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Selected Poems
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Selected Poems, by Eugenio Montale, translated by Jonathan Calassi, Charles Wright, and David Young, with introduction by David Young. Oberlin, December 2004. $19.95
Enormous pleasure can be taken from Montale's gorgeously apt linked images and the prismatic visions they create. In "The Storm" (CW), refracted light effects-shaking crystal, gold "snuffed" on furniture and books, a grain of sugar in the eyelid, trees and walls "blanched" by lightning-express dichotomies of light and dark...
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New and Selected Poems
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; New and Selected Poems, by Michael Ryan. Houghton Mifflin, April 2004. $22 The new poems here are vibrant and ferocious-and the old poems still shock and delight.
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Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
The Village Voice
; Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 By Alice Notley Wesleyan, 384 pp., $29.95 Home Truths A new collection treads Alice Notley's turf Alice Notley is a rare example of a major contemporary poet whose writing life has flourished outside of academia. She is a crucial member of the
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Selected Poems of August Strindberg
Scandinavian Review
; Selected Poems of August Strindberg Edited and translated by Lotta M. Lofgren Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill., 2002 167 pages, hardcover In addition to being one of the great innovators of modern drama, August Strindberg was a novelist and poet. In this volume,
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A new Selected Poems from a l ...
The Washington Post
; A new Selected Poems from a long-established, much-honored poet provides a new generation of readers with the opportunity to scan a career. A selection also encourages experienced readers to recall earlier parts of the career, to rediscover poems. From the recent Selected Poems of Derek Walcott,
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Traveling in the family: selected poems.
The Nation
; All of Us Here Traveling in the Family: Selected Poems The thirty-eight-page title poem of Irving Feldman's All of Us Here (Elisabeth Sifton/Viking, $17.95; Penguin, $8.95) is a dazzling set of variations on George Segal's life-size plaster sculptures. Out of the juxtaposition of fashionable
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In the Dark before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton.(Book Review)
Christianity and Literature
; In the Dark before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. Edited by Lynn R. Szabo. Preface by Kathleen Norris. New York: New Directions Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-8112-1613-6. Pp. xxxiv + 253. $16.95 [paper]. In comparison with the attention given to his essays, journals, and other prose
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Selected Poems: 1960-1990 / Connecting the Dots
Poetry
; Selected Poems: 196o-199o, by Maxine Kumin. W.W. Norton. $27.50. Connecting the Dots, by Maxine Kumin. W.W. Norton. $18.95. "Poetry is like farming," writes Maxine Kumin. "It's / a calling, it needs constancy, / the deep woods drumming of the grouse, / and long life Kumin's analogy will not suit
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Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems.(Book Review)
World Literature Today
; Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems. David R. Slavitt, tr. Horacio Costa, intro. Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Sheep Meadow Press (University Press of New England, distr 2002. xviii + 153 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-931357-01-3 ACCORDING TO Mario de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira was the John the Baptist of
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Still Swingin: New and Selected Poems From These Hips
Black Issues Book Review
; Still Swingin: New and Selected Poems From These Hips Tonya Matthews is indeed Still Swinging, as her title suggests in this collection of new and selected poems. A continuation of her 1999 collection, These Hips and Other Songs to Minista to a People'Soul, this 21-poem collection is arranged in
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Kwame Dawes. New and Selected Poems, 1994-2002.(Book Review)
World Literature Today
; Kwame Dawes. New and Selected Poems, 1994-2002. Leeds, England. Peepal Tree. 2002. 276 pages. 9.99 [pounds sterling14.95. ISBN 1-900715-70-8 DIVIDED INTO EIGHT SECTIONS, Kwame Dawes's New and Selected Poems is an amazingly rich collection. It contains a sampling of verse from 1994 to the present,
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