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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Publisher: Dover Publications: Sep-96

Seller ID: 55181

ISBN: 486292746

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize

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Publisher: Turtle Point Press / Books & Co: Apr-00

Seller ID: 439490

ISBN: 1885983158

Binding: Hardcover

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Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels. Published in partnership with The Academy of American Poets.
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The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

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Publisher: Berkley: Jul-62

Seller ID: 442594

ISBN: 451627911

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry

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Publisher: Columbia University Press: Apr-82

Seller ID: 447504

ISBN: 023105419x

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Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor among them.
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Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan

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Publisher: New Rivers Press: Nov-18

Seller ID: 458667

ISBN: 898233771

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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Price: $1.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: Sep-96

Seller ID: 454531

ISBN: 486292746

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The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: Dec-08

Seller ID: 460319

ISBN: 199556296

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Poems from the Women's Movement: (American Poets Project #28)

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Publisher: Library of America: Apr-09

Seller ID: 460606

ISBN: 1598530429

Binding: Hardcover

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"In 1965, Sylvia Plath's posthumous Ariel took the literary world by storm with its fierce and undeniably female voice. For the next 15 years, America saw a historic outpouring of women's poetry supported by and supporting the women's movement. As editor Moore points out, poetry was vital to the movement, articulating previously unexpressed lives, empowering others as the poets found their own power. . . . And all who missed these missiles and epistles then will find them still demanding and invigorating."--Booklist (starred review)

"What would happen if one woman told the tr...
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Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs (American Poets Project)

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Publisher: Library of America: Apr-10

Seller ID: 467068

ISBN: 1598530704

Binding: Hardcover

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Stephen Foster is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including "Oh Susanna," "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River..."), and "My Old Kentucky Home," and his parlor ballads, such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Beautiful Dreamer," have inspired composers, songwriters, and performers from Charles Ives and George Gershwin to Ray Charles and James Taylor. Foster devoted as much care and craft to his lyrics as he did to his timeless melodies.

In this comprehensive new selection, acclaimed music historian Ken Emerson introduces and a...
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American Sonnets: an Anthology: (American Poets Project #25)

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Publisher: Library of America: Oct-07

Seller ID: 467070

ISBN: 1598530151

Binding: Hardcover

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When American poets turn to the sonnet, they invest it with a glamour and intensity equal to anything they have to show in more flamboyant, new-minted shapes. Like a symphony by Copland or a nude by de Kooning, an American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and expansiveness. Something old and familiar--the themes and schemes and history of the 14-line lyric--becomes something new, vital, and characteristically American.

This unique anthology presents one critic's selection from two centuries of American sonnets. Some of David Bromwich's choices--Hart Crane'...
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