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A River Of Words : The Story Of William Carlos Williams

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written by Jen Bryant ; illustrated by Melissa SweetPublication Details
BookEerdmans Books for Young Readers2008Description
In this picture book biography of William Carlos Williams, Bryant’s engaging prose and Sweet’s stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man who found a way to earn a living and to honor his calling to be a poet. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 W7225r 2008 AVAILABLE
Ezra Pound : Poet : A Portrait Of The Man And His Work. 1, The Young Genius, 1885-1920

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A. David MoodyPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2007Links
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This first volume of what will be a full-scale biography presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius-at 15 he told his father “I want to write before I die the greatest poems that have ever been written”-setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and just after World War I. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3531.O82 Z75416 2007 AVAILABLE
Unpacking The Boxes : A Memoir Of A Life In Poetry

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Donald HallPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin2008Description
Hall’s invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where he first realized poetry was “secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious,” and ends with what he calls “the planet of antiquity,” a time of life dramatically punctuated by his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3515.A3152 Z478 2008 AVAILABLE
Critical Companion To T.S. Eliot : A Literary Reference To His Life And Work
Against The Grain : The Literary Life Of A Poet : A Memoir

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by Reed Whittemore ; foreword by Garrison KeillorPublication Details
BookDryad Press2007Description
Prolific poet and essayist, teacher, poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, Reed Whittemore began his literary life in the late 1930s when he and Yale roommate James Angleton founded the poetry magazine Furioso—whose pages saw the publication of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and ee cummings, among others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) PS3545.H868 Z53 2007 AVAILABLE
T.S. Eliot

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Craig RainePublication Details
BookOxford University Press2006Links
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Eliot’s work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot’s poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Raine also examines Eliot’s criticism–including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination–and he concludes with a convincing refutation of charges that Eliot was an anti-Semite. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3509.L43 Z8173 2006 AVAILABLE
The Book Of Martyrdom And Artifice : First Journals And Poems, 1937-1952

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Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill MorganPublication Details
Book1st Da Capo Press edDa Capo Press2006Links
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Conversations with Kerouac, his beloved muse Neal Cassady, and others have been transcribed from Ginsberg’s memory, and information will be found here relating to the famous murder of David Kammerer by Carr–a startlingly violent chapter in Beat prehistory–which has been credited in New York magazine as “giving birth to the Beat Generation.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3513.I74 Z46 2006 AVAILABLE
Blue Arabesque : A Search For The Sublime

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Patricia HamplPublication Details
Book1st edHarcourt2006Links
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Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3558.A4575 Z46 2006 AVAILABLE
Edwin Arlington Robinson : A Poet’s Life

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Scott DonaldsonPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2007Links
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At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. Born in 1869, the youngest son of a well-to-do family in Gardiner, Maine, Robinson had two brothers: Dean, a doctor who became a drug addict, and Herman, an alcoholic who squandered the family fortune. Robinson was a major poet and a pivotal figure in the course of modern American literature, yet over the years his reputation has declined. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3535.O25 Z645 2007 AVAILABLE
E.E. Cummings

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by Catherine ReefPublication Details
BookClarion Books2006Links
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Serving as both an exploration of his rich and sensational life as well as a foundation from which readers can learn about his work, this comprehensive biography includes Cummings’s original sketches and paintings, quotes from friends and family, photographs, and the poetry of Cummings and his peers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 C970r AVAILABLE
I Celebrate Myself : The Somewhat Private Life Of Allen Ginsberg

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Bill MorganPublication Details
BookViking2006Description
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, the first full biography of Allen Ginsberg?from birth to death Allen Ginsberg was America?s most influential poet since World War II, a figure who was in the vanguard of every popular movement of that time, from the emergence of the Beat generation to the countercultural revolution to the interest in Eastern spirituality. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3513.I74 Z748 2006 AVAILABLE
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