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Description: "This set of splendidly rich poems records the minutiae of the moment, moving from micro to macro throughout. The poems are both the residue of privacy and an accounting of terrain, the poet's territory; a collision of megalopolis, mountain, and desert meeting in fire ... Twenty-three photographs taken by Carolee Campbell inhabit the book. They do not illustrate as much as act as an ambient penumbra. The images were found in the glancing light shining off the edge of the poetry"--Publisher's website.
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Publication date: 2015.
Call number: 647489
Creator: Phillips, Dennis(Opens in new tab)
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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most creative and influential writers of the nineteenth century. This important new edition contains all of his poetry--including such celebrated works as "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "The Windhover", and "Felix Randall"--arranged for the first time in chronological order showing the range of his poetic interests and talents at each stage of his tragically short life. Catherine Phillips has consulted the original manuscripts in order to present accurate versions of the poems and to reveal the poet's own taste more clearly than in previous editions. She has also selected passages which elucidate the poetry from Hopkins's journals, sermons, and letters. From these the reader gains a strong sense of the poet's personality and the breadth of his intellectual pursuits."--Back cover.

660844

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Sacramental acts : the love poems of Kenneth Rexroth

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The love poems of a late California poet. In Open the Blind, he wrote, "The endless sky, the small earth / The shadow cone / Your shining / Lips and eyes / Your thighs drenched with the sea / A telescope full of fireflies / Innumerable nebulae all departing / Ten billion years before we ever / met."

660957

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Two Charlies no. 3

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Publisher: Two Charlies Publishing Empire (Scappoose, Or.) Related Content: "nerves" ; "the nude dancer" ; "in bed until noon with the poets" ; "some people never go crazy" ; "smiling, shining, singing" (p. 33, poems) Note: Cover title reads "The human struggle ; food, shelter, sex, and snoring". "Title: 'Two Charlies #3' ; (1973) ; NIF" written in ms. in upper right corner of cover p. [1]. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski

602815

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Tom Tit Tot

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"The most recent in a series of artist's books issued by the Library Council, Tom Tit Tot brings together sixty-seven poems by Susan Howe with design and artwork by R.H. Quaytman, the poet's daughter. The text is hand-printed at the Grenfell Press in New York by Brad Ewing and Leslie Miller, who designed the volume with the poet and the artist. Brett Groves, Quaytman's longtime printmaker and collaborator, worked closely with the artist to produce all of the images ... May Castleberry ... produced the book for the Museum of Modern Art"--Colophon.

647549

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Rooke-Ley, Peter, Interior Designer

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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.

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The world below the window : poems, 1937-1997

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"Smith melds an array of influences - from the French Symbolists to W. H. Auden and Wallace Stevens - into his own unmistakable voice, moving powerfully from the compressed, dark lyrics of his pre-World War II poetry ("Quail in Antumn") to experiments with a long, free-verse line in the 1960's ("The Tin Can"). Here are memorable lyrics that capture the horror of World War II ("Dark Valentine: War Poems") and hilarious light verse ("The Tall Poets") that exhibits the wit that has enlivened even Smith's darkest works. Previously uncollected recent poems reveal the poet's tremendous range, as he moves from discussing the ironies of age in "The Shipwreck" to forging the dramatic and moving intensity of "The Cherokee Lottery," which deals with the forced removal of American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi."--Book jacket.

619593

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