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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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Berber culture on the world stage from village to video / by Goodman, Jane E., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Circuits -- The Berber Spring -- Refracting Berber identities -- The mythical village -- Texts -- Collecting poems -- Authoring modernity -- Copyright matters -- Performances -- Staging gender -- Village to video.…”
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The poetry of the self-taught an eighteenth-century phenomenon / by Prandi, Julie D., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Backgrounds of self-taught poets -- What self-taught means for poetic form -- The aesthetics of the self-taught -- Patronage in poetry -- Analyses of social inequality -- Winter poems.…”
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The Confessional Imagination : A Reading of Wordsworth's Prelude / by McConnell, Frank D., 1942-1999

Table of Contents: “…The poem to Coleridge -- The sense of the human -- The tyrant eye -- Edenic words -- Appendix One. …”
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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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Conditions by Badiou, Alain

Table of Contents: “…or address, transmission, inscription -- The philosophical recourse to the poem -- Mallarmé's method : subtraction and isolation -- Rimbaud's method : interruption -- Philosophy and mathematics -- On subtraction -- Truth : forcing and unnameable -- Philosophy and politics -- What is love? …”
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A poetics of courtly male friendship in Heian Japan by Schalow, Paul Gordon

Table of Contents: “…Poems to sing and the hope for transcendence -- Paradigms of friendship in the Tale of Ise -- Poetic sequence in the Kagerō diary -- The Tale of Genji : "Two cranes flying wing to wing" --The Uji chapters : "Maidens of the bridge."…”
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Mandelstam by Lekmanov, O. A.

Table of Contents: “…Before the first "Stone" (1891-1913) -- Between "Stone" (1913) and "Tristia" (1922) -- Between "Tristia" (1922) and "Poems" (1928) -- Before the arrest (1928-1934) -- Final years (1934-1938).…”
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Betwixt engelaunde and englene londe dialogic poetics in early religious lyric / by Kowalik, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Dramatic interactions in dialogue lyrics and dialogic groups of lyrics -- Cultural transactions in prayer poems -- A latent metaphysics of communication -- In lieu of conclusion: continuations of dialogic poetics in Renaissance religious lyric.…”
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Michael Ondaatje by Spinks, Lee, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Contexts and intertexts -- The early poems -- The collected works of Billy the Kid -- Coming through slaughter -- Running in the family -- In the skin of a lion -- The English patient -- Anil's ghost -- Critical overview and conclusion.…”
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Geoffrey Hill and his contexts

Table of Contents: “…Hill's uncollected Oxford poems / Steven Matthews -- The manuscripts and composition of Genesis / Piers Pennington -- Beside the point: a diligence of accidentals / Charles Lock -- Hill's conversions / Kathryn Murphy -- Milton and Eliot in the work of Geoffrey Hill / Michael Molan -- Hill and nineteenth-century linguistic thought / Matthew Sperling -- Hill, Ruskin, and intrinsic value / Marcus Waithe -- The Tenebrae poems of Paul Celan and Geoffrey Hill / Sheridan Burnside -- Hill and Gillian Rose / Matthew Paskins -- Music's invocation: music and history in Geoffrey Hill / Hugh Haughton -- Perplexed persistence: the criticism of Geoffrey Hill -- Kenneth Haynes.…”
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Eugene Onegin by Fisher, Burton D.

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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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Laureates and heretics six careers in American poetry : Yvor Winters, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, Robert Hass, John Matthias, John Peck / by Archambeau, Robert Thomas, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Yvor Winters : a journey into the dark -- Robert Pinsky : American laureate -- James McMichael : caging the demon -- Robert Hass : statement and image -- John Matthias : homing poems -- John Peck : the road to Zurich.…”
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Coming after essays on poetry / by Notley, Alice, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Poets -- O'Hara in the nineties -- Joanne Kyger's poetry -- Ron Padgett's visual imagination -- Hollo's Corvus -- Elmslie's routine disruptions -- Eileen Myles in performance -- A certain slant of sunlight -- Iovis Omnia Plena -- Lorenzo Thomas : a private public space -- Douglas Oliver's New York poem -- Steve -- Topics -- American poetic music at the moment -- Voice -- Thinking and poetry -- Women and poetry -- The "feminine" epic.…”
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Being numerous poetry and the ground of social life / by Izenberg, Oren

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: poems, poetry, personhood -- White thin bone: Yeatsian personhood -- Oppen's silence, Crusoe's silence, and the silence of other minds -- The justice of my feelings for Frank O'Hara -- Language poetry and collective life -- We are reading.…”
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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

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Wordsworth's ethics by Potkay, Adam, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Audition and attachment -- Close encounters (i) -- Close encounters (ii) -- The ethics of things -- Music vs. conscience -- Captivation and liberty in poems on music -- The moral sublime -- Independence and interdependence -- Surviving death -- The poetics of life -- Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.…”
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The music of thought in the poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk by Weinfield, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Oppen, Bronk, and the story behind "a narrative" -- Because the known and the unknown touch : a reading of Oppen's "Of being numerous" -- In the drift of the world : a reading of Bronk's Life supports: new and collected poems -- Oppen's reoccupation of traditional lyric in "Eclogue," "Psalm," and "Ballad."…”
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