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Tropical town and other poems by Selva, Salomón de la, 1893-1959

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Outlaw style poems / by Smith, R. T.

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Soundless roar stories, poems, and drawings / by Schieber, Ava Kadishson

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We Jews and Blacks memoir with poems / by Barnstone, Willis, 1927-

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Peace is our profession : poems and passages of war protest /

Turn me loose the unghosting of Medgar Evers : poems / by Walker, Frank X., 1961-

“…Poems.…”
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"Bright unequivocal eye" poems, papers, and remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference /

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Publishing Blackness : Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Let the World Be a Black Poem? : Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts /…”
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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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Places in the bone a memoir / by Dine, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The tape in the drawer -- The locked box -- Bad girls -- The woman in my poem -- Treatments -- Sisters -- Reconstruction -- The mahogany box -- Talking to God -- Exile -- Dear mother -- Places in the bone -- A chain of women -- Lovers and sons -- In remission -- The lighthouse.…”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. …”
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Madison's music : on reading the First Amendment / by Neuborne, Burt, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Reading the First Amendment as a Poem -- Why Reading the First Amendment Isn't Easy -- Madison's Music : Lost and Found -- The First Amendment as a Narrative of Democracy -- Madison's Music Restored : Recovering Madison's Democracy-Friendly First Amendment -- The Democracy-Friendly First Amendment in Action -- Mr. …”
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The Emerson brothers a fraternal biography in letters / by Bosco, Ronald A.

Table of Contents: “…"What poems are many private lives": the Emerson brothers -- William in Germany -- Edward and Charles -- Aunt Mary and the brothers Emerson -- Charles and Elizabeth -- William and Waldo: finances and family.…”
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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

Table of Contents: “…The crash of 1929 and the Great Depression : three long poems -- Existential crisis : the sonnet and self-fashioning in the Black poetry of the 1930s -- "Race war" : African American poetry on the Italo-Ethiopian war -- Concluding note.…”
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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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Poetry's Afterlife : Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The hammer -- Voice: what you say and how readers hear it -- Why kids hate poetry -- Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems -- [4.] After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.…”
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Tonality as drama closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Money and modernity Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Tonality as Drama : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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