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By: A.C. SPEARING
Price: $10.00
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM176544
Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry ... View more info
By: ALLEN GINSBERG
Price: $8.50
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING:
Seller ID: IM377456
A touching look into the heart and family of one of America's greatest poets. As a literary portrait of a father and son, little can match the eloquence and honesty of this collection of letters, written between Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis, spanning the years 1944 to 1976. Their correspondence is filled with affection, respect, and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal-they debate every major political and artistic issue that faced America in over three decad... View more info
By: ANDY FITCH
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Publisher: UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE:
Seller ID: IM420653
By: ANNE (ED) WRIGHT
Price: $5.00
Publisher: ZZZAVAILABLE:
Seller ID: IM315217
This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail of two extraordinary writers. Leslie Marmon Silko is a poet and novelist. James Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his "Collected Poems." They met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her book "Ceremony." The letters begin formally, and then each... View more info
By: ARTHUR E. BARKER
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM444057
By: CHAD WALSH
Price: $7.00
Publisher: WILEY JOHN & SONS INC.(TRADE:
Seller ID: IM168504
By: CHRIS ROBERTS
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Publisher: PENGUIN:
Seller ID: IM386890
Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? ?Baa Baa Black Sheep? a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Jill "really" do on that hill? Chris Roberts reveals the seamy and quirky stories behind our favorite nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are rarely as innocent as they seem?there is a wealth of concealed meaning in our familiar childhood verse. More than a century after Queen Victoria decided that children were better off without the full story, London librarian Chris Rober... View more info
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS:
Seller ID: IM442026
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Seller ID: IM412988
This book features Eileen Tabios (editor of The Asian Pacific American Journal) discussing the development of a particular poem(s) (featuring early drafts leading to the final draft of a poem) with some of the country's leading poets: Meena Alexander, Indran Amirthanayagam, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Luis Cabalquinto, Marilyn Chin, Sesshu Foster, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, David Mura, Arthur Sze (who also provides an introductory... View more info
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Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC.:
Seller ID: IM98720
By: EILEEN SIMPSON
Price: $6.00
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC.:
Seller ID: IM100291
By: EKBERT FAAS
Price: $10.00
Publisher: MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM252943
The correspondence includes heated and lively debates over the work of poets such as Robert Graves, Louis Dudek, and Charles Olson; anecdotes from the personal lives of Creeley and Layton at crucial stages in both their careers; and glimpses of a time of change when the Black Mountain and other postmodernist movements were beginning. Admirers of Creeley and Layton will find this book of special interest, as will students of literature and scholars of modern poetry. View more info
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Publisher: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM284551
Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" View more info
By: ELIZABETH COOK
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Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM60165
The Scope of Renaissance Poetry. View more info
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Publisher: EXPRESSION COMPANY:
Seller ID: IM431990