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  • Without a claim
    Auteur:
    Schulman, Grace
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    "Without a Claim is a modern Book of Psalms. Indeed, the glory in these radiant sacred songs meld an art of high music with a nuanced love of the world unlike any we've heard before. No matter your mood upon entering this...
  • Transformations poems
    Auteur:
    Sexton, Anne
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as...
  • The World Will Follow Joy Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems{Rpara}
    Auteur:
    Walker, Alice
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    "Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a "lavishly...
  • The waste land
    Auteur:
    Eliot, T. S.
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    Famous for juxtaposing Eastern cultures with Western literary references, The Waste Land has been celebrated for its eloquence, depth of meaning, and numerous subtleties. Rich with allusions to the religious texts of Hinduism and...
  • The tortoise of history
    Auteur:
    Hollo, Anselm
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    From "Art History": Someone comes along gives that tedious old thing a new twist or breaks its neck the old questions don't change: what do you want me to say' what do you want me to do' Anselm Hollo (1934-2013...
  • Songs from a mountain
    Auteur:
    Nadelberg, Amanda
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    "Amanda Nadelberg's poems...'re jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical...which in the immediate reading is almost pure music."-Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly From "Matson": So what patent reason...
  • Select poems
    Auteur:
    Eliot, T. S.
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    An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry. In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot's verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible "image of its accelerated...
  • Love, an index
    Auteur:
    Lindenberg, Rebecca
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    A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story-in verse-of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who...
  • Live or die poems
    Auteur:
    Sexton, Anne
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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope With her emotionally raw and deeply resonant third collection, Live or Die, Anne Sexton confirmed her place among the most...
  • Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems
    Auteur:
    Harjo, Joy
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    From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
  • Book of longing
    Auteur:
    Cohen, Leonard
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    Leonard Cohen wrote this book of poems during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai.
  • An American sunrise : poems
    Auteur:
    Harjo, Joy
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    A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.
  • American melancholy : poems
    Auteur:
    Oates, Joyce Carol
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    Covering subjects big and small, this poetry collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the...
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