Author: Dexter Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Dexter Smith's Poems
Author: Dexter Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Scratching the Ghost
Author: Dexter L. Booth
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976606
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. —from "Scratching the Ghost" Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history. "In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey." —Major Jackson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976606
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. —from "Scratching the Ghost" Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history. "In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey." —Major Jackson
The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Song Messenger of the North-West
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The American Flag in Prose, Poetry and Song
Author: Michigan State Library
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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ECHOES OF LIFE OR BEAUTIFUL GEMS OF POETRY AND PROSE
Author: GRACE TOWNSEND
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Echoes of Life Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry and Song
Author: Grace Townsend
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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American Poetry, 1609-1870
Author: Research Publications, inc
Publisher: Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher: Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Poetry of the American Civil War
Author: Lee Steinmetz
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Deeply affecting and diverse in perspective, The Poetry of the American Civil War is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on poetry written and published during the Civil War. Of the nearly one thousand books of poetry published in the 1860s, some two hundred addressed the war in some way, and these collectively present a textured portrait of life during the conflict. The poets represented here hail from the North and the South, and at times mirror each other uncannily. Among them are housewives, doctors, preachers, bankers, journalists, and teachers. Their verse reflects the day-to-day reality of war, death, and destruction, and it contemplates questions of faith, slavery, society, patriotism, and politics. This is an essential volume for poetry lovers, historians, and Civil War enthusiasts alike.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Deeply affecting and diverse in perspective, The Poetry of the American Civil War is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on poetry written and published during the Civil War. Of the nearly one thousand books of poetry published in the 1860s, some two hundred addressed the war in some way, and these collectively present a textured portrait of life during the conflict. The poets represented here hail from the North and the South, and at times mirror each other uncannily. Among them are housewives, doctors, preachers, bankers, journalists, and teachers. Their verse reflects the day-to-day reality of war, death, and destruction, and it contemplates questions of faith, slavery, society, patriotism, and politics. This is an essential volume for poetry lovers, historians, and Civil War enthusiasts alike.
The Message of the Flowers [poems]
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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