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  • The Muse Sings

    by Dennis Cooley ...
    The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation…The poems speak for themselves and sometimes “they talk all at once.” In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gibbous Moon

    by Dennis Cooley ...
    A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full. Poet Dennis Cooley's eloquent words merge with photographer/composer Michael Matthews' decadent abstract photographs. These two celebrated artists draw connections and parallels to each other's masterful art forms, tying the two together seamlessly. The antecedent and subsequent ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • body works

    by dennis cooley ...
    Series series Brave & Brilliant
    The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is supposed in an abstracted world of pure intellect. The body may be an obsession, a material concern taken up to the detriment of all else. The body may be a challenge to overcome, an enemy to silence.In this book, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Gibbous Moon

    by Dennis Cooley, Michael Matthews ...
    A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full. Poet Dennis Cooleys eloquent words merge with photographer/composer Michael Matthews decadent abstract photographs. These two celebrated artists draw connections and parallels to each others masterful art forms, tying the two together seamlessly. The antecedent and subsequent ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Re-imagining Policing in Canada

    Edited by Dennis Cooley ...
    Series series Heritage
    Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.Complex networks of policing that reflect a mix of public and private security providers are emerging, and this transformation has serious implications for how ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • The Muse Sings

    by Dennis Cooley ...
    The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation…The poems speak for themselves and sometimes “they talk all at once.” In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • By Word of Mouth

    The Poetry of Dennis Cooley

    by Dennis Cooley ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    by Richard Wilbur ...
    Illustrated by Richard Wilbur ...
    This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books ... Read more

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  • I Praise My Destroyer

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    by Diane Ackerman ...
    Diane Ackerman's poems reveal her intense response to the several worlds of nature, science, and society. Her lyricism fuses wit and sobriety, meditation and activism, and she confronts us with figures both real and fantastic.As always, her strong connection with the natural world, the realms of language and literature, myth and imagination, combines with her deep understanding of the sciences to ... Read more

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  • Imperfect Thirst

    by Galway Kinnell ...
    Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature. This energetic collection will prove once again why Galway Kinnell was one of America's masters of the ... Read more

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  • The Pangs of Sunday

    by Sharon Thesen ...
    A line in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey inspired the collection of selected and new poems within the pages of The Pangs of Sunday by Sharon Thesen. These poems artfully showcase Thesen’s great skill as a poet in balancing narrative with lyric, and demonstrates her grasp of the rhythm of language that is distinctly her own. ... Read more

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  • And the Stars Were Shining

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    by John Ashbery ...
    Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashbery's sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his ownAnd the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashbery's long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than ... Read more

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