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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays showcases the diversity of the American sonnet. 800 years after the sonnet's invention, this volume celebrates the extraordinary development of the sonnet in the hands of American poets-and those living under US empire-from traditional to experimental, political and personal. Edited by poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, this anthology collects and foregrounds an impressive range...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams: "There is a Mr. Vanderkemp, of New York, a correspondent, I believe, of yours, with whom I have exchanged some letters, without knowing who he is. Will you tell me?" Adams replied: "The biography of Mr. Vanderkemp would require a volume. ... My acquaintance wit hhim began at Leyden, in 1780. He was the minister of the Mennonite congregation, the richest in Europe, in that city, where he was celebrated as...
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids to master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: - Asks questions to confirm understanding - Knows letter sounds - Recognizes basic sight words - Identifies...
266) Collected poems
Author
Series
American poets project volume 32
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-- "Heritage," "Yet Do I Marvel"--Are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity...
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Language
English
Description
"The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this...
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