Mead's substantial new collection, she continues to grapple with a world both personal and cultural. Poised in the slender moment between too early and too late, between the difficult past and the unimaginable future, Mead's poems remind us that the old debates …
SILENT SINGER
NEW and SELECTED POEMS
Av Len Roberts
Häftad, 2001
330 kr
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Winner of several major awards, including the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series, Len Roberts is a powerful and uncompromising poet whose work redeems a turbulent past. "The Silent Singer" offers the best of Roberts' past work as well as a sizable collection of …
SALT HOUR
POEMS
Av J. P. White
Häftad, 2001
261 kr
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With this dazzling collection, J. P. White embarks on a windswept journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and pull of the mind at odds with circumstance, these bracing poems plumb the depths of the sea and of the …
HOUSE of SONG
POEMS
Häftad, 2002
379 kr
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As a recipient of Poetry's Levinson Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize and a nominee for the American Book Award and National Book Award, David Wagoner is one of this country's most celebrated poets. In The House of Song, he offers a hundred new poems in six parts. At turns elegiac, comic, and …
Guide to the Blue Tongue
POEMS
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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Shimmering with saturated color and heat, Guide to the Blue Tongue is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own …
X =
POEMS
Av Stephen Berg
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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In X=, Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming …
Songlines in Michaeltree
NEW and COLLECTED POEMS
Häftad, 2002
476 kr
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Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems--with the sparkling addition of some new ones--of one of America's most revered poets. Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers …
Arts of a Cold Sun
POEMS
Av G. E. Murray
Häftad, 2003
282 kr
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In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception.Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant …
Barter
POEMS
Av Ira Sadoff
Häftad, 2003
298 kr
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Ira Sadoff’s new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . .” The poetry collected here is a response to this call. Rooted firmly …
Hollow Log Lounge
POEMS
Av R. T. Smith
Häftad, 2003
282 kr
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"This is no fairy tale. / It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. / It's my life, a raspy song, that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they …
Deed to the Light
Häftad, 2004
298 kr
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In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."
In the Black Window
NEW and SELECTED POEMS
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and …
Good Morning and Good Night
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and …
American Ghost Roses
Av Kevin Stein
Häftad, 2005
282 kr
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In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture. …
Visiting Picasso
Av Jim Barnes
Häftad, 2007
282 kr
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Jim Barnes’s familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history …
Disappearing Trick
Av Len Roberts
Häftad, 2007
282 kr
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In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as …
Tongue & Groove
Häftad, 2007
282 kr
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Inspired and informed by the music and urban landscape of New York City, Tongue & Groove employs jazzy and descriptive language in a sweep of city-life experiences and memories. A passionate rendering of incidents in spaces that include the subway, a school for the handicapped, and the Museum of …
Expectation Days
Häftad, 2007
282 kr
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From movie making to medical misadventures, meditations on widowhood to feminist protestations, Expectation Days is a dazzling portrayal of instances in Sandra McPherson's life. Her autobiographical collection uses peculiar and exact language to reflect on a wide range of activities that include …
Sleeping with the Moon
Häftad, 2007
282 kr
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PEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection's award-winning poems animate women's experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver …
Map of the Night
Häftad, 2008
330 kr
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David Wagoner's wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new …
Immortal Sofa
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of …
Use Trouble
Häftad, 2009
476 kr
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For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper’s poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz …
Sufficiency of the Actual
Av Kevin Stein
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of …
