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The P.F.P. Poetry Tree

The P.F.P. Poetry Tree

Alliance Poets World-Wide

This is the latest P.F.P. book by the Alliance poets instigated by George L. Ellison challenging Poets to compose a poem from a poem... The inspired results all make a delightful read and the book another one to treasure
Favourite Poet's Poems 2016

Favourite Poet's Poems 2016

Alliance Poets World-Wide

This is the ninth book in the popular favorite Poets Poems Anthologies...
The Ardis anthology of new American poetry

The Ardis anthology of new American poetry

David Rigsbee

MICHAEL BERRYHILL Rhetoric With it, Plato thought poets might rule the world. Something's gone awry. Throw it overboard poets say. We'll have nothing left but the word shining, a thing itself. Sunlight will simply shine through that window.
Muse To Move

Muse To Move

Poets World-Wide

This wonderful anthology book features twenty-five world-wide poets all moved with the inspiration of sharing words their words of "love" ""life"" and ""Living!
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English

The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English

Paula Burnett

Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world.
A Book of women poets from antiquity to now

A Book of women poets from antiquity to now

Aliki Barnstone

Spans four thousand years and the world's major civilizations to anthologize verses by women ranging from Enheduanna, a second millennium B.C. Sumerian princess, to the medieval poets Marie de France and Florencia de Pinar, to noteworthy ...
Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co: Middle-generation Poets in ...

Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co: Middle-generation Poets in ...

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Essay in the first section of the book directly compare the subjects, while sections on each of the poets follow. The contributors unpack received wisdom on the poets, revising and updating our conceptions.
The Music of what Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics

The Music of what Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics

Helen Vendler

This collection of recent essays addresses general issues in poetry criticism, discusses the work of major contemporary poets, and introduces the work of newer poets
Contemporary world order: a Vedic perspective

Contemporary world order: a Vedic perspective

World Association for Vedic Studies. India Conference

A poet creates a new and beautiful world. Philid Sydney in his Apologia for Poetry says that the world of Mother Nature is made of brass, but poets. THE RELATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND KAVYA Sundari Siddhartha HINDU DHARMA AND ...
Faber and Faber Poetry Diary 2017

Faber and Faber Poetry Diary 2017

Various Poets

In recent years the creation of the Poet-to-Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry to include the work of great poets from the past, selected and introduced by the contemporary poets they have inspired.
Lives of the Poets: The History of Poets and Poetry

Lives of the Poets: The History of Poets and Poetry

Michael Schmidt

LIVES OF THE POETS traverses the landscapes of biography, form, cultural pressures and important historical moments to tell not just a history of English poetry, but the story of English as a language. 'Astonishing' New York Times.
Poets as Heretics: Essays on Poetry

Poets as Heretics: Essays on Poetry

Bruce Woodcock

A volume of essays on the theme of the political imagination, covering a range of poets and poetry including: Sean O'Brien, Tony Harrison, Thom Gunn, Paul Durcan, Derek Walcott, Caribbean women poets (including Louise Bennett, Jackie Kay, ...
World Healing, World Peace 2012: a Poetry Anthology : Vol I

World Healing, World Peace 2012: a Poetry Anthology : Vol I

Poets World

Eva Xanthopoulos Eva is a 22 year old Greco-American spoken and written word poet from Ohio. Her epic journey of creativity started ever since she could pick up a crayon. Art has coursed through her veins since the beginning of her ...
The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets

The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets

Michael Schmidt

'Every poet should buy a copy of this book to keep on their bookshelves. And, when the occasion arises, they should throw it at the cynic who may try to ignore or demean them' Independent.
2011 Poet's Market

2011 Poet's Market

Robert Lee Brewer

Provides poets with information on more than one thousand commercial and literary markets for their work, details of payments and submission guidelines, interviews with poets, publishers, and editors
The Poetic Bond II

The Poetic Bond II

Various Poets

This collection of poems is the work of a group of poets mostly connected through the global professional networking websiteLinkedIn.com, and in particular, but not exclusively, the LinkedIn group called, “Poetry, Review and Discuss ...
Poets Thinking

Poets Thinking

Helen Vendler

The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic.
A Caribbean dozen: poems from Caribbean poets

A Caribbean dozen: poems from Caribbean poets

John Agard

Thirteen Caribbean poets recount childhood experiences in poetry and prose.
Penguin Modern Poets 1: If I'm Scared We Can't Win

Penguin Modern Poets 1: If I'm Scared We Can't Win

Emily Berry

Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment. ". . .
Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey ...

Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey ...

James H. Carrott

Bell, Genevieve, Why Now?, How an Anthropologist Changed the World: Genevieve Bell–The Romantic Poets of the Information Age, How an Anthropologist Changed the World: Genevieve Bell,Howan Anthropologist Changed the World: ...
Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors

Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors

Neil Corcoran

In this collection, poets and professors explore different aspects of Dylan's work, writing about his impact on their own intellectual and artistic lives, as well as his wider influence.
Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and ...

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and ...

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chapter 5 A POETIC POSSESSION: PINDAR'S LIVES OF THE POETS anna uhlig What does it mean to write a life? For most of us, our initial tendency is to conceive of biography in terms of genre. We look, with Momigliano, for 'an account of ...
The Songs of England and Scotland ...

The Songs of England and Scotland ...

Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham. THE LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COLERIDGE. BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Each volume to be illustrated with four or five finely engraved heads of popular poets, after the most authentic pictures; ...
A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations

A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations

Jerome Rothenberg

A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931 (1974).
Dante, Poet of the Secular World

Dante, Poet of the Secular World

Erich Auerbach

A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the ...
Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self

Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self

Terence Diggory

This work is designed to show a double influence: first, that of American poets, especially Whitman, on W. B. Yeats, and, second, of Yeats on a wide range of American poets who began their careers during the first decades of the century.
The Artistic Muses: Inspiration From Various Poets

The Artistic Muses: Inspiration From Various Poets

Eva Xanthopoulos

... and begin to sweat Perception penetrates murk With silver echoes Gyrating. Swag... Swing We... Poet Sip Grande Mocha Kachina IfGreece had ten heroes like him, it would not have. 17 The Artistic Muses: Inspiration From Various Poets.

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