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Product Description: Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time...read more
By Stephen Berg (trans)
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9780807831779 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.

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9780807859759 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.

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Product Description: “We need poets like this. Mr. Berg relentlessly describes what we would often prefer to forget but can’t allow ourselves to forget.”—The New York Times Book Review Certain poems of Zen masters, including work by Ikkyu, Basho, and Dogen, have haunted and nourished readers from around the world for centuries—and Steven Berg for fifty years...read more
By Steven Antinoff (foreword by) and Stephen Berg
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9781556592683 | Copper Canyon Pr, April 21, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “We need poets like this.

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9780810151666 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $22.01

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Product Description: Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem). In Still Unilluminated I..., poems reinvent the work of Arthur Rimbaud...read more
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9781931357968 | Sheep Meadow Pr, June 28, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem).

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Product Description: Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem). In Still Unilluminated I..., poems reinvent the work of Arthur Rimbaud...read more
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9781931357951 | Sheep Meadow Pr, June 28, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem).

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Product Description: "...a truly great poet, one in whom the lyrical image-maker and the critical human intelligence dealing with the tragic twentieth century are utterly fused, as they so rarely are . . . The quality of the translation is such that it is hard to remember the poems were not first written in English, even though one is always aware of Radnoti's vision as European and of his locus as Hungary...read more
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9781931357128 | Revised edition (Sheep Meadow Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: ".

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9780252070914 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: In "X=", Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming urgency and detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780252027802 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In "X=", Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity.

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Product Description: Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those influences have led to a sense of poetic mastery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Stephen Berg (editor)
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9780966491395 | Paul Dry Books Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process.

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9780914061823 | Orchises Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters...read more
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9781556591525, titled "Crow With No Mouth Ikkyu: 15th Century Zen Master" | Reprint edition (Copper Canyon Pr, March 1, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there.
9781556590221 | Copper Canyon Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: poetry, classic Japanese, tr Stephen Berg

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Presenting an outstanding array of work by some of America's finest poets, an innovative anthology represents twenty-five years of selections of The American Poetry Review and encompasses the poems of Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Allen Ginsberg, and other notable writers. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Stephen Berg (editor), David Bonanno (editor) and Arthur Vogelsang (editor)
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9780393048261 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An anthology represents twenty-five years of selections of The American Poetry Review and encompasses the poems of Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, and Allen Ginsberg.

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9780393321708 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2001), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: An anthology represents twenty-five years of selections of The American Poetry Review and encompasses the poems of Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, and Allen Ginsberg.

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Offers a collection of religious and autobiographical poetry focusing on life in America's urban cities. (view table of contents)
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9781878818799 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of religious and autobiographical poetry focusing on life in America's urban cities.

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Product Description: Porno Diva is a book of desperate longing disgusied by bravado, whimsy and wild intelligence. Berg creates a labyrinth for our agesas Kafka did for his. It is deeply and joyously orginal. Gerald Stern
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9781889097398 | Hard Pr Inc, August 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Porno Diva is a book of desperate longing disgusied by bravado, whimsy and wild intelligence.

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Product Description: This isn't a book to read aloud in polite company. But what a refreshment that is, given the overpowering strain of gentility and restraint in American poetry. Useful as decorum may be as a poetic virtue in Moore and Bishop, interesting as some poems are by Frost and Stevens that conceal rather than reveal, such tendencies have become moribund in lesser writers...read more
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9781884800177 | Four Way Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This isn't a book to read aloud in polite company.

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9781884800146 | Four Way Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This isn't a book to read aloud in polite company.

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Product Description: A collection of "versions" of some of the world's great, untranslated literature by an important American poet. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781556590757 | Copper Canyon Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of "versions" of some of the world's great, untranslated literature by an important American poet.

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9780252064579 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $13.95

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9781556590443 | Copper Canyon Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $21.00

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9781556590436 | Copper Canyon Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $12.00

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Poems consider the past, fear, mystery, art, mortality, grief, violence, love, nature, the seasons, infinity, religion, consciousness, and the emotions (view table of contents)
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9780252012358 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poems consider the past, fear, mystery, art, mortality, grief, violence, love, nature, the seasons, infinity, religion, consciousness, and the emotions

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By Stephen Berg (editor)
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9780060149215 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1983, cover price $2.98

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Product Description: Stephen Berg is the author of "Oblivion", "In It", "New and Selected Poems", "Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu", and other books of poetry. The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Pew fellowships, he is founder and coeditor of the American Poetry Review.
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9780252008337 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Stephen Berg is the author of "Oblivion", "In It", "New and Selected Poems", "Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu", and other books of poetry.

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Product Description: "With Akhmatova at the Black Gates".
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9780252008344 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: "With Akhmatova at the Black Gates".

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With attention to the intensity of spoken language, a poet and a classicist combine talents to create a new translation of Sophocles' tragic drama about the downfall of Oedipus after he murders his father and marries his mother
By Stephen Berg (trans), Diskin Clay (trans) and Sophocles
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9780195023251 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 23, 1978, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With attention to the intensity of spoken language, a poet and a classicist combine talents to create a new translation of Sophocles' tragic drama about the downfall of Oedipus after he murders his father and marries his mother

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9780672613548 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1976, cover price $9.50

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An anthology of nineteen, post-World War II poets, who have rejected traditional poetic techniques for free expression
By Stephen Berg (compiler)
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9780672606694 | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1969, cover price $12.10 | About this edition: An anthology of nineteen, post-World War II poets, who have rejected traditional poetic techniques for free expression

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