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For readers tired of the first-person lyric so popular in our day, read Paul Zimmer, who must share this ennui. Through his career, Zimmer has been one of our finest Persona poets and one of our best Character poets, in the tradition of Edwin Arlington Robinson. Here, collected for the first time, are his wonderful Zimmer poems, his many poems celebrating eccentric characters, and his fine traditional nature lyrics (which don't neglect the dark side of nature as well). Richly humorous in some poems, moving in others (a fine writer of love poetry), you'll laugh richly and feel deeply with this end-of-the-alphabet poet, among our finest.

I checked this book out of my college library for a research paper I was working on. I was not at first planning on reading the whole book. But once I started looking at it I found it very interesting and couldn't help myself. I learned a lot I never knew before about female involvement in Medieval art, etc.

This is a book that Cumberland Island history buffs must have. Bullard has accomplished an amazing level of research and put it together in a very readable format. While she has glossed over many details found in other books, she presents facts and data I have never seen in any other book written about Cumberland. So, it is not the only book you need to understand Cumberland; you do need the others. too. The history written here goes as far back as one could go in the written history of Cumberland. You will not be displeased with this book. And as I said earlier, it is a must have for those who collect books on the Cumberland Islands. As a side note, I had hoped for a little more data on Little Cumberland Island...but, this is one great book. And for you researchers, almost the last third of the book contains reference material where you can begin or further your own research of Cumberland Island or the variety of people connected with her past.

Cups is a good read. Candy wrote it when she was teaching creative writing at the bohemian/cowboy college SUL ROSS. Many of the images have pseudo-post modern style lyrics. But Candy goes beyond the imagined and produces some wild imagery.

Anyone can get excited with this one. If you dig it, it will really make your skull tweek!

Among the books that so far have appaeared this is a ilustrated biography by Keith Sagar, already known as editor of Lawrence selected poems. It was in it s last print a glossy, large and lavishly illustrated book that could have been easily dismiss as another 'coffee table' volume; but the book is in fact much more than that. The biography takes us to meet intelectuals and aristocrats, writers and artist, pesants and peons, bohemians and bankers as Lawrence travels from London and Cornwall, Germany and Italy, New Mexico, Ceylon and Australia. But although we are taken on a usual conducted biographical tour we are not taken in a usual way. What mr Sagar has done is novel and get us nearer to Lawrence the human. He has told this life by means of stracts, mainly from Lawrence's writings specially from letters and diaries.

There is alot that is of interest and quite instructing such as his strong emotional dependence to Frida while at the same time attempting to from a spiritual community... his Ramanim who he needed to believe was possible to form if he was to retain any faith in humanity and the human future. A good book but in the end a sad story he gives, of one man who's writings are now part of the English lemguage heritage, writings, that will remain read perhaps for centuries to come.

Being a Christian and a Die Hard Georgia Fan this devotional book has been a great read. Receiving life lessons from the bible while learning new things about the University of Georgia is the best of both worlds.

Lewis Campbell

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New York Times best-selling author Louise Rennison delivers another uproarious chapter from the life of teenaged British wondergirl Georgia Nicolson, the irrepressible star of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. Georgia has chosen Robbie the Sex God over Dave the Laugh as her permanent snogging partner. But has she made the right choice?

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As everyone knows, the fundamental problem with contemporary poetry is the complete absence of any shared criterion for judgment. DARE SAY, Tod Marshall's astounding debut collection, calls glaring attention to this deficiency. Here is poetry that declares without qualification or snickering inside-information its generous humanity, its verbal dexterity, its beauty and inventiveness and wisdom and sheer overwhelming emotional force. Begin with Whitman, run through Stevens, Williams, and Pound, and detour through Revell and Levine, and you begin to locate where Marshall resides: namely, in the absolute center of the primary tradition of American poetry in this century. From the daring updating of modernism that is "After Kandinsky," to the heartbreaking urban-sprawl confessional "Metaphyisc, with Applebys," and all the way to the unapologetic hymn to our divine carnality, "Choir," a poem that I have permanently hanging on my wall in my office to remind me of the core of my existence, this is a collection that makes mincemeat of most of the competition.

These On My Own books are great! This book is another fantastic installment. I've read other accounts of this story but this one is the most accessible and interesting. Try it!

The subject of this watershed book, Dave, the famous Edgefield, South Carolina, poet-potter, was born near Edgefield about the year 1800. He died after 1870, having enjoyed only a few years of freedom. These few stark facts could easily have been all that one could say of this man. Dave's is a wonderful story of survival, especially the survival of the creative, human spirit while laboring under the worst form of tyranny. The author has documented the facts of Dave's life clearly and concisely; however, this book is much more than a list of mere facts. Somehow Dave learned to read and to write a beautiful script. At an early age he was sent to the pottery works near Edgefield, where he became a master potter. One of this splendid poem-jars recently sold at auction for over $80,000. One might well think that surely Dave's story must end here. Fortunately, it does not. Dave, the enslaved African-American potter, was also a "publishing" poet! He "published" his first known poem in 1834 by inscribing the work in the yet soft clay of one of his superb storage jars. He continued to "publish" his poems in this unusual manner for a period of twenty-eight years. His last known poem is dated 3 May 1862. Dave's poems are short, cryptic works. And, until the present work, no one has attempted the delicate task of unraveling their mysterious content. The author has done so with masterly delicacy and skill; moreover, the author's interpretations are presented in a manner which encourage his readers to form their own opinions of what the poet is saying. The author's text and original color illustrations for many of the poems are in perfect harmony with his subject. The portrait of the poet-potter which emerges from the pages of this book is absolutely riveting. Dave is witty and wise. He is the young David who killed the lion. And readers will find, when this book is read through, that Dave could be sexy, too. This book is very far from a commercial production. The author, Samuel J. Hardman, is a publishing poet and a well-known outsider-folk artist. He is also an authority on the 17th century English poet "Ephelia." His important work on the poet has been published in literary journals here and in England and has received notice in the 2nd edition of "An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers." His "Dave's Poems" is undoubtedly an important publication; moreover, it is an immensely artistic and enjoyable work.