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Stories and Lines
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DARLINGTON's FALL, BY BRAD LEITHAUSER, is one of the best novels I have read in years-rich in characterization, compelling in the shape and drive of its story, intellectually and verbally diverse.1 Part of its daring is that it relates the mostly sedentary life of a lepidopterist, risking comparison to Nabokov as well as the alienation of readers who seek more fashionable fare. The other part of its daring is that it is written in rhymed verse.
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Getting serious.(Essays)(reviews of Out of This Place, Shadow of Heaven, Carver: A Life in Poems, Icon and Evidence)(Book Review)
The Southern Review
; THE FOUR COLLECTIONS CONSIDERED HERE have little in common. Varying widely in subject, tone, and style, they come together as examples of differing kinds of intensity and excellence. Ranging from biography to autobiography, from spiritual search to celebration and questioning of the body and its
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Poetry for grandson turns into book: Aberdonian signing poems Sunday at museum for kids, former kids.
American News (Aberdeen, SD)
; ... and donate all the proceeds to Hunter's Dream for a Cure. Copyright (c) 2006, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213 ...
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Patrice Vecchione Revenge and Forgiveness: an Anthology of Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Horn Book Magazine
; Patrice Vecchione Revenge and Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems 143 pp. Holt 4/04 ISBN 0-8050-7376-0 16.95 g (High School) Eschewing the more usual themes of love, death, and basketball, Vecchione here brings together for young adults close to sixty poems on a theme that offers more latitude than
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Book of poems in memory of chip pan fire victim
The Northern Echo
; A MOTHER who lost her son in a house fire has published a book of poetry in his memory. Lynn Ford, of Stockton, has published a book of poems about her son Andrew?s life. Poetry of Te ars celebrates his life and in the final poem she tells how a chip pan fire cost him his life in December 2005. The
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northSight.(second book of Lois Roma-Deeley's collection of poems )
Phi Kappa Phi Forum
; LOIS ROMA-DEELEY. northSight. Scottsdale, AZ: Singularity Press, 2006. $24.95. Arranged in four sections, northSight, Lois Roma-Deeley's second book of poems, presents a cast of characters worthy of Dante: dealers, bikers, prostitutes, rapists, and tattoo girls on the one hand, and war heroes,
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Maxine Kumin. Jack and Other New Poems.(Tess Gallagher. Dear Ghosts)(Book review)
Prairie Schooner
; Maxine Kumin. Jack and Other New Poems. Norton. Tess Gallagher. Dear Ghosts , Graywolf. The poems in Jack and Other New Poems , Maxine Kumin's fifteenth collection, possess the same kind of dignity as the book's namesake, a horse described as calm as a president's portrait. Throughout the volume,
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History shaping selves: four poets.(Hoops)(Native Guard)(Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005)(Sugartown)(Book review)
The Southern Review
; IN THE TITLE POEM of his late-in-life collection, History, Robert Lowell writes that History has to live with what was hereclutching and close to fumbling all we had. This famously visceral poet refuses to make history an abstraction; it is an august but gangling force, a kind of murky, debris- and
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The wound as memory of ineffable touch: four poets offer a way through.(Compass of Affection. Poems New and Selected)(Common Life)(Weeknights at the Cathedral)(Deaths and Transfigurations: Poems)(Book review)
Christianity and Literature
; Compass of Affection. Poems New and Selected. By Scott Cairns. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006. ISBN 1-55725-503-2. Pp. x + 172. $25.00. Common Life. By Robert Cording. Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2006. ISBN 0-9723045-7-6. Pp. xv + 111. $16.00. Weeknights at the Cathedral. By Marjorie
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Christopher Middleton. Of the Mortal Fire: Poems 1999-2002.(Book Review)
World Literature Today
; Christopher Middleton. Of the Mortal Fire: Poems 1999-2002. Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Sheep Meadow (University Press of New England, distr 2003. iv + 103 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-931357-13-7 Although Christopher Middleton, the eminent English poet, was born in Cornwall, he taught German and
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`Good Poems' selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor; `The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry,' edited by J.D. McClatchy; `Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered,' edited by Catherine Bowman.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Byline: Jim Higgins As Ecclesiastes might have put it, of the making of poetry anthologies there is no end. But the making of excellent poetry anthologies, ones that non-tenured working human beings will want to read more than once, mark up, give to friends and take to the beach or the mountains,
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