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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
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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:
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By: ANNE (ED) WRIGHT
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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: BABETTE DEUTSCH
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Publisher: HARPER COLLINS TRADE DIVISION:
Edition: 4
Seller ID: IM31359
The classic reference work--an invaluable sourcebook for poets and readers View more info
By: BEN BELITT
Price: $7.00
Publisher: EVERGREEN BLACK CAT:
Seller ID: IM500450
By: CHAD WALSH
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Publisher: WILEY JOHN & SONS INC.(TRADE:
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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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Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC.:
Seller ID: IM98720
By: EILEEN SIMPSON
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Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC.:
Seller ID: IM100291
By: EKBERT FAAS
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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
By: EMERY NEFF
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Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Seller ID: IM443322
By: ERICA WAGNER
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Publisher: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY:
Seller ID: IM485059
When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters,... View more info
By: ERNEST B. GILMAN
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS:
Seller ID: IM56948
Dj lightly worn with a few small tears. View more info
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Publisher: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION:
Edition: 3
Seller ID: IM487333
By: FRANK SWINNERTON
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Publisher: FARRAR STRAUS & CO.:
Seller ID: IM428316
Dust jacket badly worn. View more info
By: FRED CHAPPELL
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Publisher: ST. MARTINS PRESS/TOR BOOKS:
Seller ID: IM69938
One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, William Matthews, A. R. Ammons, Linda Pastan, Julia Randall, Cornelius Eady, Alan Shapiro, and many others. And there are essays on the plight of the critic ("Thanks but No Thanks")... View more info
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Publisher: WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING:
Seller ID: IM420370
A collection of useful articles for poets from Next...Magazine, which covered the Southern California, and national, poetry scene in the mid-90's. It covers the growth of slam, touring with interviews and profiles of many poets who are now important figures in American poetry, like Henry Rollins, Miranda July, Ellyn Maybe and Patricia Smith. View more info
