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5) Good poems
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Overview: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features...
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2016.
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1 online resource (114 pages)
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TARTESSOS AND OTHER CITIES is Claire Millikin's second poetry collection published by 2Leaf Press, which continues her exploration of homelessness. In this work, Millikin employs the emotional depth of poetry to convey feelings related to homelessness and loss. The title refers to Tartessos, a once-thriving city along the Guadalquivir River in Andalusia, Spain, believed to have been destroyed by a catastrophic tidal wave in ancient times. The poems...
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Relatively unknown in his own lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins is the now accredited as the author of some of the finest and most complex poems in the English language. As a Victorian poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, Hopkins pioneered a revolutionary form of meter he termed "sprung rhythm" in his first major work, "The Wreck of the Deutschland." This poem, like most of Hopkins' work, reflects both his belief in the doctrine that human...
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2017.
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1 online resource (54 pages)
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This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22-26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Ancient Enmity." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented...






