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Satan Repentant by Michael Aiken
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Category: Fiction | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
A violent epic leaping from the cosmological to the infinitesimal, Satan Repentant is a modern-day drama of revenge, resentment, and remorse, telling a new myth of what would happen if Satan tried to apologise and atone for all his crimes. Through that story, it explores ideas of power, of authority to ...Show more
Sea, Land, Shadow by Shiraishi, Kazuko, Tsumura, Yumiko
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Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixty-years, from 1951 to 2015. Shiraishi, described by Don ...Show more
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Pleiade Ser.
Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot; Seamus Heaney (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this c ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library, Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Gathers sonnets, odes, poems, and selections of Prometheus Unbound by the early-nineteenth-century British poet.
Selected Poetry and Prose by Mew, Charlotte and Copus, Julia(Edited by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The best of Charlotte Mew's poetry and prose selected by Julia Copus, in the 150th anniversary of Mew's birth.
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
Shambhala Anthology Of Chinese Poetry by James Cryer (Translator); J. P. Seaton
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Ser.
In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shi ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways d ...Show more