Poetry
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Optic Subwoof
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Dougla… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268675
- Language: English
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Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
$14.99 Add to cartGet on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, “I could do this,” but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic–or worse, you climbed up on stage and stru
- Series: Poetry Speaks Experience
- Author: Smith, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402218990
- Language: English
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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My Emily Dickinson
$15.95 Add to cartFor Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.” Susan Howe–taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides–embodies that art in her
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216837
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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100 Selected Poems: John Keats
$15.99 Read moreOne of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of a
- Series: 100 Selected Poems
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178479
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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The Pocket Emily Dickinson
$16.95 Read moreEmily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling image… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1645473082
- Language: English
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The Art of the Poetic Line
$15.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974880
- Language: English
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Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his re… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1400043166
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$30.00 Read moreAn award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre
In Don’t Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduc… [more below]- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0465094503
- Language: English
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Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
$23.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets–Lucille Clifton.
Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work t
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1960145355
- Language: English
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Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library
$14.99 Read moreGold winner in Poetry and Special Honors Award winner for Best Anthology Nautilus Book Awards
The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Lib… [more below]- Author: McCabe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1473693004
- Language: English
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
$34.95 Add to cartWinner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award
In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact u- Author: Rogoff, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180904
- Language: English
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Aeneid. Virgil
$16.95 Read more- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Day Lewis, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537488
- Language: English
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Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
$27.50 Read moreNow in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today.
Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of conc- Author: Perloff, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 178914776X
- Language: English
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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Bea
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 006211378X
- Language: English
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Fear, Some
$17.95 Add to cartStealing tropes from militancy to minstrelsy, Fear, some broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial and aesthetic anxieties overlap. These poems seek to pressurize content (“… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597090719
- Language: English
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God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God
$17.93 Add to cartIn this engaging study, the author compares Mary Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language and provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work.
- Author: Mann, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: June 25 2004
- ISBN10: 1561012610
- Language: English
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Poetry for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartDemystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetry
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: The Poetry Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2001
- ISBN10: 0764552724
- Language: English
