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  • Coda

    Last Poems

    by Karl Shapiro ...
    This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere. They are largely as Shapiro left them, in a desk drawer in his apartment in uptown Manhattan...."Proposition"When we’re old lovers, sitting in separate chairsSilently, will you think our love has fadedThough we smile richly and are still unaidedBy doctors, accountants and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ending Poverty in America

    How to Restore the American Dream

    by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Martin Eakes, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Ronald B. Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hillard Pouncy, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson ...
    An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prosody Handbook

    A Guide to Poetic Form

    by Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Poetry
    Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.Concise and informal, The Prosody Handbook progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by David Wagoner, David Lehman ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry—"a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Eagerly anticipated by scholars, students, readers, and poets alike, Scribner’s Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world, serving as a yearly guide to who’s who in American ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Ode Less Travelled

    Unlocking the Poet Within

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes.Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms.Whether you want to write a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Best American Poetry 2010

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by Amy Gerstler, David Lehman ...
    **AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of *The Best American Poetry.***The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today. Featuring poems from some of our country’s top bards, including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • How To Read A Poem

    And Fall in Love with Poetry

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore SunHow to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous ... Read more

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  • 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    "A really beautiful book" of poems that delve into—and help us transcend—suffering, loss, fear, and loneliness, by the author of How to Read a Poem ( The Boston Globe).Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Read Poetry Like a Professor

    A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    From 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 Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all ... Read more

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  • Short

    An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms

    Edited by Alan Ziegler ...
    Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) ... Read more

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  • The Sounds of Poetry

    by Robert Pinsky ...
    From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, "a keenly idiosyncratic account of the place of poetry in our time . . . not only interesting but suspenseful to read" (James Logenbach, The Nation )."Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the ... Read more

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  • A Little Book on Form

    An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

    by Robert Hass ...
    From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form and an essential book on writing craft for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the ... Read more

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