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A Convergence of Birds by Foer, Jonathan
Safran . This book is the result of a magical convergence, which
began with the passion of a young writer, Jonathan Safran Foer, for
the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph
Cornell. |
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Art of Reading Poetry by Bloom, Harold .
A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best
Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry--a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes "the work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." This essay is an invaluable guide to poetry. |
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Australian Bush Poems by . All the old favourites and a few more besides, from the likes of Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Mary Hannay Foott, Banjo Paterson and others. A useful reference text when you simply want to refresh your memory of the old ballads, or if you are searching for that something special with which to acknowledge another Australian character |
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Banjo Paterson Collected Verse by Paterson Banjo . The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. |
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Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush by Paterson, Banjo . The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as "On Kiley's Run" and "Clancy of the Overflow", but also lesser known poems such as "The Uplift" and "The Wind's Message". The colour plates of works by Australian artists subtly illustrate the images evoked by the poems. |
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Bird by Hawthorne, Susan . From societal limitations to the inner experience of seizures, Susan Hawthorne's poetry takes the reader on a journey experience rarely recorded. Physical injury, memory loss, explorations of consciousness and language are the concerns of the poet. |
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BOOK OF MY ENEMY by JAMES CLIVE . Verse with all the vivid invention of Clive James' unique prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own . . . |
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Break, Blow, Burn by Paglia, Camille .
"This book is the latest shot in [Paglia's] campaign to save culture from theory. It thus squares well with another of her aims, to rescue feminism from its unwise ideological allegiances. So in the first instance BREAK, BLOW, BURN is about poetry, and in the second it is about Camille Paglia....From this book you could doubt several aspects of her taste in poetry. But you couldn't doubt her love of it. She is humble enough to be enthralled by it; enthralled enough to be inspired; and inspired enough to write the sinuous and finely shaded prose that proves how a single poem can get the whole of her attention....I she doesn't make a poem sound like something dangerous, at least she makes it sound like something complicated. Students grown wary of pabulum might relish the nitty-gritty." -- Clive James |
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Collected Poems by Murray, Les . Les Murray’s Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from his verse-novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book the Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems the Size of Photographs (2002). In tracing Murray’s artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery |
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Collected Poems by Wright, Judith . This definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia's most highly respected and valued poets. Judith Wright's Collected Poems is comprised of her work from 1942 to 1985, and includes her latest three books of poetry, Alive, Fourth Quarter and Phantom Dwelling. It is a fitting tribute to an outstanding poet. |
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Forbidden Rumi by ERGIN NEVIT & JOHNSON WILL. After his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks. |
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Landscape with Rowers by Coetzee, J.M. . Featuring English translations side-by-side with the originals, this volume contains the work of six of the most important modern and contemporary Dutch poets. Ranging in style from the rhetorical to the intensely lyrical, the work here includes examples of myth-influenced modernist verse, nature poetry, experimental poetry, and more. |
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| PURELY PERFORMANCE POETRY by WESTON SCHEUBER KYLIE MAREE . The author Specialising in writing and performing humorous verse. This anthology entitled is suitable as a resource for schools and speech and drama students/teachers. |
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Selected Poems by Dryden, John . Dryden was a literary celebrity for more than thirty years, gaining fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favour with the crown and repeatedly savaging its enemies. |
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Slouching Toward Nirvana by Bukowski, Charles, Martin, John . A third of five previously unpublished collections by the late author of The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain and Sifting through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way features his observations about the journey of life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. |
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Suburban Anatomy by Layland, Penelope .
Canberra poet Penelope Layland's 2005 collection Suburban Anatomy
was Shortlisted for the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Literary
Awards' Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. The cover blurb states,
'This is her first collection of poetry.' However, in 1998 Molonglo
Press actually published Layland's first collection, The Unlikely
Orchard, which was commended by the judges of the Association for
the Study of Australian Literature's Mary Gilmore Award for a First
Book of Poetry. Layland is well-known in Canberra as a journalist
and public servant, having been an Associate Editor at The Canberra
Times, in which she has published over a hundred articles, and
through her work as a speechwriter for the Minister for Arts and
Communications. As a poet, Layland favours concise free verse lyrics focusing closely on domestic life. The fifty pages of the collection contain forty-five poems, only four of which are longer than twenty-five lines. EXTRACT OF REVIEW FROM Nathanael O'Reilly, Western Michigan University |
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Tales from Rumi by . Part of a series of sacred texts selected from the major writings of the world's spiritual traditions. |
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The Biplane Houses by Murray, Les . In his first new volume of poems since "Poems the Size of Photographs" (2002), Les Murray celebrates the grace and variousness of the world with an unfailing abundance of imagination and linguistic energy. Here is a poet writing at the height of his powers, capturing the richness of life in story-poems, word-plays, history- and myth-makings, aphoristic fragments and domestic portraits, recollections of rural Australia and moments of urban experience. Houses - as home, landscape and metaphor - form a many-sided theme of the book, and as ever Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness. |
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The Butterfly Effect by Hawthorne, Susan . This is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. This work includes poems on a range of subjects, including death, history, culture physics, and more. |
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The Essential Rumi by Rumi, Jelaluddin . Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery from horses to fishes, flowers to birds and rivers to stars, the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries. |
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The Love Poems of Rumi by Rumi, Jalal al-Din . Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia in the 13th century, the poet known as Rumi expressed deep feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the mood and music of Rumi's love poems. |
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The Selected Poetry by Amichai, Yehuda . This is a collection of poems by the Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai. It is a revised edition, which contains forty new works. |
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Twenty Poems from John Keats . The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the greatest works of poetry available in convenient, affordable volumes. Shillings are ideal for people with busy lifestyles who enjoy poetry. |
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Twenty Poems from Thomas Hardy .
Part of the Methuen Shilling series.
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Twenty Poems from William Wordsworth Part of the Methuen Shilling series. |
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Various Voices by Pinter, Harold . Harold Pinter's plays are lauded the world over but, until now, little has been gathered together of his other writings. Various Voices presents a wealth of material and a multiplicity of form in which to enjoy the crystal clarity of language and style which marks out Pinter as a true original. Paperback , 198 x 129mm. |
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