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Cover of The Poetry of Truth
by Raymond Sunstrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016

A teaching assignment to the Bahamas is the beginning of a profound life-changing journey for White Canadian Ray Sunstrum. The journey continues when he begins pursuing a degree in Social Work at Ottawa’s Carleton University and meets the love of his life, Dora, a Black woman from Trinidad and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

The Global Poetry Anthology is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary previously-unpublished poems gathered from all corners of the English speaking world. An international editorial board ensures the present volume's cosmopolitan palette, and the "blind" selection process guarantees...
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by Jack Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013

A remarkable late-in-life collection, elegiac and bracing, from master poet Jack Gilbert, whose Refusing Heaven captivated the poetry world and won the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In these characteristically bold and nuanced poems, Gilbert...
Cover of The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

“Poems once in motion…continue to move their readers. And what an imaginative variety of poetic delights is offered here.”—Billy Collins It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of...
Cover of Rivers and Mountains
by John Ashbery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

From one of our most important modern poets comes an essential early collection, including the famous long poems “The Skaters” and “Clepsydra” When Rivers and Mountains was published in 1966, American poetry was in a state of radical redefinition, with John Ashbery recognized as one...
Cover of Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology (1921)
by Alexander Pushkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

This early anthology of Russian poetry was compiled and translated by Deutsch and Yermolinksy and was originally published in 1921. It provides a fascinating and absorbing collection of some of the work of Russia’s greatest poets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deutsch and Yermolinksy...
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by Arthur Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

Quiet Room is a collection of Zen poetry by 14th century Zen master Jakushitsu-widely considered to be one of the finest poets of the genre. The poetry of Rinzai Zen master Jakushitsu remains as fresh and resonant today as when it was written centuries ago. Now his brilliant, poignant zen poetry,...
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Monolithos

Poems '62-'82

by Jack Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict compression of...
Cover of Wild Hundreds
by Nate Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015

Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category) Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category) Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category) Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book...
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In Her Words

Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes

by Margaret H. Persin, Jasmina Arsova, Mark Bajus
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011

During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry,...
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The False Laws of Narrative

The Poetry of Fred Wah

by Fred Wah
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011

The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism,...
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Physics Envy

American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After

by Peter Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015

At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind. Following the overthrow of the Newtonian worldview and the recent, shocking displays of the power...
Cover of In Search of Chaucer
by Bertrand Bronson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960

In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of truth...
Cover of Gutted
by Justin Chin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

“At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming.”—Publishers Weekly While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu—to help...
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