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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading and the theory of reading -- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading -- Dante and the invention of the novel reader -- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading -- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. …”
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Kindler of souls Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas / by Cohen, Henry, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…From Torah to Tennyson -- Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Little Jerusalem -- Planting roots -- The storm and its impact -- From health to horror -- "Through the gateway of Galveston" -- "Dear graduates" : on being a rabbi -- From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Prison reform : the rabbi and the convict -- Family matters and memory : 1930-1950 -- The rabbi and his times -- Appendix : selected poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen.…”
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Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion by Henriksen, Erin

Table of Contents: “…: rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems -- The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost -- Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation -- Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes -- Epilogue: Broken and whole.…”
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Blue studios poetry and its cultural work / by DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Table of Contents: “…Reader, I married me : becoming a feminist critic -- F-words : an essay on the essay -- Blue studio : gender arcades -- Manifests -- Marble paper : toward a feminist "history of poetry" -- Propounding modernist maleness : how Pound managed a muse -- Lorine Niedecker, the anonymous : gender, class, genre, and resistances -- The gendered marvelous : Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception -- "Uncannily in the open" : in light of Oppen -- On Drafts : a memorandum of understanding -- Haibun : "draw your draft" -- Inside the middle of a long poem.…”
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Crazy wisdom saves the world again! handbook for a spiritual revolution : featuring "The evolution sutra" and "Be here wow!" / by Nisker, Wes

Table of Contents: “…-- The fact of the matter -- DNA by the numbers -- Sub-subatomic physics -- A fool's paradise -- Busy dying -- "Poem": why I meditate -- The evolution sutra -- Hello earthling -- The divine DNA -- Survive or die -- Your mama is a germ -- Past and future lives -- New animal on the block -- The kisser -- Humans double-wise, double wise -- Be here wow! …”
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A voice for Earth American writers respond to the Earth Charter /

Table of Contents: “…Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.…”
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Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 by Strouse, A. W.

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Ballad of the Buried Life / by Hagelstange, Rudolf

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Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / by McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.…”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. …”
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Graham R Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters / by Hughes, Linda K.

Table of Contents: “…Birth and childhood, 1860-74 -- Marriage, maternity, and first poems : Tares (1884) -- Losing Rosamond Armytage, becoming Graham R. …”
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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / by Watson, Sonja Stephenson

Table of Contents: “…National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernandez -- Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquin Beleno's Canal Zone Trilogy -- Revising the canon: historical revisionism in Cubena's trilogy -- West Indian/Caribbean consciousness in works by Melva Lowe de Goodin, Gerardo Maloney, Carlos Wilson, and Carlos E. …”
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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism / by Keirstead, Christopher M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Arnold, Europe, and the (future) destinations of Victorian poetry -- Letter from Europe : the epistolary interventions of Clough's Amours de voyage -- Barrett Browning and the spaces of cosmofeminism : from Casa Guidi windows to "Mother and poet" -- Browning at the border : Red cotton night-cap country -- Bodies in translation : Swinburne's Poems and ballads and the Fleshly School of cosmopolitanism -- Affinity versus isolation : cosmopolitanism and the racial dynamics of Morris's Europe -- Europe in perspective : the dynasts -- Conclusion : "Argosies of magic sails" : cosmopolitan dreams and challenges.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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The eye of the eagle John Donne and the legacy of Ignatius Loyola / by Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- John donne criticism and the Ignatian legacy -- Discretion and Ignatius's spiritual exercises in Donne's times -- Mental prayer, discretion and Donne's early religious poems -- Essays in divinity, discretion and the spiritual exercises -- Donne's biblical exegesis -- Donne's theology -- Donne's ecclesiology -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. …”
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How did poetry survive? the making of modern American verse / by Newcomb, John Timberman

Table of Contents: “…A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.…”
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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography by Baron, Christopher A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus -- "Just Like a Schoolboy" : Timaeus and His Speeches -- Generic Choices : The Shape of Timaeus' Histories -- Herodotean Historiography in the Hellenistic Age -- Appendix A: New Delimitations or Translations -- Appendix B: Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.…”
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History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by Lowney, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.…”
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Poetry into song performance and analysis of lieder / by Stein, Deborah J. (Deborah Jane)

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On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy : A Guide for the Unruly / by Bruns, Gerald L.

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