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The Body Ghost

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Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics.“Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us. ... Read more

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Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics.“Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
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Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition

Writing to Save the World

by Ron Balthazor, Hill Taylor, Lindsay Tigue, Kim Waters, Justin Rademaekers, Cheryl Wanko, Joanne Chu, Lesley Hawkes, Pamela Herron, Joseph R. Lease0, Deborah Church Miller1, Matthew R. Martin2, Abby L. Goode3 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about sustainability is greater than it ever has been. On college campuses, writing intensive courses, often located within First-Year or General Education curricula, are an ideal place to take up ... Read more

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Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about sustainability is greater than it ever has been. On college campuses, writing intensive courses, often located within First-Year or General Education curricula, are an ideal place to take up
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare ...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single volume. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery The Comedies of William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of ... Read more

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This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single volume. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery The Comedies of William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the ... Read more

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the
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Salvaged

by Omar Al Owais ...

A compilation of poetry written in joy, sorrow, and retrospect. The poems are inspired by travels, lakes, and a hope for a sunnier tomorrow.Each poem in this anthology was written to relieve me of the burden of unsaid words that simply cannot be said. Each poem here was written to plant seeds of hope within the soils of sorrow in my chest.Each poem in this anthology salvaged me. ... Read more

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A compilation of poetry written in joy, sorrow, and retrospect. The poems are inspired by travels, lakes, and a hope for a sunnier tomorrow.Each poem in this anthology was written to relieve me of the burden of unsaid words that simply cannot be said. Each poem here was written to plant seeds of hope within the soils of sorrow in my chest.Each poem in this anthology salvaged me.
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Endpoint and Other Poems

by John Updike ...

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, ... Read more

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A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family,
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The After Party

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by Jana Prikryl ...

"A truly moving book." —John AshberyJana Prikryl’s The After Party journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City,from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl’s ambitiousexperimentation with style.“Thirty ... Read more

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"A truly moving book." —John AshberyJana Prikryl’s The After Party journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City,from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl’s ambitiousexperimentation with style.“Thirty
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

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by Kevin Powers ...

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown ... Read more

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The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown
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Out of the Blue

by Simon Armitage ...

This book brings together three verse form pieces each of which was created to be part of a broader form. 'Out of the Blue' itself is a powerful, award-winning, poem-film created five years after the attacks which destroyed the twin towers in NewYork. With a title from a speech of Churchill, 'We May Allow Ourselves a Brief Period of Rejoicing' was a Channel 5 commission for a broadcast celebrating ... Read more

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This book brings together three verse form pieces each of which was created to be part of a broader form. 'Out of the Blue' itself is a powerful, award-winning, poem-film created five years after the attacks which destroyed the twin towers in NewYork. With a title from a speech of Churchill, 'We May Allow Ourselves a Brief Period of Rejoicing' was a Channel 5 commission for a broadcast celebrating
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Poet in Spain

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by Federico García Lorca ...

For the first time in a quarter century, a major new volume of translations of the beloved poetry of Federico García Lorca, presented in a beautiful bilingual editionThe fluid and mesmeric lines of these new translations by the award-winning poet Sarah Arvio bring us closer than ever to the talismanic perfection of the great García Lorca. Poet in Spain invokes the "wild, innate, local surrealism" ... Read more

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For the first time in a quarter century, a major new volume of translations of the beloved poetry of Federico García Lorca, presented in a beautiful bilingual editionThe fluid and mesmeric lines of these new translations by the award-winning poet Sarah Arvio bring us closer than ever to the talismanic perfection of the great García Lorca. Poet in Spain invokes the "wild, innate, local surrealism"
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Burnt Island

by D. Nurkse ...

D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11–a metaphorical “burnt island,” where diggers doze on ... Read more

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D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11–a metaphorical “burnt island,” where diggers doze on
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Magnetic Point

Selected Poems

Translated by Clare Cavanagh ...

by Ryszard Krynicki ...

With a splendid selection from a half century of marvelous poems, a major Polish poet appears in English at lastOne of Poland's greatest living poets—now in English at last—Ryszard Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp, the son of Polish slave laborers. His 1969 volume, Act of Birth, marked the emergence of a major voice in the "New Wave" of Polish poetry. In Krynicki's work, political ... Read more

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With a splendid selection from a half century of marvelous poems, a major Polish poet appears in English at lastOne of Poland's greatest living poets—now in English at last—Ryszard Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp, the son of Polish slave laborers. His 1969 volume, Act of Birth, marked the emergence of a major voice in the "New Wave" of Polish poetry. In Krynicki's work, political
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