Call us what we carry : poems.
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In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning.
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
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Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Companion of Life: Poems from Zimbabwe
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The virtue of these finely tuned poems does not only lie in their philosophical questioning, but their artistic merit and audacious reflection of issues pertinent in human life of all ages.
Verse and Worse
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As playful as they are cerebral, McCaffery's poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning.
The Complete Poetry
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The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou's words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”. Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words.
In Our Own Tongues: Poetic voices of three generations of African-American Women
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This powerful and healing collection of poetry touches on a variety of experiences in the United States regarding emotional abuse, physical and sexual assaults, racism, lynchings, political issues as well as the permeating smell of magnolias.
Women's Poetry
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There is nothing like this book, because there is nothing in it but America. No comfort, no consolation, no life-affirming pats on the back, no despair about God, no fear or acceptance of death, no irrational exuberance, no guilt or weariness, no misery even in the middle of personal and political crisis. Plenty of humor and plenty of seriousness. Joy. And a new kind of poetry: not nice, but rich and real.
Angles of Ascent
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This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody
Angels of the Lyre: a gay poetry anthology
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The first in-depth anthology of Gay poetry is an exploration of Gay consciousness and the poetic being. There are many dimensions to Gayness and the poetry in this book explores the subtleties of these dimensions. Included are poems by fifty-seven contemporary American and Canadian poets, among them: Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Harold Norse, John Wieners, and Jonathan Williams. Graphic work by eight artists is also included.
Astonishing World: the selected poems of Ángel González, 1956-1986
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A bilingual edition of González' poetry, moving from poignant romantic images of rural Spain to cityscapes that serve as metaphors for the human condition.
Poetry: a Very Short Introduction
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In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry'-from the Greeks to the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poetry is for, and considers contemporary debates on its value. Is there a universality to poetry? And does it have a duty of public utility and responsibility?
The End of Chiraq
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: a bilingual anthology
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Here, under one cover, are the major poets and their major works, which appear both in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and in excellent English translations. The poems selected include the most famous representative poems of each poetic tradition, accompanied by other poems that represent the best of that tradition and of each poet's work within it.
Three Centuries of American Poetry
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Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen. These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time.
Chasing Utopia; A Hybrid
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But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food--food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory.
Of Poetry and Protest: from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
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This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths giving voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context.
The 100 Best African American Poems: (*but I cheated)
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Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist.
Poetical works
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The poems and numerous letters to fellow poets and friends are accompanied by biographical and textual notes
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
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From her earliest collection of poetry (Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, LJ 10/15/71) to her latest (On the Pulse of Morning, delivered at the inauguration of President Clinton on January 20, 1993), Angelou's work never fails to grip the imagination. In this anthology, she comments on love, traveling, and aging.
Complete poems, 1904-1962
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Find all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. In addition, 164 unpublished poems, issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera, have also been included.
Black Sister: poetry by black American women, 1746-1980
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Collects a wide range of poetry by Black women writers including Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
