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Coal Mountain Elementary
Nowak, Mark

A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper account... (more)

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Dance Writings and Poetry
Denby, Edwin & Robert Cornfield, ed.
This elegant book includes Denby's (the most important & influential American dance critic of this century) reactions to choreography, as well as dance in film, dance criticism & meaning in dance.... (more)

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Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought
Frede, Michael & A. A. Long, ed.
Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctnes... (more)

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Homer: Iliad XIII-XXIV
Willcock, M. M., ed. & Homer
This text provides a line-by-line commentary on Books XIII-XXIV of Homer's epic poem, 'The Iliad'.... (more)

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Room with a View
Forster, E. M. & Malcolm Bradbury
Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations ... (more)

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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
Hardwick, Elizabeth
In Seduction and Betrayal, Elizabeth Hardwick considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature. A gallery of unforgettable portraits as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia ... (more)

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Selected Poems
Stevens, Wallace & John N. Serio, ed.
The first new selection of this acclaimed poet’s work in nearly twenty years—now in paperback—is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.... (more)

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Sweethearts
Williams, Emmett
A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, first published by Something Else Press (where Williams was... (more)

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War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Logue, Christopher & Homer
Author's Note Introduction by Garry Wills Kings The Husbands War Music Patrocleia GBH Pax... (more)

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