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Fallen from the Symboled World
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 99.99This volume contains a selection of the readings of contemporary American poets, using the phenomenological approaches of Heidegger and Husserl. more...
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 39.99This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. more...
The Better Angel
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 18.99This biography recounts Walt Whitman's experiences of the American Civil War. For nearly three years, the erstwhile poet immersed himself in the devastation of the war, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experience with immediacy and compassion. more...
The New Red Negro
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 109.99This text surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets, and organized ideology from "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. more...
Modern Poetry after Modernism
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 49.95Offering an account of 40 years of American poetry, the author argues that the work of Robert Lowell and those who followed his reflective style should not now be viewed as a "breakthrough" narrative, due to changing concepts of what constitutes modernism and the over-use of the term "post-modern". more...
The Wicked Sisters
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 35.00This examination of the lives and poetic works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles between women writers and feminists. It traces the conflict that has taken place through the generations. more...
How Poets See the World
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 37.99How do poets see the world? What are they looking for? How do they transcribe their vision and make poems out of their observations? This work looks at poets (John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson, and Charles Wright), with an eye to explain the art of description in poetry. more...
When Angels Speak of Love
Atria Books 2007; US$ 9.99From writer, critic, and popular cultural icon bell hooks comes a seductive portrait of passion in fifty soul-stirring poems. When Angels Speak of Love heralds the debut of a major new poet: bell hooks. World renowned for her courageous, provocative intellectual writing and her alluring charisma, hooks poetically engages the erotic imagination... more...
Recent American Poetry
University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 36.00Recent American Poetry - American Writers 16 was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Walt Whitman
University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 36.00Walt Whitman - American Writers 9 was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...









