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Stephanie Burt
Esteemed scholar, poet, and critic Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse for and by queer Americans. Interpreted by Burt, the poems of Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James…
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The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again, Though it was all they had taught you.
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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre
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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. Critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, she…
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Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say (Boston Review)
Stephanie Burt’s poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing…
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An award-winning poet offers a "masterful" (Wally Lamb) introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre
Stephen Burt
Demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. This book recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began…
Stephanie Burt Williams
Bootleggers, swindlers, gold miners and serial killers–Charlotte has courted them all. The Queen City is renowned for its skyline, sports teams and dizzying growth, but just below its smooth, polished…
Bootleggers, swindlers, gold miners and serial killers Charlotte has courted them all. The Queen City is renowned for its skyline, sports teams and dizzying growth, but just below its smooth…
When the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper with o of lost loves, deals gone bad, and…
Margaret Ray
Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman’s body.
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Stephanie Burt,David Mikics
Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and…
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie Burt Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired…
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by…
Randall Jarrell
Offer readings of Auden’s works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden’s poetry. It considers…
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Unlike Whitman, Dickinson, or Wordsworth, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) never wanted to start a revolution in poetry. This edition of Tuckerman’s poetry includes several important poems omitted in The Complete…
Burt Kempner
Rosa Martinez is seriously ill. She has the loving support of her mother and grandfather and a doctor who takes good care of her. But she also has a secret…
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