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American poetry 20th century English poetry 20th century English poetry 20th century History and criticism English poetry Irish authors 20th century German poetry 20th century Translations into English Italian poetry Montale, Eugenio 1896-1981 Spanish language materials Bilingual Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Translations into EnglishFilter By Subjects
American poetry 20th century English poetry 20th century English poetry 20th century History and criticism English poetry Irish authors 20th century German poetry 20th century Translations into English Italian poetry Montale, Eugenio 1896-1981 Spanish language materials Bilingual Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Translations into EnglishSummary: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 OXFKorda, Michael
Summary: "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 KORHeaney, Seamus
Summary: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HEASummary: Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GOISummary: Collects one hundred poems from the past century that reflect modern culture, including works by William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.91 ONEJohnston, Dillon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 JOHKennelly, Brendan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 KENDouglas, Keith Castellain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 DOUHallett, Alyson Sarah
Summary: Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and trees and sky and stars and sea that we participate in and that participates in us. It reawakens a childlike curiosity in us, makes connections...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triarchy Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 HALWalcott, Derek.
Summary: In this work, the poet treats the characteristic subjects of his career, the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world, with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALTranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRARilke, Rainer Maria
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILTranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRAMontale, Eugenio
Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONNeruda, Pablo
Summary: This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERArendt, Hannah
Summary: The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is world-renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. Not many people know that she also wrote poems--yet the language of poetry, especially that of Goethe and Schiller, was a banister for Arendt's thinking throughout much of her adult life. Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
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Summary: ""The growth of the work of Octavio Paz," writes Muriel Rukeyser in her preface to this bilingual selection of the Mexican poet's Early Poems, "has made clear to an audience in many languages what was evident from the beginning ... he is a great poet, a world-poet whom we need. The poems here speak--as does all his work since--deeply, erotically, with grave and passionate involvement." In this,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PAZMuldoon, Paul
Summary: Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how "a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 MULMuldoon, Paul
Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection of poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021