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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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| Rodney Jones - Elegy for the Southern Drawl |
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A bawdy, witty revelation by an award-winning poet who celebrates the soul of the South in jest and in elegy. Exulting in the drawl of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's poems play out the life cycle of the young southern white male, from high school football games to first debauchery, from ignoranc ...
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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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| 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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| C.K. Williams - Repair |
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In his eighth book of poems, Williams continues to develop the possibilities of the long line for which he is so well known, but he includes some short lines here as well, recalling the work of his early books. The poems here often investigate consciousness--both in the psychological sense of the wo ...
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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 - 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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| Louise Gluck - The Seven Ages |
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In this ninth book by Gluck, a previous Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize recipient, her straightforward and haunting voice approaches autobiographical material, delving into questions about her own past. Gluck's older sister features importantly in this volume. Named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angel ...
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