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Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Selections from Dickey's four published books: 15 from 'Into the stone'; 25 from 'Drowning with others'; 22 from 'Helmets'; and all 22 from 'Buckdancer's choice,' as well as more than a score of new poems under the title 'Falling.'
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable in what before...
7) Becos: poems
Author
Language
English
Description
"Becos" is the Phrygian word for bread and was perhaps the first word spoken by the human race. As a heading for these 40 poems, "becos" connotes Everyman's concern for survival -- spiritual, global, and otherwise and poetry as a possible means to that end. Though Knott has not altogether abandoned the poetry of glamorous mutilations, the searing belligerence of certain earlier poems has been transformed into a poetics of grappling with illusive snapshot...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past: these three books are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Published here in one volume, they include many of Galway Kinnell's best-loved and most-anthologized poems, such as "The Porcupine", "The Bear", "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps", "St. Francis and the Sow", "Fergus Falling", "The Olive Wood Fire", "Prayer", and "The Fundamental Project of Technology"....
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A moving, subtle sequence of narrative poems, from a sharp new poetic voice.
Two strangers walk toward Emmaus. Christ has just been crucified, and they are heartbroken, until a third man joins them on the road and comforts them. Once they reach Emmaus and break bread, the pair realizes they have been walking with Christ himself. But, in the moment they recognize him, he disappears. Spencer Reece draws on this tender story in his mesmerizing collection-one...
17) Space, in chains
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in Space, In Chains create a visceral strangeness true to its own music. So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very air around us bound by chains. There was...