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Blue Wine and Other Poems
Häftad, 1979
395 kr
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John Hollander's "Blue Wine and Other Poems," his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, "Spectral Emanations," shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career. Poems on painting and sculpture, in which …
Times Between
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1982
400 kr
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"In Wyatt Prunty's poetry, familiar things and places, old things and new things, lost things, lost faces are recovered and illumined by a language both skewed and precise".--Walker Percy. (Poetry)
Boy under the Bed
Av Philip Dacey
Häftad, 1981
424 kr
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This second collection by award-winning poet Philip Dacey runs the gamut from existential mysteries to domestic dramas. Dacey writes in both traditional and free verse forms, and organizes these selections into four sections whose focus gradually shifts from the inexplicable phenomena of …
Heisenberg Variations
Av John Bricuth
Häftad, 1981
295 kr
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Winner of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for the Best Book in Poetry, Texas Institute of LettersJohn Briuth treats the world with extraordinary wit and subtle humar-rare enough qualities in much twentieth-century poetry. Bricuth writes with gusto on a variety of subjects, from the act of writing …
What Women Know, What Men Believe
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1986
226 kr
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Poems deal with the past, parenthood, mortality, nature, loneliness, violence, beauty, neighbors, and sleep
In Time and Place
Häftad, 1986
399 kr
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In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. "In Time and Place" features a generous offering of new verse, an extended prose piece, and a series of prose poems previously available only in a rare, …
Balance As Belief
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1989
408 kr
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In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson …
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Short Stories
Häftad, 1990
523 kr
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The author of "Eelgrass" and "The Kentucky Stories" now offers a collection of "mysterious and beautiful" (Lee Smith) stories, "as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen" (Toby Olson).
Dark Horses
New Poems
Häftad, 1992
361 kr
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In "Dark Horses" prize-winning poet X.J. Kennedy gathers 42 new poems. From the lighthearted ballad "Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's" to the darkly meditative lyric "The Waterbury Cross", the poems show Kennedy's wide range. There are intimate portraits of a woman veterinarian and a young man …
Run of the House
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1993
336 kr
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In his latest book of poems, Wyatt Pruncy finds beauty, violence, mystery, and humour in a variety of public and private worlds. Wyatt Prunty's previous collections of poems, "The Times Between, What Women Know, What Men Believe", and "Balance as Belief" are also available from Johns Hopkins.
Long Made Short
Häftad, 1993
466 kr
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"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy".--"New York Times Book Review".
Home at Last
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 1994
440 kr
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"Home" is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague …
Color Wheel
Häftad, 1994
495 kr
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Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of …
All Gone
18 Short Stories
Häftad, 1990
408 kr
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A collection of 18 short stories by a "very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination" ("Times Literary Supplement").
What Goes without Saying
Collected Stories of Josephine Jacobsen
Häftad, 2000
410 kr
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The recipient of nearly every major literary award in the United States, Josephine Jacobsen has enjoyed a career that spans more than six decades, from the publication of her first poem at age eleven to her 1995 nomination as a National Book Award finalist. What Goes without Saying brings together …
In the Crevice of Time
New and Collected Poems
Häftad, 2000
461 kr
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Collected poetry from the 1995 National Book Award finalist.
Airs of Providence
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2000
476 kr
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Providence -- a city named in the hope that a direct compliment to God might place Him under some sort of obligation to its inhabitants -- provides Jean McGarry with the fertile ground of her comic and gritty, harsh and touching cycle of stories. Weaving in and out of Airs of Providence is o …
Spinach Days
Inbunden, 2000
459 kr
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Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of …
Time to Go
Häftad, 2002
448 kr
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In Time to Go, the author of the highly acclaimed 14 Stories, Long Made Short, and All Gone has written a dazzling book of eighteen interlocking pieces. Part short story collection, part novel, Time to Go moves from despair to hope, from the passing of things -- time, relationships, businesses, …
Drowned Moon
Av Glenn Blake
Häftad, 2002
461 kr
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The stories in Drowned Moon are set in Southeast Texas, where the Old and the Lost Rivers meet and empty into the bay. This unique geographic location, with its unpredictable waters, its sinking swamps, its bayous and sloughs, provides a haunting landscape for Glenn Blake's characters.
14 Stories
Häftad, 2002
476 kr
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Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an …
Unarmed and Dangerous
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2003
467 kr
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Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth" (Howard Nemerov), "both artful and truthful" (Donald Justice), "a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion" (Anthony Hecht), and "illuminated by a language both skewed and precise" (Walker …
Spinach Days
Häftad, 2004
448 kr
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Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of …
So the Story Goes
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series
Av John T. Irwin, Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2005
392 kr
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Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and …
Drunk in Sunlight
Inbunden, 2007
517 kr
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Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. But the poems collected here-previously published in such leading literary journals as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, …
Drunk in Sunlight
Häftad, 2007
290 kr
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Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. But the poems collected here-previously published in such leading literary journals as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, …
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus
New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007
Häftad, 2007
287 kr
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For more than half a century, readers and listeners have taken special pleasure in the poetry of X. J. Kennedy. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus is an ample gathering of his best work: memorable songs, startling lyrics, poems that tell poignant stories, character studies that vie with those of Edwin …
Lover’s Guide to Trapping
Av Wyatt Prunty
Inbunden, 2009
360 kr
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Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is that she be let in. And there are …
Return Fire
Av Glenn Blake
Inbunden, 2010
370 kr
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"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see …
Signs & Wonders
Inbunden, 2011
433 kr
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Signs is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB); Wonders (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb. The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world is to be read into and wondered over. The signs in this new work from the prize-winning American …
