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  • The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry

    Edited by Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, Joseph Bathanti ...
    Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many modern and postmodern American poets. Some of them, including Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov, appeared in Donald Allen’s groundbreaking ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Movies in the Age of Obama

    The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema

    by Linda Belau, Thomas Britt, Sonya C. Brown, Brian E. Butler, Ed Cameron, Kwakiutl L. Dreher, Rodney M. D. Fierce, Andrew Grossman, Peter C. Grosvenor, Blake G. Hobby, David M. Jones, Victoria McCollum, Robert McParland, doug morris, Salvador Jiménez Murguía, Irina Negrea, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Sohinee Roy, Alisha Saiyed, Cammie Sublette ...
    The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them for casting their ballots in his favor. In addition to reflecting the changing political climate, Obama ... Read more

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  • How Lovely the Ruins

    Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

    Edited by Annie Chagnot, Emi Ikkanda ...
    This wide-ranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, and the courage to persevere.In times of personal hardship or collective anxiety, words have the power to provide comfort, meaning, and hope. The past year has seen a resurgence of poetry and inspiring quotes—posted on social media, appearing on bestseller lists, shared from friend to friend. ... Read more

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  • The Best American Poetry 2009

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by David Wagoner, David Lehman ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry—"a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Eagerly anticipated by scholars, students, readers, and poets alike, Scribner’s Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world, serving as a yearly guide to who’s who in American ... Read more

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  • The Best American Poetry 2010

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by Amy Gerstler, David Lehman ...
    **AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of *The Best American Poetry.***The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today. Featuring poems from some of our country’s top bards, including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, ... Read more

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  • The Open Door

    100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine

    Edited by Don Share, Christian Wiman ...
    "If readers would like to sample the genius and diversity of American poetry in the last century, there's no better place to start." — World Literature TodayWhen Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first ... Read more

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  • Short

    An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms

    Edited by Alan Ziegler ...
    Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) ... Read more

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  • Best of the Best American Poetry

    25th Anniversary Edition

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    Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume ... Read more

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  • Great American Prose Poems

    From Poe to the Present

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    A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery ... Read more

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