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• The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan
• Classic Haiku Tradition
• Modernist Haiku Poetics
• Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Haiku
• Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics
• Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African "Primal Outlook upon Life"
• Jack Kerouac's Haiku and Classic Haiku Poetics
• Kerouac's Haiku and Beat Poetics
• Kerouac's Haiku and The Dharma Bums
• Sonia Sanchez's Haiku and Blues Poetics
• James Emanuel's Jazz Haiku.

"This book traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and its history as one of the most popular East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchanges in modern and postmodern times"-- Provided by publisher.

In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy?

• A frenzy of designs from the age of enlightenment. Major and I ; You, reader ; The Flâneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail ; Going into battle ; The flag of imagination furled ; November in Xichang ; My children's inheritance ; A brief reflection on torture near the Library of Congress ; The cloistered life of nuns ; Europa ; My son and me ; I've said too much ; The body's uncontested need to devour: an explanation ; The body's uncontested need to devour ; Vermont eclogue ; Winter ; Dear Zaki ; In memory of Derek Alton Walcott ; The romantics of Franconia Notch
• Urban renewal. Washington Square ; Thinking of frost ; Paris ; North Philadelphia ; Fish & wildlife ; Double view of the Adirondacks as reflected over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park ; The Valkyrie ; A grandfather's lecture
• The absurd man suite. The absurd man at fourteen ; Visitation ; Augustinian ; What happened ; The day after ; Europa revisited ; The most beautiful man never performs hard labor ; The absurd man on Objet Petit A' ; The absurd man has pink-eye ; Play money ; Oracle & prophecy ; The absurd man dispenses advice ; How to avoid a crash ; Dr. Bovary to Monsieur Dupuis (alt. take 1) ; Our eyes were far away ; Why the absurd man doesn't dance anymore ; The absurd man swipes left in New York ; No one forgets ; The absurd man in the mirror ; Now that you are here, I can think ; The absurd man freed of his innocence ; Paper dolls at the Met ; The absurd man is subject to pareidolia ; Nothing to see here, move along ; Double major

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lost mother with a stunning, lucid lyricism. The arc of a man emerges; he bravely confronts his past, including his betrayals and his mistakes, and questions who he is as a father, as a husband, as a son, and as a poet. With intense musicality and verve, The Absurd Man also faces outward, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination.
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• Introduction / by Kevin Young
• Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899
• Lift every voice: 1900-1918
• The dark tower: 1919-1936
• Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959
• Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975
• Blue light sutras: 1976-1989
• Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008
• After the hurricane: 2009-2020

Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events. -- adapted from jacket

"At the core of this elegantly crafted book is a riveting cautionary tale about heartbreak, disaffection, and visceral family dysfunction that soars to agonizing life as a result of the poet's precise and startling language. Set against a largely dystopic landscape of 'bursting gamma rays, rogue asteroids...and latent nuclear fiascos, ' AND NOT TO BREAK is chock-full of 'weird surprises' and unpredictable syntactical energy. Beware, most of all, Sylvester's exhilarating hyphenated adjectives that pack a psychological and intellectual wallop.--Peter Covino"--From back cover.

"The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowledge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure-all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experience of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combination of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that uplift and unsettle, Queen's poems show us the terrible consequences and stunning miracles of how we choose to live"-- Provided by publisher

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way? The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.
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"Contemplative poems write a contentious love letter to a flawed world."--Publisher's description
"'About a quarter of the way through Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow, the reader encounters an impossible poem called 'Dear, beloved.' It’s impossible because who could write it? It’s as large, in its way, as any epic, but as compressed as any lyric, and as beautiful as any lyric, but as foundational as any epic, but it seems to come after all things, though it seems, also, diurnal. And it’s impossible also because it’s a highlight, not the highlight, of Arrow, a debut as assured as any first or last book, as compelling as any, as well-made.'--Shane A. McCrae"--Back cover

• Introduction: Arab-American Literature: Origins, Development, and Spaces of Resistance
• Chapter 1: The Poetry of 9/11: Contrapuntal Spaces of Memory and History
• Chapter 2: Haunted Spaces: Ghostliness, Loss, and Violence
• Chapter 3: Deconstructing the Hegemony of English: Experimental Spaces and Linguistic Crossings
• Chapter 4: Naming Oppressions, Representing Empowerment: June Jordan's and Suheir Hammad's Poetic Projects
• Conclusion.
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Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate link and multilayered connections between poetry and resistance. In this study of contemporary Arab-American poetry, Sirene Harb analyzes how resistance, defined as the force challenging the dominant, intervenes in ways of rethinking the local and the global vis-a-vis traditional paradigms of time, space, language and value.
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• Introduction: Revival Poetry
• Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal
• Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister
• Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste
• Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety
• Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic AddressConclusion: Conversions of Poetic History
• Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry
• Appendix B: Selected Verse

In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor through the World, " in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies. Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus of evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.
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• Introduction: Revival Poetry
• Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal
• Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister
• Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste
• Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety
• Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic AddressConclusion: Conversions of Poetic History
• Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry
• Appendix B: Selected Verse

In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor through the World, " in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies. Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus of evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.
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Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.
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"Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures the violence of blast-off, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond through poetry. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across the decades, and into the present"-- Provided by publisher