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A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyoncé and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are music first. They also comprise the most widely disseminated...

Theres no right or wrong in poetry. You can write anything. Poetry is not about rhyming or rhythm. In this poetry collection, it will show an example how to write poetry. Remember, you can write anything, theres no rule. I use free verse, rhyming, haiku, acrostic, and cinquain poems. But some of my poems arent related to my life, I just have a creative though.

Welcome to this gathering of poetry. It comes in a variety of styles and genres, and is arranged in no particular order save that there is one poem for each day. I have played with traditional forms such as the cinquain and englyn, and worked with free-form verse and rhyme. I have written about the...

Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history...

Dark Poetry: Pieces of the Paradox is a short collection of some of the best dark art and rhyming poetry by Gary Lewis, author of the Three Worlds series of poetry books which include Paradoxium, Inevitum, and Relativium. The author takes every opportunity to mix the mysterious, the imaginary, the...

MPT's Spring Issue Strange Tracks features a focus on new Dutch poetry: new work by Toon Tellegen, Ester Naomi Perquin and Menno Wigman and an interview with Tellegen about his prizewinning collection Raptors. Poems by Zhang Zao, Valerie Rouzeau, versions of riddles and poems from The Exeter Book and more make up the first issue of the new look MPT

Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses...

As native to my country and heritage this book of Poetry will illicit excitement that is derive from the concept of ecstasy and erotic tendencies that allow the mind to visualize in words what INCOGNITO (POETRY MANIFEST) truly means in an illustrated scene.

From the heartbreaking ashes of abuse, a poet emerges to share a poignant collection of lyrical verse that details her journey as she moves from shame and brokenness to realize resilience and strength. Ingrid Rizzolo, a seasoned New York City educator, opens her heart and her life in her poetry, revealing...

Compartmentalize This, is a chapbook-length collection of poetry by contemporary American poet, Samantha Terrell. Born and raised in the Midwest, she earned her Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Missouri State University. Compartmentalize This, like much of her work, explores social issues, inequality,...

This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2017 issue, Number 24. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than...

In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about...

From Sylvia Plath’s depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering “bits” to AIDS elegies’ assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe’s insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed “scraps,” the condition of being too late...

A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry. Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist...