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Author: Margaret Atwood
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Languages : en
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Author: Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683006
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 747

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Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.

Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1614

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Author: Lorine Niedecker
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517662
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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A reader-friendly anthology of influence—the geologic, historical, and personal history to supplement Lorine Niedecker’s poem.

Author: Jascha Kessler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462800203
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 559

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The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile and divisive decade in American history. As an articulate and sagacious witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, America's Bicentennial, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work in these years, securing his place in the canon of American poetry. This fifth volume of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren provides insight into Warren's inspiration during a remarkably productive era and will prove an essential resource and testament to his life and work.

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780060882969
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

Author: Lorine Niedecker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093542X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one of the most important poets of her generation and an essential member of the Objectivist circle. Her work attracted high praise from her peers--Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Cid Corman, Clayton Eshleman--with whom she exchanged life-sustaining letters. Niedecker was also a major woman poet who interrogated issues of gender, domesticity, work, marriage, and sexual politics long before the modern feminist movement. Her marginal status, both geographically and as a woman, translates into a major poetry. Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century. Her ear is constantly alive to sounds of nature, oddities of vernacular speech, textures of vowels and consonants. Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion, cosmopolitan experimentation and down-home American speech. This much-anticipated volume presents all of Niedecker's surviving poetry, plays, and creative prose in the sequence of their composition. It includes many poems previously unpublished in book form plus all of Niedecker's surviving 1930s surrealist work and her 1936-46 folk poetry, bringing to light the formative experimental phases of her early career. With an introduction that offers an account of the poet's life and notes that provide detailed textual information, this book will be the definitive reader's and scholar's edition of Niedecker's work.

Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2258

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