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Library of America
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[2005]
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English
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Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—now in one collectible volume
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing.” From the life of Chicago’s South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics...
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing.” From the life of Chicago’s South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics...
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In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous...
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American poets project volume 15
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
11) Collected poems
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American poets project volume 32
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-- "Heritage," "Yet Do I Marvel"--Are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity...
13) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 24
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
14) Selected lyrics
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American poets project volume 21
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
15) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 18
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
16) Selected poems
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) published her first book--the powerfully experimental Theory of flight--at age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and political activist. Her expansive energies sought a poetry in which politics, geography, sexuality, mythology, and autobiography could find fused and fluid expression. From her early, cinematic "Poem out of childhood" through excerpts from her long wartime "Letter...
17) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 11
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
18) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 12
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
19) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 22
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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