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Henry Darger was an untrained artist and a social isolate. When he died in Chicago in 1973 at the age of 81, his work was completely unknown. Now his work is hung in major international art galleries and his innovative use of materials places him in the pop art milieu. The poems in this book tell the story of his life.

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Brings a sense of social context to a field dominated by purely formalist criticism. By revealing the struggles of American poets as they address important questions about art, social life, and the oppression they encounter, Damon aims to add a new dimension to cultural theory.

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US Poet Laureate Charles Simic translates Serbia's leading poet Novica Tadic. Includes Introduction by Charles Simic.

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Sanger is a domestic Dante navigating the dark woods of mid-life in his third collection of lyrical poetry.

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Clear-eyed, soaring poems capture our intimacy with the natural world and represent best of the Pulitzer and NBCC finalist's career.

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A penetrating, richly metaphoric survey of the human landscape.

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Sam Halpern's eyewitness account of a flourishing Jewish life wiped out by the Nazis, Sam's miraculous survival, and his ultimate success in America.

In this incredible memoir, Sam Halpern lovingly and mournfully shares his life story--from his vibrant childhood in Chorostkow, Poland, to the horrors of the labor camp he was forced

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For much of the twentieth century the names Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne were synonymous with style and glamour. Darling Mother, Darling Son is the first major publication to be drawn from an archive of Leslie Walford's papers. Revealing a tight bond between mother and son, the letters are alternately lively, opinionated, bossy and poignant.

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Vivid and sensual new poems from the editor of the prestigious Contemporary American Poetry.

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Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family and Hellman's heir, to reexamine his life and works.

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Hip Hop's larger-than-life emcees and famous couples inspire spoken word couplets, sonnets and prosepoems. Fiercely intelligent, emotionally packed, righteously feminist.

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Novelist Li weaves stories of her family with the recipes of her...

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"Award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston tells the story of the key roles played by her father, Thomas Gray, and her uncle, Fred D. Gray, in the historic Montgomery bus boycott, the action that kick-started the civil rights movement"--

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The majority of historians have viewed Lloyd George's early career to 1896 as superficial. Based on research, the author asserts that Lloyd George had a very strong commitment to Home Rule, official status for the Welsh language and strong labour legislation, and that he campaigned against the tide to being these measures about.

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Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with the full body of preceding Malouf criticism.

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Dynamic and influential force in the new poetry of Mexico.