Poetry History category: 2770 books

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Strike Sparks

Selected Poems, 1980-2002

by Sharon Olds
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009

A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
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by David Eggleton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006

This dynamic poetry collection combines punchy political and social awareness with tender observations of everyday life. Embracing a wide variety of subjects, these poems constantly shift in tone and rhythm, ranging from hard-hitting "rants" on the South Pacific, the media, big business,...
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A Slant of Light

Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft

by Jan Balakian, Peter Balakian, Philip Brady
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting...
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by Richard Price
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018

This is a book which regards poetry as a meeting point and creator of overlapping communities of writers, readers, and audiences. While essays here look closely at individual poets in the lyric tradition, including Edward Thomas, Denise Riley, and Edwin Morgan, the author also elucidates the networks of energy and inspiration which poetry and the artist’s book catalyse.
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Visible Signs

New and Selected Poems

by Lawrence Raab
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003

A poem by Lawrence Raab is a carefully chosen and precisely rendered moment—a poised and elegant meditation on the nature of memory. This new collection includes a selection from each of Raab's five previous books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems. Readers will delight in their wide-ranging...
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by John Burnside
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded through with myth and longing,...
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by John Burnside
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the charmed half-light of the liminal, a domestic world...
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by Marina Tsvetaeva
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet...
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Nudes

Poems, Memoirs

by Solongo Klawitter
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

Nudes attempts to heal todays inequality and human rights issues in a creative way. Through poetry, women have been expressing the desires and dreams of their true selves. Nudes targets collective consciousness of immigrants, millennials, and military spouses and their daily struggle and place in a society.
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The Government of the Tongue

Selected Prose, 1978-1987

by Seamus Heaney
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.
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Experience

Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

by Norman Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer’s Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental writing as a spiritual practice.   Raised...
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by Maggie Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

• Maggie Nelson is the award-winning writer of modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets • Beautifully designed editions available for the first time in the UK • Published in time for National Poetry Day • Praise for The Latest Winter: o ‘Nelson’s poems move...
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by Maggie Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

• Maggie Nelson is the award-winning writer of modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets • Beautifully designed editions available for the first time in the UK • Published in time for National Poetry Day • Praise for Shiner: o ‘Shiner is totally cool. Maggie Nelson...
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by Robert Burns
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When...
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