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  • The Art of Syntax

    Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song

    Series series Art of...
    With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure—this architecture—is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Art of Syntax

    Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song

    Narrated by Elena Anderson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 27 min

    With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure―this architecture―is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The ... Read more

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  • Future Narratives

    Projections of Female Identity

    These short stories by Australian women feature projections of the life of a woman in the year 2122. The authors were given freedom to design the social, political and environmental aspects of that life.A divergent set of stories has emerged. Themes of utopia, dystopia, female identity and motherhood are prominent, alongside projections of climate change catastrophe. Examples of women exerting ... Read more

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  • Freckles and The Great Beach Rescue

    Illustrated by Carol Schwartz ...
    Series Book 2 - FRECKLES
    FRECKLES and The Great Beach Rescue is the second book in the FRECKLES adventure series. In this story, Freckles visits the beach where he befriends a sand crab named Pinch. Together they find the strength to rescue baby sea turtles that are trapped in a fishing net, moments before an impending storm. This story teaches children the important lessons of believing in yourself, recognizing ... Read more

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  • Captive Voices

    New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008

    Series series Southern Messenger Poets
    Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held ... Read more

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  • Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero

    Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics

    One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics ... Read more

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  • The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia

    by Amy Wright, Darnell Arnoult, April J. Asbury, Emma Aylor, Zeina Azzam, Jeff Bagato, George Bandy0, Christina Beasley1, John Berry2, David Black3, Terry Hall Bodine4, Tara Bray5, Robert Brickhouse6, Candace Butler7, Ben E. Campbell8, John Casteen9, Michael Chitwood0, Kathy Davis1, R.H.W. Dillard2, Rita Dove3, Michael Dowdy4, Hilda Downer5, Angie Dribben6, Claudia Emerson7, J. Indogo Eriksen8, Latorial Faison9, Forrest Gander0, Matthew Gilbert1, Leah Naomi Green2, Lucy Fowlkes Griffith3, Raymond P. Hammond4, Cathryn Hankla5, Chelsea Harlan6, Mr. David Havird7, Jane Hicks8, Mary Crockett Hill9, Scott Honeycutt0, Emily Hooker1, John Hoppenthaler2, Jessica K. Hylton3, Luisa A. Igloria4, Edison Jennings5, Don Johnson6, Jeffrey N. Johnson7, Joshua Jones8, M.A. Keller9, Jennifer Key0, Chelsea Krieg1, Jessi Lewis2, Christopher Linforth3, Robert Wood Lynn4, Catherine MacDonald5, Margaret Mackinnon6, Josh Mahler7, Jeff Mann8, John Q. Mars9, Irène P. Mathieu0, Gretchen McCroskey1, Marianne Mersereau2, Jesse Millner3, Jim Minick4, Felicia Mitchell5, Thorpe Moeckel6, Elisabeth Murawski7, Yvonne Nguyen8, Mel Nichols9, Evan Nicholls0, William Notter1, Gregory Orr2, James Owens3, Lisa J. Parker4, Lynda Fleet Perry5, Kiki Petrosino6, Alex Pickens7, Matt Prater8, Rita Sims Quillen9, Valencia Robin0, Allison Seay1, Olivia Serio2, Leona Sevick3, Leslie Shiel4, Maia Siegel5, Rod Smith6, Ron Smith7, R.T. Smith8, Lisa Russ Spaar9, Sappho Stanley0, Sofia M. Starnes1, Ruth Stone2, Henry Taylor3, Randolph Thomas4, Michael Trocchia5, Ellen Bryant Voigt6, G.C. Waldrep7, Jorrell Watkins8, L.A. Weeks9, Brian Phillip Whalen00, Stephen Scott Whitaker01, Beth Oast Williams02, Abby Wolpert03, Karenne Wood04, Diana Woodcock05, Annie Woodford06, Amy Woolard07, Charles Wright08, Charles Gillispie09 ...
    Series Book 9 - The Southern Poetry Anthology
    Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, ... Read more

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  • Old and New Poems

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    This collection drawn from more than forty years of the poet's work is "a superb introduction to newcomers and a sumptuous offering to familiars" ( Publishers Weekly).Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall has been celebrated with numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Medal of the Arts.This volume collects some of Hall's finest short poetry written between ... Read more

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  • The New and Collected Poems of Jane Gentry

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    This definitive anthology assembles a wide-ranging retrospective of Gentry's most celebrated poems alongside new, previously unpublished works.Jane Gentry (1941–2014) possessed an uncanny ability to spin quietly expansive and wise verses from small details, objects, and remembered moments. The hallmarks of her work are insight into nature, faith, the quotidian, and?perhaps most prominently?the ... Read more

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  • Under Magnolia

    A Southern Memoir

    by Frances Mayes ...
    A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

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    How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read

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    Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write.Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most ... Read more

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