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Articles with keyword "poetry"

Book cover for Stidentism

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Stridentism: Motors and Wings Included

By Steve Moyer

Mexican Cultural Movement in the Twenties Had Plenty of Varoom

Tobacco wagon

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Excerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry

On work and the work of local culture

Library of America book cover of American Poetry, 17th and 18th centuries

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The Early American Salon

By David S. Shields

In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.

Book jacket for "Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch"

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Lorca, American Style

By Steve Moyer

In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.

Photo portrait of Philip Larkin

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"Moving and Memorable"

By Francis-Noël Thomas

The complete poems of Philip Larkin

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Ted Lord

By Sam Howe Verhovek

Ted Lord brings poetry and tech savvy to the humanities in Washington.

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Property of Tennessee Williams

By Christopher McDonough

What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.

Dante Alighieri

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Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres

By Steve Moyer

A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?

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The Well-Wrought Textbook

By Garrick Davis

The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.

The Great Mosque of Cordoba

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Thieves of Pleasure

By Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner

A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.