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Reducere. Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For prize-winning poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always ...

Reducere. Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of ...

Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America's most essential p...

Reducere. Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and I...

From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d rive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape--borders and citizenshi...

Reducere. In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus' fifth-century B.C. trilogy "The Oresteia, " which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Str...

Reducere. In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-...

In Jan Beatty's fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of bur...

Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry In her third poetry collection, Quan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afgha...

Reducere. "Reading Jeffrey McDaniel's gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet...

Reducere. In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard BlancoA journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and ...

Reducere. In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970....

Reducere. About the AuthorJessica Greenbaum is the author of Inventing Difficulty, winner of the Gerald Cable Prize, and The Two Yvonnes, chosen by Paul Muld...

Reducere. "Trembles with belonging (and longing) and love and sex." --The New York Times "Nathalie Handal's Love and Strange Horses is riddled with provocati...

Reducere. "Vanquishes once and for all the notion that the prose poem is somehow inherently 'not a real poem.' Exhibits a sustained level of innate lyricism ...

Reducere. This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dean YoungIn Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration...

Reducere. "Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestra...

Reducere. The author of collection book of poems has contributed frequently to American Poetry Review, Antaeus and Field. His previous books include Wrecking...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

Reducere. Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and l...

Reducere. The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those wh...

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Reducere. In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of b...

Reducere. "Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, pla...

Reducere. Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American r...

Reducere. This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent m...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake ne...

Reducere. The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur: as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky ...

Reducere. The Milkweed Ladies the memoirs of poet Louise McNeill, is written our deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and t...

Daisy Fried's third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger lea...

Reducere. In about: blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alie...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert BlyThis title is part anthology and part commentary wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through hi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This collection of poems reflects multiple voices around the theme of connections.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Gary GildnerN...

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of SienaPublisher: Un...

Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyr...

Reducere. Ukrainian cooking embodies national and ethnic tastes and reflects the spiritual and social awareness of Ukrainians. More than just a cookbook, Fes...

Reducere. Florida Book AwardPerhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey "Reading Barbara ...

Reducere. Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser ...

Reducere. The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, inv...

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessar...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

What would it take to be home in one's body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers...

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images...

Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the cur...

Reducere. Toi Derricotte's story is a hero's journey--a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. "I" New and Selected Poems shows the reader ...

Reducere. In Jackknife: new and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives ...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Reducere. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the la...

Reducere. Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery--and decision. Set in s...

Digital transformation and demographic change are usually seen as two separate but threatening events. As Japan is the world's frontrunner in demog...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

This Element has two main aims. The first is to provide a explanation of how the micro-interactions between insurgents, authorities, and third part...

Reducere. The mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania provide the setting for the most popular whitewater in America: the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle. Peop...

Reducere. Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt a...

Reducere. DescriptionHell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent sevent...

Reducere. With the coming of the twentieth century, America was thinking on a grand scale. Barriers of communication and transportation were being overcome a...

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other ...

Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.Illustrations: 8 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 table

Reducere. In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythago...

Reducere. Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency ...

Reducere. Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting pol...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...