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  • Intricate Thicket

    Reading Late Modernist Poetries

    by Mark Scroggins ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    In Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary writing and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Michael Moorcock

    Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain

    by Mark Scroggins ...
    Series Book 52 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the "New Wave" in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for his fantasy and SF, as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Uncollected Louis Zukofsky

    Poetry, Drama, Prose

    Edited by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, Mark Scroggins ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature within the revolutionary modernist movement.The American poet Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978) was a master craftsman in a wide range of forms both traditional and invented. He was a crucial bridge between the “high” ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    And Fall in Love with Poetry

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  • 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

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    "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

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  • Don't Read Poetry

    A Book About How to Read Poems

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    “At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how ... Read more

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  • Strong Words

    Modern poets on modern poetry

    by W.N. Herbert, Matthew Hollis ...
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    Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus

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    A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

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  • A Little Book on Form

    An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

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    Unlocking the Poet Within

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