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| Philip Levine - The Simple Truth: Poems |
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1995, Philip Levine goes from strength to strength, having received the National Book Ward for Poetry for his earlier book What Work Is. This is the first paperback edition of this text, about which Harold Bloom said, "The controlled pathos of every poem in t ...
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| Carl Dennis - Practical Gods |
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The metaphysical pondering of the poems in this eighth collection of Dennis's verse eventually finds its way into the material world, where, for instance, the poet contemplates varnishing his bookshelves.
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| Laurie Sheck - The Willow Grove: Poems |
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Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappe ...
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| Charles Wright - Black Zodiac |
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In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with spiritual longing, ly ...
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| Paul Muldoon - Moy Sand and Gravel |
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The author's ninth collection of poems takes the reader on a richly evocative tour of Ireland, with glimpses of Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, William Butler Yeats, and Sitting Bull, to name just a few. Reprint.
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| John Ashbery - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems |
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John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing exp ...
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| Charles Wright - Chickamauga |
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In these six groups of poems Charles Wright turns again and with still greater intensity to themes that have continued to propel his work: language's mysteries, landscape's luminosity, and the idea of God underlying them both. Chickamauga, site of a Civil War battle on the border of the poet's nativ ...
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| Brenda Hillman - Bright Existence |
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The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent 'Death Tractates, ' offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter.
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