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  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a narrative poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was first published in 1798 as part of Coleridge's collection of poems titled "Lyrical Ballads," which he co-authored with William Wordsworth. The poem is one of the most famous works in English literature and is known for its vivid imagery, supernatural elements, and exploration of themes such as guilt, redemption, and the natural world.

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  Wing Over Wing

  Julie Cadwallader Staub

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  Wing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holy— whether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experiencing the death of a loved one. This collection of beautiful poems lives at the intersection of the sacred and the ordinary, from the swirling flight of birds to conversations with the homeless. Wing Over Wing brims with compassion. The reader will find comfort and sustenance, as well as surprise and laughter, in these pages.

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  From From - Poems

  Monica Youn

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY 
   
   
   
  "Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. 
   
   
   
  Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of "authenticity," no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word "deracinations" to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt. A kaleidoscopic personal essay explores the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the epidemic of anti-Asian hate. Several poems titled "Study of Two Figures" anatomize and dissect the Asian other: Midas the striving, nouveau-riche father; Dr. Seuss and the imaginary daughter Chrysanthemum-Pearl he invented while authoring his anti-Japanese propaganda campaign; Pasiphaë, mother of the minotaur, and Sado, the eighteenth-century Korean prince, both condemned to containers allegorical and actual.

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  A Rare Recording of EE Cummings...

  EE Cummings

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  Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his 1922 novel The Enormous Room. The following year he published his first collection of poetry. Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems and is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. He is associated with modernist free-form poetry, and much of his work uses idiosyncratic syntax and lower-case spellings for poetic expression. In the following recordings, Cummings reads his poems "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" (1931), "next to of course god america i" (1926), "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (1940), "Buffalo Bill's (1920), "in Just–" (1920), i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)" (1952). The final audio clip is from a 1955 Cummings speech, "A Poet's Advice to Students."

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  James Dickey - The Selected Poems

  James Dickey

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  James Dickey: The Selected Poems is the first book to collect James Dickey's very best poems. Like many visionary poets of the ecstatic imagination, Dickey experimented in a wide variety of literary styles. This volume brings together the finest work from each of the periods in Dickey's extremely controversial career. For over three decades, until his death in 1997, Dickey was one of the nation's most important poets; these are the poems that brought him a popular readership and critical acclaim.

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  African American Women Poets...

  Phyllis Wheatley

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  Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in the canon of humanity’s arts. 
   
  In today’s world, in the blink of an electronic pulse, words can be transported across continents and peoples and all too easily lost in the ever-growing mass of disposable culture of ‘me-me-me’ and ‘more- more-more’.  We can all be ‘woke’ be ‘politically correct’ be outraged at a transgression or even a slight.  Everything means something to someone.  
   
  But, once again, more modern times miss the reality of what others in previous generations suffered in the battle for equality and recognition.  In America, to be black and a woman over the years this volume covers, was to be chattel, to be bartered, sold, trafficked and used for no more than the whims of others. 
   
  It was a harsh reality, and yet…., and yet, these women produced verse that sears our souls with the ambition to tell others, to share with us all, what life was like, what was endured and the heartbreak of what their reality was.  They could not be overcome; their voice sought to endure and not be smothered.   
   
  Words are powerful weapons, they form ideas, they create movements and manifestos that can change the world.  Many of the women in this volume added to those words, to that desire that the words of their Constitution would someday include themselves.   The fight is not yet wholly won, prejudice and inequality still single them out but the flame of hope, of destiny continues to burn fiercely with their names.   
   
  Their poetry is not solely of protest but rich in a range of subjects embracing tenderness, love, family and includes works by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances W Harper, Phyllis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Esther Popel, Clarissa Scott Delany and many others whose voice voices call to us through the years. 
   
  01 - African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance - An Introduction 
  02 - Bars Fight by Lucy Terry 
  03 - On Virtue by Phyllis Wheatley 
  04 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley 
  05 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  06 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley 
  07 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper 
  08 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
  09 - The Slave Trade Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 
  10 - Burial of Sarah by Frances E W Harper 
  11 - Reflections, Written On Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato 
  12 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  13 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke 
  14 - Disappointment by May E Tucker 
  15 - Light In Darkness by Mary E Tucker 
  16 - Hope by Mary E Tucker 
  17 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken 
  18 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken 
  19 - Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken 
  20 - The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham 
  21 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham 
  22 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  23 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  24 - Scraps of Time by Charlotte E Linden 
  25 - Brave Man and Brave Woman by Charlotte E Linden 
  26 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner 
  27 - Thine Own by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 
  28 - The Black Sampson by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 
  29 - The Singer and the Song (To Paul Laurence Dunbar) by Carrie Williams Clifford 
  30 - The Widening Light by Carrie Williams Clifford 
  31 - The Door of Hope by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer 
  32 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer 
  33 - The Voice of the Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer 
  34 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson 
  35 - Not Dead, But Sleeping by Clara Ann Thompson<p

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