Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Spinifex Press Body in Time / Nervous Arcs
Book SynopsisTwo poets known for delving into history and myth turn their attention to inner spaces, to time and the body's arcs. Jordie Albiston voices the unspoken languages of the body unearthing the complexity of memory, of desire and the art of the corporeal. Diane Fahey revisits the travelling body as it inhales memories of architecture and landscape. Scouring the body and the land for mines of trauma and of knowledge hard-won.
£13.46
Caitlin Press Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence
Book SynopsisThere is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the threat of such violence, is a daily reality. This is an anthology of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and oral interviews on the subject of violence against women including contributions by Kate Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave. The book began as a small idea: to create a chapbook and sell it at the next LoudSpeaker Festival. The response was overwhelming. This small idea found a chorus of voices, and its sound was too big for a chapbook.
£13.49
Caitlin Press Unfurled: Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women
Book SynopsisAmbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busy city street, pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother stands in a bath at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes mythical insights into rural and urban life. This is a unique blend of emerging and familiar voices and includes work from Gillian Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen -- truly a celebration of the women of the North.
£13.49
Arc Publications The Bright Rose: Early German Verse 800-1250
Book SynopsisNever published in verse form before, these translations of some of the earliest known German poetry give us a rich glimpse of a life that, while alien in so many ways, was not so different after all. The Minnesang poets, for example, engage in a highly professional ritual, but compose in cognitive metaphors that still ring true: love is a trap; love is a game; love is war. A beautiful, lyrical journey through the passions and fears of pre-Medieval German life, told by some of its finest poetic voices.
£9.49
Arc Publications Atlantic Drift An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics
Book SynopsisAtlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight new and existing writing and to define/redefine the discussions between poets from both sides of 'the pond'.
£17.99
Arkbound Rainbow Punch
Book SynopsisRainbow Punch is a lockdown legacy like no other. An anthology of mixed-genre writings from nineteen women, with each piece paired with an evocative illustration from one of six talented female artists. Drawing rainbows became a global phenomenon throughout the pandemic, and this sign of hope unites each piece within this anthology. Rainbow Punch showcases a comprehensive collection of perspectives spanning twelve different countries, from the experiences of motherhood across a spectrum of ages to the lives of dedicated, front-line healthcare workers, bereaved friends and lockdown-induced fantastical imaginings. This book is a spectacular tribute to our tenacity in difficult times and documents a landmark moment in shared global culture.
£12.34
Mount Orleans Press Picture Perfect
Book SynopsisAnthology of contemporary and classic poetry and prose compiled by author and academic Richard Davenport-Hines
£20.00
Bok Bok Books Floating Words: 2021
Book SynopsisA collection of children's poetry by Bengali authors, exploring a deep cultural and personal connection with water.
£7.99
ATF Press We Are Better Than This: Essays and Poems on
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£30.39
ATF Press We Are Better Than This: Essays and Poems on
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£22.79
Monash University Publishing Verge 2023: Defiant
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£17.99
Monash University Publishing Verge 2025
£17.99
Mage Publishers Song of the Ground Jay: Poems by Iranian Women,
Book SynopsisIranian women have been writing Persian poetry for over a thousand years, and in the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged once again as an outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise.In this expanded bilingual anthology encompassing both the most progressive and the most regressive eras for women in Iran, Mojdeh Bahar introduces readers to the poems of 104 Iranian women during the past sixty years. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, this expanded edition of Song of the Ground Jay engages with a very diverse array of Iranian women''s voices that includes the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-with varying styles, tones, and themes, painting a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern Persian poetry by women.For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with contemporary Persian poetry by Iranian women but doesn''t know where to start, Song of the Ground Jay opens a door and invites you to walk in.
£65.44
Dattsons Merge with the Muse: (An Anthology of English
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£14.56
Star Publications / Languages of the World Publications Masterpieces of Urdu Poetry: Selected Poems of 7
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£20.37
Cyberwit.net Collected Poems and Stories
Book SynopsisThe book has been Dedicated to the memory of Tor V gli (1949 - 2004) and the countless Asian tsunami victims of 2004.
£8.55
Cyberwit.net Never Again
Book SynopsisRobert P. Craig, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, is a Professor at San Jacinto College for 5 years. Previously, he taught at the University of Houston for 15 years. He has authored 4 books, edited 4 books, written 2 poetry books, and published 112 peer-reviewed articles. He has given talks globally, including in China, Malaysia, and Viet Nam.
£6.75
Museum Tusculanum Press 100 Danish Poems: From the Medieval Period to the
Book SynopsisText in English & Danish. Danish poetry is coloured by the distinctive tone of its language, shaped by the contours of the landscape, the rhythms of modern small-town life, and derives impressions from the luminous nights, the autumn storms, and the long dark winter months. This anthology provides a representative selection of 100 Danish poems by sixty-four poets, ranging from the medieval balladeers to poets already of international standing as well as younger poets. The edition is bilingual, allowing readers the possibility of reading the English and Danish texts side by side, and contains a lengthy introduction outlining the central developments in the history of Danish poetry, situating its most important oeuvres and themes within a larger international framework. The majority of the poems have not previously been made available in English. Published in collaboration with the University of Washington Press.
£999.99
Museum Tusculanum Press Poèmes Touaregs de l'Ayr, 2
Book SynopsisA collection of Tuareg poems, presented in their original language with a French translation, an introduction to the genre, a section on phonetics in Tuareg poetry and an extensive bibliography on the subject.
£48.59
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Indian Poetics:: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisIndian Poetics is a guide for English courses, explaining Indian poetics with examples from Sanskrit and English texts. It includes pronunciation guides, glossary, reading list, and transliteration chart.
£12.99
Shantarin Five Coimbra Poets
Book SynopsisFive Coimbra Poets takes historical contingency - the accident - as a pretext that would seem to unify profoundly different poetical voices from diverse centuries. Dom Dinis and Sá de Miranda are joined by the two 19th century poets who most marked the memory of literature which the city keeps alive and which the poems themselves keep alive of the city. Both Antero de Quental and Camilo Pessanha are, in this sense, crucial. The lyrical intensity of landscape and cityscape is alive as well in Fernando Assis Pacheco, who perhaps wrote the most penetrating and moving poems about Coimbra and its worlds, which were those of his childhood, adolescence and early manhood. Edited by Luís Quintais. Translation by Martin Earl and illustrations by Alya Kuznetsova.
£20.99
Shantarin Poesia: First Anthology
Book SynopsisPoesia. First Anthology offers English-language readers a bilingual edition of the first anthology that was made of Fernando Pessoa's poetic work. Edited and introduced by Adolfo Casais Monteiro in the 1940s, it comprises a fine selection of poems as well as several prose texts, including the letter Pessoa addressed to Casais Monteiro explaining the origin of his heteronyms. The book includes a preface by George Monteiro and an essay by Eduardo Lourenço. Translation by Austen Hyde and illustrations by Kleber Sales.
£32.24
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Penguin Publishing Group Overtime Selected Poems Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisLike his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, continuous nerve movie) of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent Americanone who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited Selected Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.
£20.00
Penguin Books Ltd The Mirror of My Heart A Thousand Years of
Book SynopsisAn anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin ClassicThe Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society's social extremes--many were princesses, some were entertainers, but many were wives and daughters who wrote simply for their own entertainment, and they were active in many different countries - Iran, India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. From Rabe'eh in the tenth century to FTrade ReviewIn every respect, The Mirror of My Heart is outstanding. Reading it one discovers a whole tradition of love poetry, epigram and elegy, movingly brought into English. Most important now, this anthology reminds us how much we all share the same joys, the same sorrows -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *
£12.34
HarperCollins A Book Of Luminous Things
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£12.34
Oxford University Press English Romantic Poets
Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical,archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.
£21.49
Oxford University Press, USA Contemporary East European Poetry An Anthology
Book SynopsisAn anthology featuring 130 poets from ten countries and translated from fifteen languages, including Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, and Yiddish. Translated by ninety translators it focuses on poetry from the 1960s and 70s.Trade Review"Extremely useful and timely edition."--Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo "A nice anthology with a wonderful selection of poets."--Lily Phillips, Duke University "Very timely and worthwhile!"--John Felstiner, Stanford University "This is a valuable compilation, especially for the up date section, and should be of compelling interest to any course on poetry, or in courses on Comparative Literature, European Studies, Humanities, etc., in which all readings are in English. . . . This anthology opens a world unknown to most of us, but well worth looking into, for reasons both literary and cultural."--Murray Sachs, Brandeis University "An indispensable text for students in translation and creative writing programs; offers a unique and inviting introduction to the poetry of the region."--Seymour Mayne, University of Ottawa "A praiseworthy attempt to mount a travelling exhibition of East European Poetry....This anthology offers exciting glimpses of poetic worlds still to be fully mapped."--The Times Literary Supplement "Though a very few East European poets, like Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert of Poland, hjave come to international attention, even the most proficient and prolific have reputations largely restricted, by language as much as politics, to their own countries. All the more welcome, then, is this very large representation of 130 poets from 10 Eastern bloc countries writing in 15 languages....In making this fresh compilation, Professor George has been aided by several expert consultants, and the validity of the translations is confirmed by the many very distinguished names among the 90 who rendered these diverse tongues into English."--Booklist "This ambitious anthology has long been overdue....Emery George and all the contributors to this anthology are to be congratulated for an excellent introduction to Slavic and East European poetry. Here is a work that can be used in poetry and translating courses and, at the same time, can stand as a mini-reference to non-Western poets."--World Literature Today "A good anthology, rich in the range off reading experience, attractive in the warm understanding of the editors who chose the pieces and certainly unique as a store of knowledge about East European poetry."--Journal of Baltic Studies "Wow! This is just what I want. It picks up where Postwar Polish Poetry and other anthologies stop."--Sam Garner, North Carolina A&T State University "A must for everybody interested in European literature."--Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania "A high-quality collection of poetry in translation. The poetry in this collection succeeds wonderfully in giving Western readers a sense of the variety of East European poetry, but just as important, a sense of the profound difference in voice and vision between East European poetry and its Western counterpart."--Thomas C. Carlson, The Commercial Appeal
£17.49
Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of the American South
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such as James Agee, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Flannery O''Connor appear in these pages, but so do people whose writing did not immediately reach a large audience. For example, Harriet A. Jacobs'' book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is now recognized as one of the most illuminating narratives of a former slave, was neglected for generations. And Sarah Morgan''s powerful Civil War Diary has only recently come to widespread attention. The Oxford Book of the American South presents compelling autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism as well as stories and selections from novels, and runs the spectrum from the conservative to tTrade Reviewwise and comprehensive volume of Southern writing ... * The Observer, 10 August 1997 *an anthology with a clear purpose and a coherent pattern evident through its 600 well-balanced pages. * The Independent Weekend section, 2 August 1997 *
£22.79
Oxford University Press, USA Grow Long Blessed Night
Book SynopsisThis book presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India''s three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit. The poems are derived from large anthological collections that date from as early as the first centruy CE to as late as the eight century. In Martha Selby''s masterful translations, the poems both stand on their own as poems in English and maintain the flavours of the original verses as reflected in idiom and structure. The poems are grouped according to themes, and annotated whenever a brief gloss is necessary. The book begins with several scholarly essays on the poems and how to read them, their origin, and the languages in which they were composed. This is followed by the poems themselves.Trade ReviewThe translations leap from the eye to the ear, viscerally vernacular, as if newly thought in English. The notes make the most arcane problems vividly clear. And the introductory essays, not just about poetry but about sex, women, love, and gender, are in themselves a major contribution to the study of all of these subjects. A pleasure for anyone to read, and a real eye-opener for anyone who claims to know the culture of ancient India, as well as for those who do not. * Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago *Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION ; 7. YOUNG WOMEN SPEAK TO THEIR FEMALE FRIENDS
£20.99
Oxford University Press Inc The Gazelle
Book SynopsisFrom the tenth century to the thirteenth, the Jews of Spain belonged to a vibrant and relatively tolerant Arabic-speaking society, a sophisticated culture that had a marked effect on Jewish life, thought, artistic tastes, and literary expression. In this companion volume to Wine, Women, and Death, we see how the surrounding Arabic culture influenced the new poetry that was being written for the synagogue service. The Hebrew poems here, accompanied by elegant English translations and explanatory essays, are short lyrics of the highest literary quality.Table of ContentsIntroduction God and Israel God and the Soul Afterword Notes Technical Terms Index
£48.45
Oxford University Press Gods and Mortals
Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other folkloric tradition, whether oral or written, the myths of classical Greece and Rome have survived and pervaded the consciousness of lands far-flung from their source. The mythic world of the ancients, peopled by glamorous gods and unstoppable heroes, in which the mortal and immortal commingled, is even now a living presence in 21st century culture, rather than a literary relic. Whether we know them by their Roman or their Greek names - Artemis or Minerva, Poseidon or Neptune - the figures of these ancietn myths captured the imagination of culture after culture across the globe, inspiring writers, artists, musicians and those of us who comprise the audience for their works. Can it be a coincidence that the greatest poets of the western world have each at one point tried their hand at retellings?Kossman''s anthology assembles some of the best of these poems inspired by ancient myths, organizing them by themse, and allowing the reader to compare one against thTrade Review"Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates "This is an appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth."--Choice "Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates "An appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Titans ; Zeus ; Demeter ; Apollo ; Aphrodite ; Other Olympians ; Lesser Immortals and Near-Immortals ; The Way to the Underworld ; Lovers ; Transformations ; Trespassers ; The Condemned ; Heroes ; Crete ; Thebes ; After Troy ; The Wanderings and the Homecoming of Odysseus ; Index of Poets ; Glossary ; Acknowledgments
£30.87
Clarendon Press The Poetic Edda
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: ''The Sibyl''s Prophecy'', ''The Rigmarole of Rigr'', ''Wayland''s Poem'', ''Skirnir''s Lay'', and ''Loki''s Quarrel''. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred''s interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.Trade ReviewHer textual analysis is ... excellent and challenging, and her notes on the manuscript tradition illuminating her comments are instructive ... the work is a remarkable achievement, throwing new light on the background and composition of the texts examined: the comments are most instructive, and the discussions open new perspectives. An outstanding book, henceforth indispensable for all students of the Poetic Edda. * Dr Edgar Polome, The Journal of Indo-European Studies *For lovers of the Poetic Edda, this volume will be a prized possession, enabling scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike to enter with ease into the daunting world of mythological poems... this is an edition of great power and potential influence... from now on it is likely that most English-speaking readers of the Poetic Edda will wish to take Edda II for their authoritative of Voluspa and the other poems. * Richard North, Saga-Book *Table of Contents[ALL FIVE POEMS DIVIDED INTO CONTENTS, TEXT AND TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY ON THE TEXT; VOLUSPA ALSO FEATURING AN APPENDIX: BALDRS DRAUMAR TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY; VOLUNDARKVIDA ALSO FEATURING AN INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES]
£272.50
Oxford University Press The Homeric Hymn To Demeter
Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymn to DemeterTrade ReviewOffers an incomparable approach to understanding archaic Greek poetry and religion....Richardson shows a good knowledge of the archeological and artistic evidence and a sure control of the relevant comparative material both from Greece and the Near East. The result is the best presentation of the Eleusinian cult available...this book is a treasure, well worth its cost. * Athenaeum *
£162.50
Clarendon Press Beowulf
Book SynopsisBeowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.To facilitate understanding and fluent reading of the poem, the Old English text of Beowulf is here accompanied by an extensive running glossary which includes the greater part of the vocabulary of the poem. Words that occur more than once are glossed on each occasion. The inclusion of marginal glosses will enable readers who may be at an early stage in the study of Old English to cope more easily with the complex vocabulary of the poem. But this edition is not meant only for those who are approaching Old English for the first time; it is designed to be suitable for students at any stage, and those who are already familiar with Old English will find the marginal glossesTrade Review`This will surely be the standard edition of Beowulf' Dr Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork`very student user-friendly' Dr J. A. George, Uninversity of Dundee`it will be most useful and exactly the kind of student edition that has long been needed' Dr William Marx, University of Wales, Lampeter`This up-to-date edition it a godsend.' Peter J. Lucas, University College, DublinWe have long been waiting for it.' Professor Dr Heinz Bergner, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessenpresents its familiar material in a conspicuously rejuvenated way...This edition follows a current trend towards providing most of the material necessary for the study of a major work within a single volume...The introduction has detailed and authoritative discussions of all the major aspects of the poem, apart from general critical interpretation, for which the reader is referred to items in the extensive bibliography. * English *This fully annotated edition makes the poem Beowulf more accessible in its original language, and provides the materials necessary for its detailed study by those new to Old English. * The Medieval World *Students working through Beowulf in the original language for the first time ... may find themselves grateful for this compact, efficient, and inexpensive introduction to the poem. Every part of Jack's text is presented with meticulous accuracy - a welcome virtue in publications of this kind. References are brief but apt, expert, and up-to-date. * John D. Niles, University of California, Berkeley, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan 1997 *
£35.99
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Black Zodiac Poems
£9.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Poetry of the 1930s A Critical Anthology
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£170.60
Lulu.com New Pony A Horse Less Anthology
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£10.89
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Heal
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£13.55
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp I in my Eye
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iUniverse An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry
£25.99
iUniverse Elderberry Wine Vintage 2000
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iUniverse Three Jewels Selected Poets
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iUniverse The Hidden Muse An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Carroll County Maryland Newspaper Poets
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iUniverse Tapestries of the Soul Homo Sapiens Path 01
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iUniverse Poets Unleashed An Anthology
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iUniverse Poets Unbound An Anthology of Selected Poems from the Nashua New Hampshire Poetry Workshop Group An Anthology of Selected Poems from the Nashua New Hamphshire Poetry Workshop Group
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