Yogi heroes and poets : histories and legends of the Naths

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Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work by Moody, Anthony David

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Taking it like a man : white masculinity, masochism, and contemporary American culture by Savran, David, 1950-

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Writing on napkins at the Sunshine Club : an anthology of poets writing in Macon

Table of Contents: “….; West Willow; Hygiene; Gordon Johnston; Ties; Her FatherÌs Pants; Amanda Pecor; A Reply to AudenÌs Elegy for Yeats; Alpha; American Psalm; At the Cherry Blossom Festival, Mary Magdalene Explains Her Preference for the Dogwood; Edenic Interlude; Invitation; Life Story; Marian; Pink Parasol; Red; Romance; Sexual History; Used Car Lot; Anya Silver; To My Body; Persimmon; Canticle of the Washing Machine; Kelly Whiddon; A Modern Myth; Swans and Mosquitoes; by David Bottoms.…”
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Writing on napkins at the Sunshine Club : an anthology of poets writing in Macon

Table of Contents: “….; West Willow; Hygiene; Gordon Johnston; Ties; Her FatherÌs Pants; Amanda Pecor; A Reply to AudenÌs Elegy for Yeats; Alpha; American Psalm; At the Cherry Blossom Festival, Mary Magdalene Explains Her Preference for the Dogwood; Edenic Interlude; Invitation; Life Story; Marian; Pink Parasol; Red; Romance; Sexual History; Used Car Lot; Anya Silver; To My Body; Persimmon; Canticle of the Washing Machine; Kelly Whiddon; A Modern Myth; Swans and Mosquitoes; by David Bottoms.…”
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Mentor and muse : essays from poets to poets

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In the words of E.B. White : quotations from America's most companionable of writers by White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction: "A Simple and Sincere Account" -- E.B. White Chronology -- The Words of E.B. White -- Aging -- Airplanes -- Animals -- Atomic Age -- Automobiles -- Autumn -- Awards -- Babies -- Barn -- Bees -- Biography -- Birds -- Boats and Boating -- Books -- Cancer -- Capitalism -- Chickens -- Childhood -- Christmas -- City Life -- College -- Commerce -- Common Sense -- Counsel -- Country Life -- Courage -- Cows -- Critics -- Death -- Democracy -- Diplomacy -- Disarmament -- Dogs -- Doom -- Dreams -- Education -- Egg -- Elements of Style -- Endorsements -- English Usage -- Entertainment -- Equality -- Faith -- Family -- Farming -- Fatherhood -- Fear -- Freedom -- Freedom of Speech -- Friendship -- Future -- Gardening -- Government -- Grammar -- Gratitude -- Health -- Home -- Hope -- House -- Humor -- Hypochondria -- Junk Mail -- Justice -- Kennedy, John F. -- Landscape -- Language -- Leisure -- Letters -- Liberty -- Life -- Literature -- Love -- Loyalty -- Luck -- Maine -- Maine Speech -- Marriage -- Middle Age -- Miracles -- Moon -- Morning -- Nationalism -- Nature -- Newspapers -- New York City -- The New Yorker -- Nothing -- Passion -- Peace -- Photography -- Poets and Poetry -- Polls -- Pollution -- Possessions -- Prejudice -- Pseudonyms -- Public Speaking -- Quotations -- Railroads -- Rats -- Reading -- Religion -- Ross, Harold -- Sailing -- Science -- Sea -- Seasons -- Security -- Sex -- Skating -- Society -- Spelling -- Spiders -- Spring -- Style -- Summer -- Symbolism -- Taxes -- Telephone -- Television -- Terror -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Thurber, James -- Time -- War -- Weather -- Winter -- Words -- Work -- Worry -- Writing and Writers -- Youth -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Conversations with Natasha Trethewey

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Conversations with Natasha Trethewey

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Unseen cinema. 2, The devil's playground. Episode 11, The hearts of age

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How long is the present : selected talk poems of David Antin by Antin, David

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How long is the present : selected talk poems of David Antin by Antin, David

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Poetry in America. Musée des beaux arts by W.H. Auden

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Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing by Yaffe, David, 1973-

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Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing by Yaffe, David, 1973-

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When the Danube ran red by Ozsváth, Zsuzsanna, 1931-

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Country music : selected early poems by Wright, Charles, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: "Charles Wright's Country Music" by David St. John; Preface; The Grave of the Right Hand; Aubade; The Poet Grows Older; The Voyage; Nocturne; Storm; Hard Freight; Homage to Ezra Pound; Homage to Arthur Rimbaud; Homage to Baron Corvo; Homage to X; The New Poem; Portrait of the Poet in Abraham von Werdt's Dream; Chinoiserie; One Two Three; White; Firstborn; Slides of Verona; Grace; Negatives; The Fever Toy; Notes for Oscar Wilde at San Miniato; Oscar Wilde at San Miniato; Nocturne; Yellow; Dog Creek Mainline.…”
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Moments of despair : suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina by Silkenat, David

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The 2008 Pfeiffer annual : leadership development

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Solid air : Australian and New Zealand spoken word

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The world according to Itzik : selected poetry and prose by Manger, Itzik, 1901-1969

Table of Contents: “…Jacob Teaches the Story of Joseph to His SonsBathsheba -- King David and Abishag -- Abishag Writes a Letter Home -- Cain and Abel -- King David -- Songs of the Megillah -- Prologue -- Invocation -- The Song of the Runner -- How the Blessed Mordecai Found Favor in the Eyes of the King -- Queen Vashti -- The Kingâ€?…”
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A sense of regard : essays on poetry and race

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Happy Accidents : the Transformative Power of Yes, and at Work and Life. by Ahearn, David

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Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome

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Oscar Wilde in America : the interviews

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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 24, Race

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Critical rhythm : the poetics of a literary life form

Table of Contents: “…/ Jonathan Culler -- What is called rhythm? / David Nowell Smith -- Sordello's pristine pulpiness / Simon Jarvis -- The cadence of consent: Francis Barton Gummere, lyric rhythm, and white poetics / Virginia Jackson -- Contagious rhythm: verse as a technique of the body / Haun Saussy -- Constructing Walt Whitman: literary history and histories of rhythm / Erin Kappeler -- The rhythms of the English Dolnik / Derek Attridge -- How to find rhythm on a piece of paper / Thomas Cable -- Picturing rhythm / Meredith Martin -- Beyond meaning: differing fates of some modernist poets' investments of belief in sounds / Natalie Gerber -- Sapphic stanzas: how can we read the rhythm? …”
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Primer by Smith, Aaron, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…X X X; Ruined; Still Life with Gun; Notes for a Lecture: Keith Haring; Homosexuality; Ars Poetica; A Letter Regarding Your Recent Artwork; Liquid; Poem for Straight Guys; Like Him; Not All Faggots Bump Themselves off at the End of the Story; Middle School Summer; X X X; Blue Exits; X X X; Bleached; The Worried Well; College Summer; The Julianne Moore Collection; Jack White Gives Contract Advice to the Poet; Nothing; Takeout; New York Pretending to Be Paris; Born Again; Dirty; Still Life with Train; Boston: Late Summer; Shoot; This Exact Sky; X X X; This Unknown Buried in the Known.…”
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Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Light and abstraction

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Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans. by Rostkowski, Joelle

Table of Contents: “…Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota -- 8. Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico -- 9. …”
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Clairvoyant with Hunger. by Lieberman, Laurence

Table of Contents: “…Merwin: Apotheosis of the Lepers; Part 4; Igniting Sparks from Tamura's Smithy; The Beacon Light of Oshima; Portrait of the Poet; Part 5; On the Brink of Secession: Gwendolyn Brooks The Wall -- The Laggard Bird, by Dunya Mikhail; David Bottoms' Grueling Miracle: Faith in Middle Age; Part 6; Voice to Voice; The Pull of the Sentence: On My Influences; The Most Essential Element of All: An Interview with Laurence Lieberman.…”
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Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president

Table of Contents: “…Buchanan ; Lincoln on taxes / Charles Adams ; A predecessor's opposition / Peter Wallner ; Lincoln's White House / Harold Holzer ; Meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul Johnson ; Meeting Frederick Douglas / Michael Barone ; The transcontinental railroad / David Howard Bain ; Lincoln and the telegraph / Tom Wheeler ; Patriot, poet / Walter Berns ; Lincoln's writing / Wayne Fields ; War, weakness and the Cabinet / Richard Norton Smith ; 1863 : a most difficult year / Joseph E. …”
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What about Darwin? : all species of opinion from scientists, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discussed the naturalist who changed the world by Glick, Thomas F.

Table of Contents: “…Note continued: Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst / Ernest Jones -- English geologist / John Jones -- American zoologist / David Starr Jordan -- English physicist / James Prescott Joule -- English classicist and theologian / Benjamin Jowett -- Irish author / James Joyce -- English geologist / John Wesley Judd -- Swiss psychologist / Carl Jung -- K -- Austrian biologist / Paul Kammerer -- German Marxist theorist / Karl Kautsky -- English poet and social reformer / May Kendall -- English economist / John Maynard Keynes -- English sociologist / Benjamin Kidd -- African American clergyman / Martin Luther King Jr. -- English clergyman and novelist / Charles Kingsley -- English novelist / Henry Kingsley -- English author / Rudyard Kipling -- Russian biologist / Alexander O. …”
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The colours of our flag : poems by Horwitz, Allan Kolski

Table of Contents: “…MANGWAPANI -- ON THE BANK OF A BROWN RIVER -- THE FATE OF REVOLUTIONARY POETS -- STEADY -- LINING UP -- SCORING -- HUMAN INVENTION/EXTINCTION -- FROM THE AIR -- BEADS OF DELIGHT -- IN THE MEANWHILE -- E FOR ESCAPE -- WHITE HAIR -- SILVER -- REFLECTIONS ON SUICIDE -- Q & A -- DEFENCE AND ATTACK -- DOES NOTHING MATTER -- INFORMATION GATHERING -- DANDELIONS IN THE DESERT -- STRATIS THALASSINOS -- MIGRATING DESIRE -- JACKAL HUNT -- FALLING INTO SLEEP GLADLY -- JERICO -- AT THE ROUND EARTH S IMAGINED CORNERS -- RED SEA CORAL -- ANTHONY TO CLEOPATRA -- SUNDAY POETRY SALON -- SUPERAMA SUNSET…”
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Still beating the drum : critical perspectives on Lewis Nkosi

Table of Contents: “…The literary critic : Lewis Nkosi as Literary Critic / Annie Gagiano -- Lewis Nkosi's Early Literary Criticism / Chris Wanjala -- Lewis Nkosi: A Commentary Piece / Oyekan Owomoyela -- The dramatist and poet: Contaminations: BBC Radio and the Black Artist -- Lewis Nkosi's "The Trial" and "We Can't All be Martin Luther King" / Liz Gunner -- Hostage Drama: The Rhythm of Violence and Some Comments on "The Black Psychiatrist" / Sikhumbuzo Mngadi -- Psychoanalysis and Apartheid: The Image and Role of the Psychiatrist in Selected Works of Lewis Nkosi / Astrid Starck-Adler -- The Desire of Knowledge, or, the Body in Excess: Lewis Nkosi's Play "The Black Psychiatrist" / Therese Steffen -- An Introduction to the Poetry of Lewis Nkosi / Litzi Lombardozzi -- The novelist: "Bathing Area -- For Whites Only": Reading Prohibitive Signs and "Black Peril" in Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds / Lucy Graham -- The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds Revisited in Post-Apartheid Durban / Lindy Stiebel.…”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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Paper bridges : selected poems of Kadya Molodowsky by Molodowsky, Kadia, 1894-1975

Table of Contents: “…In land fun mayn gebeyn (In the Country of My Bones), Chicago, 1937 -- My Ultimate Biography -- When Nobody Calls Me -- At the Threshold -- In the Country of My Bones -- A White Poet -- In My Hand Two Feathers from a Pheasant -- Alphabet Letters -- Legacy -- VII. …”
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Hard lines : rough south poetry

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Arabic stories for language learners : traditional Middle Eastern tales in Arabic and English by Brosh, Hezi, Manṣūr, Luṭfī

Table of Contents: “…He Returned Empty-Handed -- The Wise Judge -- Don't Sell Cheap -- Tabaqa Was Suitable for Shan -- The Bedouin and the Desert -- The Wisdom of the Prophet David -- The White Elephant -- Learn How to Protect Yourself -- Muhammad Afandi -- More Eloquent than Sahban -- The Seduction of Al-Sha'bi -- The Leader Ibn Sina Visits One of the Prisons -- CD guide -- Backcover.…”
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Baltimore sports : stories from Charm City

Table of Contents: “…Till Death Do Us Part: The Grand Tour of Baltimore's Graveyard Greats / David Zang -- 2. Jockeying for Position: The Preakness Stakes, Pimlico, and Baltimore / Ari de Wilde -- 3. …”
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