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Product Description: Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition...read more
By Eduardo C. Corral and Carl Phillips (foreword by)
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9780300178920 | Yale Univ Pr, April 3, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Eduardo C.

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Product Description: A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak LowComparing any human life to “a restless choir” of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: “now risk, and now / faintheartedness...read more
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9780374533151 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak LowComparing any human life to “a restless choir” of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: “now risk, and now / faintheartedness.

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Product Description: The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry was established in 2003 in memory of a poet and an inspired teacher of poetry to children and to the underprivileged. She is also remembered for her generosity in support of actions, world wide, to safeguard and to further Human Rights...read more
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9781893663275 | Bklt edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry was established in 2003 in memory of a poet and an inspired teacher of poetry to children and to the underprivileged.

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Product Description: Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft...read more
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9780374267162 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 31, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices.

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9780374532161 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 16, 2010, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices.

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Product Description: Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." It might best be described as poetry where, in the words of Juliana Spahr, "the lyric meets language"--both an investigation into the opacity of language and the expression of a passionate speaker who struggles to speak meaningfully...read more
By Dawn Lundy Martin and Carl Phillips (foreword by)
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9780820329918 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I.

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Product Description: What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis...read more
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9780374250034 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 18, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A National Book Award finalist presents a collection of poetic works that considers such topics as the rewards and costs of vision, the aftermath of a mind's inability to distinguish reality from what is desired, and the meaning of humanity in contrast to the natural world.

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9780374530822 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired?

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Product Description: Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Hailed from the beginning of his career for a poetry provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft, Phillips has in the course of eight critically acclaimed collections generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity...read more
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9780374530785 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices.

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In a seventh collection of poetry, the author of Coin of the Realm and The Tether explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual. Reprint.
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9780374249533 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual.

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9780374529628 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 12, 2005), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual.

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Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual.
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9780606330305 | Demco Media, December 27, 2004, cover price $20.30 | About this edition: Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual.

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The author of Rock Harbor, The Tether, and other books of poetry struggles with issues of aesthetics, identity, sensuality, and authority, discussing George Gerber, the Psalms, race, ethics, and much more. Original.
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9781555974015 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author of Rock Harbor, The Tether, and other books of poetry struggles with issues of aesthetics, identity, sensuality, and authority, discussing George Gerber, the Psalms, race, ethics, and much more.

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A sixth collection by the writer of The Tether considers the meaning of a life at the nexus of risk and safety while ruminating on such topics as desire, devotion, castigation, and mercy. Reprint.
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9780374251406 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2002), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A sixth collection by the writer of The Tether considers the meaning of a life at the nexus of risk and safety while ruminating on such topics as desire, devotion, castigation, and mercy.

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9780374528850 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2003), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A sixth collection by the writer of The Tether considers the meaning of a life at the nexus of risk and safety while ruminating on such topics as desire, devotion, castigation, and mercy.

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Turning frequently to nature, myth, and history for illustration, this first collection of poetry comes from a writer whose works' primary attributes are their physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780374267933 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Combines the attributes of physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith in a collection of lyric poems about nature, myth, and history.

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9780374528454 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2002), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Turning frequently to nature, myth, and history for illustration, this first collection of poetry comes from a writer whose works' primary attributes are their physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith.

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Product Description: "What happens when belief-as artistic ambition, as a lover's devotion, as faith in divinity-is met with a staggering indifference? This is the question which Jennifer Atkinson's The Drowned City seeks variously to answer, and to which the poems themselves, finally, elegantly, unflinchingly become the only appropriate answer, one that does not offer closure to its questions so much as a means of fashioning a life inside them...read more
By Jennifer Atkinson and Carl Phillips (introduced by)
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9781555534547 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 2, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "What happens when belief-as artistic ambition, as a lover's devotion, as faith in divinity-is met with a staggering indifference?

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Arguing that business success depends on an international perspective, the author uses a broad-based study of global leaders to show how managers must strive to understand, respect, and learn from other cultures. (view table of contents)
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9780684859026 | Simon & Schuster, January 11, 2000, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Argues that leaders of international corporations need to understand themselves, their employees, their business, and the cultures in which they are working, and offers profiles of countries and cultures

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Product Description: In his newest book, National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips creates a shadowy inner landscape where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully, often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us seeks to penetrate, believing in the possibility of light...read more
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9781555972981 | Graywolf Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In his newest book, National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips creates a shadowy inner landscape where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully, often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us seeks to penetrate, believing in the possibility of light.

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Product Description: IncludesThrough a Glass Darkly/Untimeliness - Laurence GoldsteinThe 17-Year Locust/The God of Variables Laments/"Neither/Nor"/Yesteryear/The Goddess of Quotas Laments - Yusef KomunyakaaParagraphs from a Day-Book - Marilyn HackerSecond Retreat: Knife-Sharpening at Vajrapani - Peter Dale ScottInterior: The Kill - Carl PhillipsDogs - Marcus CafagnaShibusa - Mary Yukari WatersTusk - Anupa Anjali SrinivasanEvents Leading to the Conception of Solomon, the Wise Child - Dannie AbseMarried Love - Mark RudmanStalky the Clown - Ira SadoffSweet - Edward FalcoSpeed Bump - Stephen DixonCrawfordsville Confidential - G...read more
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9780810159044 | Triquarterly Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: IncludesThrough a Glass Darkly/Untimeliness - Laurence GoldsteinThe 17-Year Locust/The God of Variables Laments/"Neither/Nor"/Yesteryear/The Goddess of Quotas Laments - Yusef KomunyakaaParagraphs from a Day-Book - Marilyn HackerSecond Retreat: Knife-Sharpening at Vajrapani - Peter Dale ScottInterior: The Kill - Carl PhillipsDogs - Marcus CafagnaShibusa - Mary Yukari WatersTusk - Anupa Anjali SrinivasanEvents Leading to the Conception of Solomon, the Wise Child - Dannie AbseMarried Love - Mark RudmanStalky the Clown - Ira SadoffSweet - Edward FalcoSpeed Bump - Stephen DixonCrawfordsville Confidential - G.

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Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Gay Men's Poetry Award, a professor of Afro-American Studies reflects on the place of religious devotion at the end of a century marked by failure and uncertainty. Original. IP.
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9781555972639 | Graywolf Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poems reflect on the place of religious devotion at the end of a century marked by failure and uncertainty

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Product Description: Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia. The quest for the real Dilmun began when the author revisited Bahrain in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds scattered across the country...read more
By Carl Phillips (introduced by)
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9780905743905 | Stacey Intl, December 1, 1996, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia.

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Product Description: poetry by author of IN THE BLOOD
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9781555972301 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: poetry by author of IN THE BLOOD

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Product Description: Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
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9781555531355 | Northeastern Univ Pr, October 30, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize

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