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Anna Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Beat Poets by Ciuraru Carmela
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a li ...Show more
Buzz Words - Poems about Insects by Howard Schechter (Editor); Kimiko Hahn (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. I ...Show more
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled sampling of them. Included here are selections from the early Greek poets - from Hesiod, Pindar and Bacchylides ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
The Great Cat by Fragos, Emily
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do ...Show more
Villanelles by EVERYMAN
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. Many well-known names in the past have tried their hand at it, and the villanelle is enjoying a re ...Show more
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