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  • Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet
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    Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet

    Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As...
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  • Walt Whitman Speaks
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    Walt Whitman Speaks

    To mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, Carcanet publishes a distillation from Horace Traubel's conversations with the great American poet. Whitman speaks from the heart, an old man who...
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  • The Law of the Heart The Law of the Heart
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    The Law of the Heart

    The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the "antidemocratic" image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this...
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  • Chambers of the Heart Chambers of the Heart
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    Chambers of the Heart

    Recommended by Kirkus, BookLife, and others and labeled a 'must-read story collection', reviewers have called Allen's writing 'beautifully crafted', 'gorgeous', 'memorable', 'thoughtful' and...
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  • Walk Away Silver Heart Walk Away Silver Heart
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    Walk Away Silver Heart

    Drawing on the phrasing of the early 20th Century Amy Lowell poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of personal and interpersonal love poems written, as...
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  • Sing With the Heart of a Bear
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    Sing With the Heart of a Bear

    Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first...
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  • Two Tattered Hearts Two Tattered Hearts
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    Two Tattered Hearts

    Two Tattered Hearts is a novel about a young mother, Anna Rodgers, who fears for her life as well as that of her infant son. Her husband turned their home into a man-made hell of physical, sexual,...
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  • Law of the Heart Law of the Heart
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    Law of the Heart

    After receiving an urgent wire, U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Whitman unexpectedly finds himself on his way back to Van Buren, Arkansas. With Sheriff Wes Tally out of commission for an unknown length of...
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  • Reconstituting the American Renaissance Reconstituting the American Renaissance
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    Reconstituting the American Renaissance

    Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of...
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  • Crystal Blue Murder Crystal Blue Murder
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    Crystal Blue Murder

    METH, MURDER, AND EXPLOSIONS OF THE HEARTIn the heart of tranquil Brandywine Valley, Detective Parrott confronts a meth lab explosion, a dismembered corpse, and an intricate trail of secrets that...
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  • Not a Man, and Yet a Man
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    Not a Man, and Yet a Man

    Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877) is a collection of poems by A.A. Whitman. A former slave, Whitman worked as a laborer before finding employment as a financial agent and fundraiser for Wilberforce...
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  • Words From the East Words From the East
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    Words From the East

    Words from the East, this first in the series of "Songs of the Soul," poetic reflections from the pen of Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski, brings us into intimate contact with nature and the Source...
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  • How to Measure the Distance of Things How to Measure the Distance of Things
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    How to Measure the Distance of Things

    Funny and heartbreaking, Australian Paul Whitby's poetry book How to Measure the Distance of Things resides somewhere between the head and the heart. Follow the narrator as he drifts through rural...
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  • Going Wild Going Wild
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    Going Wild

    When accountant Jane finds herself attracted to handsome, free-spirited Grant, will she pursue her long-term goals... or her heart?All work and no play...Jane Garcia's life is going according to...
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  • THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH
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    THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH

    THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH - explores the liminal space between poetry and meditation. Many of the poems are prompts for contemplative practice, either by individuals or groups. They unite the...
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    Cherished Mercy
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    Cherished Mercy

    The Inspiring Conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Heart of the Frontier Series Mercy Flanagan survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, and now her heart's cry is for peace between the native peoples and...
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  • New Addresses
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    New Addresses

    Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His...
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  • Wheeling Motel
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    Wheeling Motel

    Now in paperback, a haunting work of reconciliation with the demons of the past and a frank eye on the present by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright...
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  • Sadakichi Hartmann
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    Sadakichi Hartmann

    Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910. Jane Weaver has...
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    Beloved Hope
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    Beloved Hope

    A Compelling Novel of Forgiveness and Hope from Leading Author Tracie Peterson Hope Flanagan survived the massacre at the Whitman Mission, but at terrible personal cost. Safe now in Oregon City, she...
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  • Shekinah Unveiled Shekinah Unveiled
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    Shekinah Unveiled

    Many Christians believe and have been taught that the bride of Christ is the church, and this presupposition is widely held by scholars, ministers, and laity alike as though it were a biblical...
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  • Gemini World Gemini World
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    Gemini World

    Paths and symbols, mazes and riddles bring you to a bridge at the center, reconciling the heavens and the earth, the spirit and the elements.Gemini World is a contemplative collection of poetry and a...
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  • little bit die little bit die
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    little bit die

    Jason Emde's poems in little bit die are intimate and haunted recollections of travel and freedom, of friendship and loss, of leaving and getting home. Careening from small-town Canada to Zimbabwe to...
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  • The Girlfriend Mom The Girlfriend Mom
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    The Girlfriend Mom

    Just when you thought the definitions of the American family had become as broad and diverse as they could be, here comes Dani's hilarious look at her own."-Dan Bucatinsky, Emmy Winning...
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    Time And Materials

    The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American...
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  • The Soap Game The Soap Game
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    The Soap Game

    PRAISE FOR THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF THE HANDICAPPED:'.irreverent.vibrant.sensitive without ever approaching sanctimony."-Publisher's Weekly, starred review'It's a wonderful book!"-Bill Holm, Minnesota...
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  • The Kid Who Killed Cole Hardt The Kid Who Killed Cole Hardt
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    The Kid Who Killed Cole Hardt

    Ryan Turane, 17 years old, wants to be somebody, wants to make his mark on the world. When he gets the chance to chauffeur his idol, the famous writer Cole Hardt, he can't believe his good luck...
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  • Walking the Tightrope of Reason
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    Walking the Tightrope of Reason

    Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know...
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  • Winning the Mountain Man's Love Winning the Mountain Man's Love
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    Winning the Mountain Man's Love

    In the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances...and a hidden fortune.Jonah Coulter can't stand to watch his former fiancée build a life with...
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  • Plum TVTI
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    Plum TVTI

    Now a major ABC TV series, starring Brendan Cowell, Asher Keddie and Jemaine Clement, Plum is the roaring, raucous, funny and deeply moving story of a deeply inarticulate man who has to find his own...
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  • A Loose Rendering A Loose Rendering
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    A Loose Rendering

    What does it mean to think of time and memory loosely? T.P. Bird's work helps us answer that question. He divides his fifty "renderings" into three sections-"Time & Memory"; "Poets, Presidents...
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  • Whispers of the Past The Secrets Unveiled Whispers of the Past The Secrets Unveiled
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    Whispers of the Past The Secrets Unveiled

    Whispers of the Past: The Secrets UnveiledIn "Whispers of the Past: The Secrets Unveiled," journey back to the late 19th century and discover the origins of a haunting love story that transcends time...
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    Kaleidophonic Modernity
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    Kaleidophonic Modernity

    What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by...
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  • Boyfriend Perspective Boyfriend Perspective
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    Boyfriend Perspective

    Thankful for this book, and Michael Chang's ability to weave seamlessly in between scenes, to honor the full ecosystem of a narrative-people, places, images, metaphor. This is a rich book, it felt...
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  • The Book of Night & Waking The Book of Night & Waking
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    The Book of Night & Waking

    This book-length poem is a magical realist journey, catalyzed by war and grief. The speaker walks, impelled toward the restorative idea of the stark earthly beauty and purity represented by...
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  • sky bright psalms sky bright psalms
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    sky bright psalms

    Poetry Collection by Temple Cone: Temple Cone is Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy and the former Poet Laureate for the City of Annapolis. He is the author of four books of...
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  • Courage in Blue and Gray Courage in Blue and Gray
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    Courage in Blue and Gray

    The Civil War is the defining moment in our history. More than 620,000 Americans died in that conflict, a figure that far exceeds the number of dead in any other American war. Although military...
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  • Andrezj of Hollywood Andrezj of Hollywood
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    Andrezj of Hollywood

    *2024 IPPY Bronze Medalist - West Pacific Fiction*Hollywood, the American film industry, is one of the most lucrative and competitive businesses in the world. It's where dreams become real, men act...
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  • Thomas Murphy Thomas Murphy
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    Thomas Murphy

    The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy--a paean to the mystery,...
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  • Stand in Old Light Stand in Old Light
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    Stand in Old Light

    "Matthew Porubsky's Stand in Old Light will "hover / heart-like" with me for a long time. My immediate reverence for these poems almost startled me, as the experience of reading them reminded me of...
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  • Dreams and Dreamers Dreams and Dreamers
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    Dreams and Dreamers

    There are sensibilities time cannot dull or the imperfections of memory degrade. In Dreams and Dreamers, Lynn Carroll Cohen offers her readers these. In her finest poems, she displays a rare...
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  • Railman's Son Railman's Son
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    Railman's Son

    Narrative poems about working class life in a small prairie town. A protest book about the damages and sorrow poverty causes on humans interweaved with tragedy and personal loss...
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  • Alabanza
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    Alabanza

    Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Mart?n Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the...
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  • The Vulture Investors
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    The Vulture Investors

    "What kinds of investors actually choose to make their living by seeking out troubled companies and becoming mired in the complexities and contentiousness of a bankruptcy or out-of-court workout?" -...
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  • Imperative to Spare Imperative to Spare
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    Imperative to Spare

    Imperative to Spare is the first installment of a trilogy in which Hightower seeks to explore diplomacies of the heart. He puts an altruistic human face on suffering and awe. The poetic voice is that...
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