Author: Elizabeth Alexander Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 9781555975685 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. —from "Allegiance" Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 gathers twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.
Author: Dennis Joseph Enright Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 186
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A professor of English who has taught in such countries as Germany, Egypt and Japan, D.J. Enright has published books of poetry, books for children, novels, and numerous volumes of critical essays and memoirs. Known for his wise, wry and perceptive work, this highly skilled and cunning craftsman tackles social, political, and literary topics with high intelligence and humor. Enright's poetry possesses the power for engaged commentary and is a welcome reminder that poetry finds its vitality, not in theories, but in the experiences of personal life and history. This selection of poems, made with advice from the author, will serve as the ideal introduction to the work of this distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, anthologist, and critic.
Author: Maxine Kumin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393076490 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 253
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"Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection." --Book Jacket.
Author: João Cabral de Melo Neto Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819522313 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : pt Pages : 220
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Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. This bilingual anthology brings together a representative selection from more than a half century of this distinguished Brazilian poet's lifetime work. Along with previously translated poems are many others in English for the first time. The remarkable group of poets and translators includes Elizabeth Bishop, Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Louis Simpson, and W. S. Merwin.
Author: Langston Hughes Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 067972818X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 311
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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 lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
Author: Mary Oliver Publisher: ISBN: Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 280
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One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.
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