Author: Paul RudnickPrice: $6.79Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:1998-01TPages:72Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0822205467ISBN:13:9780822205463Comedy. An actor preparing to play Hamlet is haunted by the ghost of John Barrymore. 2 acts, 3 scenes, 3 man, 3 women, 1 interior.
Author: Thomas NelsonPrice: NoneBuy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2019-10-01T00:00:01ZPages:2448Binding:Leather BoundISBN:10:0785225110ISBN:13:9780785225119Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don’t need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect with the ancient words and cultural contexts of the biblical writers. The NET offers a completely new solution:…
Author: Hong, Cathy ParkPrice: $14.65Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2008-11-17T00:00:01ZPages:128Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393333116ISBN:13:9780393333114Adrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong’s “audacious” (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize. Named one of the Los Angeles Times’s Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from…
Author: Rampersad, ArnoldPrice: $15.72Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1994-11-15T00:00:01ZPages:736Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0679426310ISBN:13:9780679426318Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes’s poetry – 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Author: Spicer, JackPrice: $22.50Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2010-08-15T00:00:01ZPages:508Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0819570907ISBN:13:9780819570901An essential collection of a highly original American poet Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers…
Author: Yin, John Jing-huaPrice: $41.09Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2006-05-20T00:00:01ZPages:401Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0300109458ISBN:13:9780300109450Fundamentals of Chinese Characters focuses on the connections between the shapes and meanings of basic Chinese characters, enabling students to learn to recognize and write Chinese characters before they learn to speak Chinese. Presenting fundamental knowledge of Chinese characters according to their intrinsic regularity rather…
Author: Kooser, TedPrice: $16.22Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2022-09-01T00:00:01ZPages:96Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1496231295ISBN:13:9781496231291“The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser’s daily routine of getting up long before dawn and writing down whatever drifts into his mind”–
Author: Feld, MarjoriePrice: $25.54Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2024-05-07T00:00:01ZPages:288Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1479829315ISBN:13:9781479829316Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to marginalize and label dissenters as…
Author: Hart CranePrice: $16.19Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2006-09-21T00:00:01ZPages:864Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1931082995ISBN:13:9781931082990Presents a collection of writings by the American poet, including his complete body of poetic and prose works as well as a selection of his letters, and offers insight into his relationships with family and contemporaries.
Author: Sin, R HPrice: $7.57Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2020-12-12T00:00:01ZPages:90Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0578820331ISBN:13:9780578820330This is my offering to the heart and soul of the reader: Some warmth for the winter wind, a light that can be held in the palm of your hands. Allow these words to once more; find you where you’ve been and take them wherever you…
Author: Loy, MinaPrice: $12.39Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1997-04-08T00:00:01ZPages:256Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0374525072ISBN:13:9780374525071Mina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included…
Author: Darwish, MahmoudPrice: $12.87Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2011-03-01T00:00:01ZPages:240Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0374532478ISBN:13:9780374532475Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language—lyrical and tender—helped to transform modern Arabic…
Author: Bök, ChristianPrice: $10.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2005-10-14T00:00:01ZPages:120Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1552452255ISBN:13:9781552452257In a five-chapter book of experimental verse, each chapter uses only one vowel, with the vowel taking on its own personality, in a volume that also includes other poems about vowels and language in general.
Author: Mentz, StevePrice: $14.18Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2024-04-02T00:00:01ZPages:144Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1531506321ISBN:13:9781531506322Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined. Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiarcourse. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course acrossthe curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are…
Author: Sturman, MariannePrice: $8.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:1965-11-12T00:00:01ZPages:82Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0822001837ISBN:13:9780822001836The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Anna Karenina delves into the complex web of relationships in Tolstoy’s epic novel. As the characters unfold, this novel draws you into the lives of Karenin,…
Author: Collins, BillyPrice: $23.22Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2001-09TPages:192Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0375503803ISBN:13:9780375503801This collection features clear, moving, and witty inventions by one of America’s most popular poets, Billy Collins, a Guggenheim fellow. NPR sponsorship.
Author: MilarepaPrice: NoneBuy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2003-05-02T00:00:01ZPages:128Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0486428141ISBN:13:9780486428147A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of contemplation and love, eventually reaching—according to his disciples—the ultimate state of enlightenment. His thousands of extemporaneously composed songs communicate complex ideas in…
Author: Davidman, JoyPrice: $18.70Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2015-05-06T00:00:01ZPages:336Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0802872883ISBN:13:9780802872883“The first comprehensive collection of Davidman’s poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery”–Publisher’s description.
Author: Jetnil-Kijiner, KathyPrice: $11.98Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2017-02-14T00:00:01ZPages:90Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0816534020ISBN:13:9780816534029“Iep jāltok is a collection of poetry by a young Marshallese woman highlighting the traumas of her people through colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of nuclear testing by America, and the impending threats of climate change”–Provided by publisher.
Author: Hirshfield, JanePrice: $15.17Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2017-02-21T00:00:01ZPages:128Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0345806859ISBN:13:9780345806857An incandescent collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices The Beauty opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems–“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”–in which Hirshfield uses materials both familiar and unexpected to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of…
Author: Collins, BillyPrice: $17.48Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1999-01-07T00:00:01ZPages:91Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0822956985ISBN:13:9780822956983To celebrate Billy Collins’s years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce this special hardcover edition of one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation in the 1990s.
Author: Watson, BurtonPrice: $28.00Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:1996-04-15T00:00:01ZPages:160Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0231105959ISBN:13:9780231105958Chuang Tzu (369?-286? BC) was a leading Taoist philosopher. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth in this book the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. This collection includes the seven “inner chapters,” three of the “outer chapters,” and…
Author: Dostoyevski, FiódorPrice: $6.24Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2016-07-09T00:00:01ZPages:52Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:153517739XISBN:13:Nétochka Nezvánova o Niétochka Nezvánova es una obra escrita por el escritor Fiódor Dostoyevski que se publicó en 1849. La novela está escrita en primera persona por su personaje principal, Niétochka Nezvánova. Esta obra fue fuertemente criticada en su época por el crítico literario Visarión Belinski,…
Author: Heaney, SeamusPrice: $15.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2014-11-18T00:00:01ZPages:240Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0374535612ISBN:13:9780374535612A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be “the greatest poet of our age” (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday…
Author: Glück, LouisePrice: $9.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2015-09-01T00:00:01ZPages:80Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0374535779ISBN:13:9780374535773WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the “fearless” (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was…
Author: Whitman, WaltPrice: $5.24Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2018-03-06T00:00:01ZPages:106Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1986235556ISBN:13:9781986235556This is a copy of the first self-published copy of Leaves of Grass, published on July 4, 1855 in Brooklyn, NY. 795 copies were printed, although only 200 copies were bound with the green cover. The author’s name did not appear on the cover, although it does…
Author: Angemeer, MichaelaPrice: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2022-07-18T00:00:01ZPages:227Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1775272745ISBN:13:9781775272748From the best-selling author of You’ll Come Back to Yourself, Poems for the Signs is a highly anticipated collection that explores the twelve astrological signs through poetry. Starting with Aries and ending with Pisces, it’s a collection about looking for love, self-reflection, depression, healing ancestral patterns, and…
Author: Keats, JohnPrice: $16.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1977-08-25T00:00:01ZPages:752Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0140422102ISBN:13:9780140422108The complete poems of an English master Keats’s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized…