Category: Poetry

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers : August 2005

Seller ID: 185363

ISBN-13: 9780897330442

The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, "The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle the British artistic achievement of the 1890s. In this revised edition of a classic anthology, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" has been included in its entirety; the bibliography has been completely updated; Professor Beckson's notes and commentar...
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Library of America : October 2020

Seller ID: 153583

ISBN-13: 9781598536669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to America...
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American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker

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Publisher: Library of America : March 2000

Seller ID: 166991

ISBN-13: 9781883011772

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry through the post-War years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy. This first volume of the set, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from Henry Adams (1838-1918) to Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), and in the process reveals the unfolding of a ...
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American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson

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Publisher: Library of America : March 2000

Seller ID: 166999

ISBN-13: 9781883011789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close." -- Talk This second volume of the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) to May Swenson (1913-1989). In the wake of the modernist renaissance, American poets continued to experiment w...
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American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Library of America : March 2000

Seller ID: 192969

ISBN-13: 9781883011789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close." -- Talk This second volume of the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) to May Swenson (1913-1989). In the wake of the modernist renaissance, American poets continued to experiment w...
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman

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Publisher: Library of America : October 1993

Seller ID: 166964

ISBN-13: 9780940450608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America's American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronologically from the classic couplets of Philip Freneau to the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman, this first volume charts the...
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals

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Publisher: Library of America : September 1993

Seller ID: 166983

ISBN-13: 9780940450783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This second volume of The Library of America's two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War--reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation--ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering Af...
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American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Library of America #178)

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Publisher: The Library of America : October 2007

Seller ID: 164929

ISBN-13: 9781931082907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This groundbreaking Library of America volume offers a fresh look at early American poetry, charting its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of George Washington. Gathering the work of more than 100 poets--including many poems never previously anthologized and some published here for the first time--it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled, a celebration of the rich, varied, and often surprising beginnings of American poetry. The range of voices is unprecedented: broadside and newspape...
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Anthology of Black Humor

Price: $13.48

Publisher: City Lights Publishers : January 2001

Seller ID: 185364

ISBN-13: 9780872863217

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers--Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton's selections are often surprising)--many others are sure to come as a revelation.The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the th...
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Art & Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry

Price: $9.48

Publisher: Bulfinch : November 1992

Seller ID: 193275

ISBN-13: 9780821219799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An elegant new poetry anthology taking nature as its inspiration.
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Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems

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Publisher: University of Michigan Press : November 1996

Seller ID: 104024

ISBN-13: 9780472066339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This unique anthology has as its focus the notion of form in contemporary poetry. No subject has attracted more vigorous discussion within the community of poets and critics in the past ten years. If we are to understand what form is and how it shapes poetic expression, we must turn to the poems themselves for clues. And if we are very lucky, we can listen to the voice of the poets who wrote them. In Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms, contemporary poets have selected one poem, commenting on the occasion of its creation and on the form the poem eventually took. Originally published in 1987 ...
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Found Anew: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections (Palmetto Poetry Series, Story River Books)

Price: $39.95

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : November 2015

Seller ID: 63512

ISBN-13: 9781611175646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Found Anew is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library. In their eclectic approach to ekphrasis--textual response to the visual--editors R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus have recruited an impressive group of poets and fiction writers, including National Book Award-winning poets Terrance Hayes and Nikky Finney (who provides the foreword); their fellow South Carolina Academy of Authors honorees Gilbert All...
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Gents, Bad Boys, And Barbarians

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Publisher: Alyson Books : January 1995

Seller ID: 193161

ISBN-13: 9781555832568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race

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Publisher: Muddy Ford Press LLC : February 2017

Seller ID: 85027

ISBN-13: 9781942081098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this collection of poetry, curated by South Carolina poets Len Lawson and Al Black, fellow poets speak to the role of race both in their 21st century worlds and the worlds they inherited from the past. Beautiful and profane, these words and the images they evoke allow the reader the opportunity to assess where we are as a culture, how far we've come, and how far we need to go. Dasan Ahanu, Marcus Amaker, Jennifer Bartell, Al Black, Bernard Block, Kim Blum-Hyclak, Roger Bonair-Agard, Fran Cardwell, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Tiana Clark, Julia Dawson, Kenneth Denk, Worthy Evans, Nancy F...
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (Penguin Classics)

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Publisher: Penguin Classics : January 2010

Seller ID: 185370

ISBN-13: 9780140424737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet's battle to leave earthly love behind. These translations capture the passion of the original poetry and are accom...
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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 2021

Seller ID: 157479

ISBN-13: 9780393867916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project--including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others--to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The c...
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Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 51494

ISBN: 281ALV1001068

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Like New

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Nightboat Books : April 2018

Seller ID: 166413

ISBN-13: 9781937658786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history, including literary legends such as Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Ai, and Pat Parker alon...
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