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Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! / by Hassan, Ann

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Father of Persian Verse : Rudaki and his Poetry / by Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The poetry of Rudaki -- Elegies -- Panegyric poems -- Poems of complaint -- Meditations on life, death and destiny -- Love and its afflictions -- Nature poems -- Wine poems -- Rubāʻiyāt.…”
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Shared waters soundings in postcolonial literatures /

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Address by Willis, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Address -- Take this poem -- Nocturne -- Friday -- Ballad -- A species is an idea (1) -- F.A.Q. -- Valet of the shadow of death -- Unseasonable pastoral -- Flow chart -- Poisonous plants of America -- The witch -- Still life with tornado -- Wooded tributary -- The oldest garden in the world -- Vernacular architecture -- Ruskin -- Another life in green -- Yesness Park -- Sonnet -- You've lost your card -- This is not a poem about Katherine Harris -- Year-end review -- January -- Blasted hymn -- May day -- Exquisite replica -- Sonnet -- Extended forecast -- A species is an idea (2) -- Triptik -- Classified -- Incidental knowledge -- Blacklist -- In strength and sweetness.…”
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The Theory of Criticism : A Tradition and Its System / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…The problem: the limits and capacities of critical theory -- The vanity of theory and its value -- Preliminary questions and suggested answers -- The critic as person and persona -- The humanistic theoretical tradition -- The deceptive opposition between mimetic and expressive theories -- Form and the humanistic aesthetic -- Fiction, history, and empirical reality: the hourglass and the sands of time -- A systematic extension -- The aesthetic as the anthropological: the breath of the word and the weight of the world -- Poetics reconstructed: the presence of the poem.…”
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My brother, my sister by Burns, Loretta

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Poems / by Loretta Burns -- pt. 2. Poems / by Bill F. …”
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The messianic reduction Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / by Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.…”
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Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Decolonizing the transpacific: settler colonialism and indigenous resistance -- "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / Rebecca H. …”
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The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret / by Muret, Marc-Antoine, 1526-1585

Table of Contents: “…Liminary poems : the poems of introduction -- Muret's Praefatio to Jean de Brinon -- Elegies ; Commentary on the elegies -- Satires ; Commentary on the satires -- Epigrams ; Commentary on the epigrams -- Epistles ; Commentary on the epistles -- Odes ; Commentary on the odes.…”
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Tendi : six examples of a Swahili classical verse form with translations & notes / by Allen, J. W. T.

Table of Contents: “…Utendi wa Mwana Kupona (Mwana Kupona's poem).--Utendi wa ngamia na paa (The camel and the gazelle).…”

Twenty first century blues by Cecil, Richard, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- The diver -- Final exercise--the rain poem -- November's advice -- Flying home -- Twenty-first century blues.…”
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Parmenides and to eon reconsidering muthos and logos / by Wilkinson, Lisa Atwood

Table of Contents: “…A route to Homer -- Homeric or sung speech -- Reconsidering Xenophanes -- Rreconsidering speech -- Parmenides' poem -- The way it seems.…”
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Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead by Dayton, Tim, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Muriel Rukeyser and the Gauley Tunnel tragedy -- Introductory poems and lyrical monologues -- The documentary poems -- The meditations and a coda -- The critical reception of The book of the dead -- The book of the dead : a vision of history -- Silicosis in our town by Martha Millett -- Muriel Rukeyser- U.S. 1 by John Wheelwright -- Radio interview of Muriel Rukeyser by Samuel Sillen.…”
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Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare / by Weber, Elisabeth, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : shocks of recognition -- Torture was the essence of National-Socialism : reading Jean Amery Today -- Living-with-torture-together -- Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp -- Guantánamo poems -- Ages of cruelty : Jacques Derrida, Fethi Benslama, and their challenges to psychoanalysis -- Kill boxes : Kafka's beetles, drones -- Afterword / by Richard Falk.…”
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Hearing Sappho in New Orleans the call of poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward / by Salvaggio, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Early callings -- pt. 2. Calling up poems and places.…”
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A careful longing the poetics and problems of nostalgia / by Santesso, Aaron, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Elegiac and pastoral nostalgia -- Gray and the emergence of the modern nostalgia poem -- Varieties of historical nostalgia from Gray to Beattie -- Goldsmith and the poetics of nostalgia -- Cowper, Crabbe, and mock-nostalgia.…”
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Browning, Victorian poetics and the romantic legacy challenging the personal voice / by Martens, Britta, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Youthful romanticism reviewed -- Beyond the romantic long poem : Sordello -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : model and countermodel -- Reclaiming visionary lyricism -- The poet under pressure : the ring and the book -- Victorian taste and romantic imitators.…”
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The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere by Kennedy, David, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary British ekphrastic poem -- pt. 3. Ekphrasis and the female -- pt. 4. …”
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The sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides by Wilson, Walter T.

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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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