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  • Books Promiscuously Read

    Reading as a Way of Life

    by Heather Cass White ...
    The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of readingHeather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    The Man Who Read Everything

    The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Man Who Read Everything

    The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom

    by Harold Bloom ...
    A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Animals in Classic American Poetry

    How Natural History Inspired Great Verse

    by Mary McAleer Balkun, Margarida Vale de Gato, Aaron Moe, Brian Yothers, Susan L. Roberson, Philip Edward Phillips, Heather Cass White, Calista McRae, Daniel Cross Turner, Thomas C. Gannon ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • New Collected Poems

    by Marianne Moore ...
    A landmark definitive collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet: "This does not supplant Moore's own editing but illuminates it." —Ben LernerThe landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    by Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith ...
    Series Book 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Little Eurekas

    A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

    by Robyn Sarah ...
    A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Edited by Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • You, Too, Could Write a Poem

    by David Orr ...
    A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one placePoetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, ... Read more

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  • Set in Motion

    Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries like Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, and Williams while creating a compelling style and an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • My Poets

    by Maureen N. McLane ...
    A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell"Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD