The Hatred of Poetry
The Hatred of Poetry

Author: Ben Lerner

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0865478201

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"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

The Resurrectionists
The Resurrectionists

Author: John Challis

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781780375519

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The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain. Amidst the political disquiet rising from the groundwater, or the unearthing of the class divide at the gravesides of plague victims, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest when a child is born, and something close to hope for the future is resurrected.

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Author: Terrance Hayes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0525504966

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Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.

Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879
Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879

Author: Catherine Reilly

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0720123186

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These two volumes list late-and mid-Victorian poets, with brief biographical information and bibliographical details of published works. The major strength of the works is the 'discovery' of very many minor poets and their work, unrecorded elsewhere.