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<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date Poems of Arab Andalusia Cola Franzen These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face."... Distance No Object Stories Gloria Frym Gloria Frym turns her ironic, passionate gaze to 1990s post-Vietnam Berkeley and San Francisco."Frym turns an unflinching eye on human interaction, capturing casual and intimate exchanges between strangers on trains, estranged husbands and wives, and... Ode to Walt Whitman Federico Garcia Lorca Collected here in one bilingual edition are new translations of four small books of poems that were published during Federico Garcia Lorca's lifetime and span his most creative years. First Songs, poems inspired by the Andalusian countryside are... Poem of the Deep Song Federico Garcia Lorca The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and... Blues and the Poetic Spirit Paul Garon Paul Garon knows the blues, from the music itself to the poetry and psychology that are the impetus of its creation. The author of biographies of such blues icons as Peetie Wheatstraw and Memphis Minnie, Garon focuses on the social and political... Mexico Unconquered Chronicles of Power and Revolt John Gibler A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them. To Die in Mexico Dispatches from Inside the Drug War John Gibler On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico's drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler. Longing Selected Poems Jaime Gil de Biedma The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war... The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 Pocket Poets Number 30 Allen Ginsberg National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during... Howl and Other Poems Pocket Poets Number 4 Allen Ginsberg The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social... Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 Pocket Poets Number 14, 50th Anniversary Edition Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works. This special fiftieth­-anniversary edition of Kaddish & Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by... Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977 Pocket Poets Number 35 Allen Ginsberg Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds... Planet News: 1961-1967 Pocket Poets Number 23 Allen Ginsberg Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till... Plutonian Ode:And Other Poems 1977-1980 Pocket Poets Number 40 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>