Humor in Modern American Poetry, Paperback - Rachel Trousdale

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John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sub...

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Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet...

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Publisher: University College Dublin PressAuthor(s): Justin QuinnNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 166 x 241 x 22Cover type: Ha...

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The "chengyu", Mandarin Chinese for idiom, condenses a feeling, sentence and more often than not a story into four characters. Similarly, each of L...

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This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

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