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Subject Area: Poetry-Thematic

Cute and Perky, Slim and Sexy - A Poet's Guide to Personal Ads
 MacPherson, Jennifer B.
1996 0-7734-2669-8
A poetic account of the author's seven-month sojourn through the Personal Ads scene.

Ecological Poetics of James Dickey: A Study in How Landscape Shapes the Being of Man
 Walker, Sue Brannan
2013 0-7734-4499-8 296 pages
An intelligent and provocative study exploring how the dynamic between nature and humanity animates many of Dickey’s major works. Its aim is to show the ways in which Dickey seeks to understand how it is possible for beings “to be” and what this means in terms of self-realization. This intelligent study makes a major contribution to our understanding of a major poet and helps us to see James Dickey’s poetic and fictional corpus in an entirely new light.

History, Religion and Politics in William Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets
 Delli Carpini, John
2004 0-7734-6411-5 230 pages
A complete and thorough study of William Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets emphasizing especially religion and history. The Ecclesiastical Sonnets are a sonnet sequence of 132 poems beginning with the founding of Christianity in England to the state of religion in Wordsworth’s day. Although a later work, they characterize many topics close to Wordsworth’s heart – the idea of history, pantheism, nature and Christianity. This book studies history and religion as well as Wordsworth’s use of sonnet sequence, a genre of his later writing. There has been very little written about the Ecclesiastical Sonnets. This book will help students to achieve a complete view of Wordsworth the young romantic as well as the elder statesman (poet laureate) of England.

Poems of Exile and Home: In the Wake of Our Dreams
 Pointer, Fritz
2023 1-4955-1152-9 426 pages
This is a collection of poetry by Daniel Pule Kunene edited by Fritz Pointer. (Hardcover Edition) "Beneath Kunene's wry humor and mischievous wit, we find a passionate concern for, and deep understanding of, the human condition in all its manifestations. He reflects on themes of nature, time, love and hope, life and death, dream and reality, freedom and bondage, war and peace, in their historical as well as contemporary context of anticolonial struggle and racial strife." -Fritz Pointer [Prologue]

Poems of Exile and Home: In the Wake of Our Dreams
 Pointer, Fritz
2016 1-4955-1158-8 426 pages
This is a SOFTCOVER EDITION of a collection of poetry by Daniel Pule Kunene edited by Fritz Pointer. "Beneath Kunene's wry humor and mischievous wit, we find a passionate concern for, and deep understanding of, the human condition in all its manifestations. He reflects on themes of nature, time, love and hope, life and death, dream and reality, freedom and bondage, war and peace, in their historical as well as contemporary context of anticolonial struggle and racial strife." -Fritz Pointer [Prologue]

Poetry of Clara Eugenia Ronderos Seasons of Exile (estaciones En Exilio)
 Ronderos, Clara Eugenia
2015 1-4955-0284-8 116 pages
“This collection represents search for the past and an intellectual and sensual awareness of being in the present... Ronderos is a poet of utmost skill and sensitivity… The translations by Berg and Ronderos capture with expertise and artistry the sounds, images and ideas of the original Spanish wonderfully.” –Eileen Mary O’Connor, Professor of Spanish and English, Lesley University

Scriptural Poetics in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
 Balsamo, Gian
2002 0-7734-7145-6 208 pages