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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 5290 Registered: 11-1998 |
Dear Membership –With fall officially upon us, we thought you’d need some good books to cuddle up with by the fire on those cool days. Look through this list of additions we’ve made to the BookShop for Autumn 2005: Poetry Volumes American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volume I: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker) An historic anthology that rediscovers – and redefines – America’s poetic heritage. Americans’ Favorite Poems The 200 poems in this anthology were selected from the personal letters of thousands of Americans. The Invisible World by John Canaday Winner of the 2001 Walt Whitman Award. Tender by Toi Derricotte Derricotte focuses on the aftermath of slavery, continued sexism, and violence within the family. Radio, Radio by Ben Doyle Winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award. Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan Winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award. Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield Recipient of the 70th Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement from the Academy of American Poets. Miracles and Mortifications by Peter Johnson Winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award. Notes from the Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim Winner of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell Poems selected by Galway Kinnell from his eight collections published between 1960 and 1994. Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Charles Martin Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Hinge & Sign by Heather McHugh McHugh brings poems from four previous volumes together with a significant amount of new work. Collected Poems by James Merrill Merrill’s poems encompass lyric pathos, ebullient comedy, rapt romance and acrid satire. Blizzard of One by Mark Strand Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska The definitive collection of Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry in English. Another Language of Flowers by Dorothea Tanning Paintings by Dorothea Tanning accompanied by poetry from twelve highly esteemed poets. A Point Is That Which Has No Part by Liz Waldner Winner of the 2000 James Laughlin Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize. And one Reference Book: Dictionary of Poetic Terms by Jack Myers, Don C. Wukasch Now in a newly updated edition containing more than 1,600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present day. All highly acclaimed selections with a little something for everyone. Treat yourself to a volume or two to keep you company and enrich your poetic experiences. Just visit our BookShop and fill up your bookshelves! Love, M (Administrator) |
