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This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.  The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across...

The Fringe Poetry Magazine 2018 follows the success of The 2017 Magazine and The Fringe Poetry On the Move and The Fringe Poetry Festival series of poetry pamphlets and e-pamphlets and from two books, The Fringe Poetry Cafe and The Fringe Poetry White Book. 'The Fringe' is a poetry collective...

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important...

American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily...

"Good poetry makes the reader think and feel. Great poetry also gives the reader a glimpse into the poet's mind and heart. Eclectica cuts twenty-one windows into the soul and psyche of J-Mag Guthrie. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes educational, sometimes wistful, but always honest and direct, Guthrie...

'The Fringe Poetry Magazine-17' follows the success of 'The Fringe Poetry On the Move' and 'The Fringe Poetry Festival' series of poetry pamphlets and e-pamphlets and from two books, 'The Fringe Poetry Cafe' and 'The Fringe Poetry White Book'.'The...

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and Western-style education encroached on the Confucian traditions that lay at the foundation of Chinese society. The reverberations for Chinese culture and literature were profound. The Republican period...

This book: Silly and serious is the first of 3 that I have in mind to start out with. This book contains a compilation of the poetry that I have written. It is only a small amount considering what is yet to be published, but it is a start. I titled my book Silly and Serious, because that is what it...

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...

Hello poetry fans!!! Brett Johnson would like to thank you for purchasing his first poetry book called Beautiful Poetry for a Special Person. This poetry book may seem like it revolves around one person. The interchangeable content in this poetry book can describe and talk about so many people who...

Flickerings is not just an unusual and multi-faceted collection of the author's poetry. While he uses the poetry form to tackle often disturbing themes, such as the search for the meaning of life, death among family and friends and even large social issues such as consumerism and the environment,...

Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian...

Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of poetry...

In Melissa Balmain’s Walking in on People, the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor, and the lighthearted is enriched with abundant wisdom. She shows us how poetry can be fun yet grounded in everyday challenges and triumphs, with subjects ranging from the current...