 | Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School
Publication Date: April 1999Learning by Heart brings together a unique and diversecollection of poems about the experience of school as seen through theeyes of America's best contemporary poets. These poets capture theeducational process not only in the classroom but as it takes place inthe libraries and hallways, on playing fields, and atdances. Alternately joyous and defiant, they demonstrate how it isthat young people come to find their place in the world.Most of the poems in this anthology were written between 1970and 1995, a period that encompasses both the halcyon years of thepoets-in-...
 |  | New American Poets
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 156792302X | ISBN-13: 978-1567923025A comprehensive and important selection from over ninety of modern poetry's brightest and most exciting voices. Innovative and provocative, this volume is required reading for all poetry enthusiasts, or for anyone interested in the current and future trends of American verse. ...
|  | Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash
Publication Date: January 9, 1995The ultimate collection of verses by America's best-loved humorous author, culled from collections put together by Nash himself. Features Nash's unique rhymes, puns, and observations about everything under the sun. ...
|  | Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present
Publication Date: March 15, 2010Since the time of Blackstone's "Farewell," poetry has been seen as celestial, pastoral, solitary, and mellifluous; law as venerable, social, urban, and cacophonous. This perception has persisted even to the present, with the bourgeoning field of law and literature focusing almost exclusively on fiction and drama. Poetry of the Law, however, reveals the richness of poetry about the law. Poetry of the Law is the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States. As the editors make clear, though, serious need not imply solemn. Ins...
|  | Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices
Release Date: May 22, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Pssst...reader!I've got something to tell you.I'm not just another book of poetry.I'm full of voices you've never heard before.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a turtle, a snowflake, or a pile of dirty laundry?All sorts of objects and animals speak up in these poems that are just shouting to be read.So what are you waiting for? Check me out! ...
|  | An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry: In English Translation, With Urdu Text (Mla Texts and Translations, 12)
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|  | Music's Spell: Poems About Music and Musicians (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Music may be the universal language that needs no words—the “language where all language ends,” as Rilke put it—but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse.Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of William Blake, the weeping guitars of Federico García Lorca, and the jazz rhythms of Langston Hughes; Wallace Stevens on Mozart and Thom Gunn on Elvis—the range of poets and of their approa...
|  | Tales from Ovid
Publication Date: November 1997The METAMORPHOSES of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. Ted Hughes, England's Poet Laureate, has translated 24 stories from the METAMORPHOSES. The result is the most vigorous 20th-century version of this classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader . ...
|  | Wounds: An Intimate Collection (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 13, 2012An intimate collection of poetry, prose, and short narratives and a short novel. ...
|  | Selected Poems: 1965-1975
Publication Date: November 5, 1987Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade. ...
|  | The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation
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|  | Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810
Publication Date: March 8, 2005Bringing together more than 400 poems and poetic excerpts on slavery by writers both famous and unknown, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of slavery in the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world.“The most definitive collection of anti-slavery sentiment in verse yet compiled, essential reading for historians and literary critics alike. . . . A major contribution.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“An astounding literary and editorial achievement.”—David Blight, Yale University“Comprehens...
|  | Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: April 6, 2004| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers.This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more–encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems...
|  | The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008
Publication Date: November 3, 2012This book collects experimental “visual poetry.”With The Last Vispo Anthology, Fantagraphics spotlights the intersection of art and language in this innovative new collection — without peer in English — that gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume. The alphabet is turned on its head and inside-out and the results culminate in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems. The Last Vispo is composed of visual poetry (a portmanteau of the words “visual” and “poe...
|  | The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (Studies in Jewish History (Oxford Paperback))
Publication Date: September 22, 1994| Series: Studies in Jewish History (Oxford Paperback) A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history.The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority.The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as w...
|  | Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq
Publication Date: August 29, 2008| ISBN-10: 0870138421 | ISBN-13: 978-0870138423| Edition: first edition In this stunning collection — the first since the American invasion — Iraqis themselves vividly depict the bombing of Baghdad, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the invaders (on both sides), the sectarian violence — and in the midst of it all, the hardships, loves, and hopes of the Iraqi people. This collection was compiled by Iraqis in exile in the U.S. Poets, editors, and translators in Iraq run the daily risk of suicide bombers, gunfire from all ...
|  | Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
Publication Date: April 1, 2004Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance-from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say? ...
|  | The Longman Anthology of Poetry
Publication Date: January 9, 2006| ISBN-10: 0321117255 | ISBN-13: 978-0321117250This major new poetry anthology blends the best selections from the poetic tradition with a wide range of contemporary works, thematic casebooks, and engaging essays that contextualize poetry century by century. Featuring a breathtaking scope of poetry from the English-speaking world, this diverse collection brings unparalleled historical and cultural background to the study of poetry including discussions of the poetic conventions of the time and the poetic “fingerprints” of particular poets. Intro...
|  | Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. (Loeb Classical Library No. 258)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0674995821 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995826The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene. In this completely new Loeb Classical Library edition, Douglas Gerber provides a faithful translation of the fragments and significant testimonia that have come down to us, with full explanatory notes.Most substantial in this volume is the collection of elegiac verses to which Theognis' name is atta...
|  | H. D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: February 1, 1986| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 611) from SEA GARDEN (1916) through TRILOGY (1944)...
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