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Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995 more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

This volume is the third by Hayden Caruth to be nominated for a National Book Award for poetry. It was the winner in 1996.

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Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

This anthology of poetry presents works from influential poets of the twentieth century.

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Collected Longer Poems

Collected Longer Poems more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

For fifty years, Hayden Carruth's poetry has been distinguished by the indelible presence of passion, compassion, and radical philosophy. Collected Longer Poems gathers the poet's choice of his narrative work and poems in sequence, including his epic on the nature of romance, The Sleeping Beauty, and meditative poems on the rural northeast that ...

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Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays

Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Noted poet and critic Carruth looks back on his life, his work, and the mental illness that led him to attempt suicide more than once. RELUCTANTLY pulls together these series of reflection to depict a life that has been in the service of art and the toll that vocation can take.

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Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991

Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 presents all the lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poetry the poet has chosen from the past forty-five years, including a section of new poems not found in his previous twenty-two books. It is an extraordinary literary event. Hayden Carruth has been one of the most widely published and ...

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Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems

Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems more books like this

by Hayden Carruth, Sam Hamill (Introduction by)

"Carruth [is] one of the lasting literary signatures of our time."-"Library Journal" (starred review) "Carruth...contains multitudes."-"Booklist" (starred review) "Carruth is a people's poet... a virtuoso of form."-"The Nation" This "portable Carruth" gathers new poems with the essential works from a major American poet. Included are lyrics, ...

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Voice That is Great Within Us

Voice That is Great Within Us more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

This anthology of poetry presents works from influential poets of the twentieth century.

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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs

A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs more books like this

by James Laughlin, Hayden Carruth (Introduction by)

James Laughlin (1914-1997) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions, "A Common Place Book of Pentastichs," the last book of his own that he helped to prepare in his lifetime, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a new form of his own devising first introduced in "The Secret Room" (1997). A note to "Thirty ...

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Sitting in: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics

Sitting in: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to ...

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Suicides and Jazzers

Suicides and Jazzers more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Musings and revelations about poetry, jazz, and the rocky course of one poet's life

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Selected Essays more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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Beside the Shadblow Tree: A Memoir of James Laughlin more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Here the American poet Hayden Carruth recalls his relationship with the poet James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions, who died in 1997. Under the founding, sole leadership of Laughlin, New Directions emerged as one of the most influential presses of the latter 20th century, publishing, among other major writers, the first English-language ...

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After The stranger more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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Asphalt Georgics more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

America's paved-over landscape dotted with its oases of shopping malls and franchise strips is the setting for Hayden Carruth's Asphalt Georgics, a new collection of thirteen poems in the common speech of Upstate New York.

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Luisa Domic & Shawno more books like this

by George Dennison, Hayden Carruth (Introduction by)

"Luisa Domic" is a short novel about the experiences of a refugee woman after the Chilean military coup in 1971; "Shawno" is a novella about a man and his dog.

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From Snow and Rock, from Chaos: Poems 1965-1972 more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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For You more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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Danvis Tales more books like this

by Rowland E Robinson, United States (Editor), Hayden Carruth (Introduction by)

From their initial publication in 1887 until fading from the popular consciousness in the 1930s, Rowland Robinson's enormously popular stories were a staple of Vermont households and classrooms. His tales were treasured as honest and accurate portraits of the life, times, and speech of pre-Civil War Vermont. This Hardscrabble edition of Danvis ...

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Doctor Jazz more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Much of the emotional intensity of this volume by the 1996 National Book Award-winner issues from a long poem about the death of his daughter.

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The Sleeping Beauty more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

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Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward.. more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

This collection from the noted poet offers far more than a uniquely long title. Carruth, long regarded as a master of form and rhythm continues his examination into some of the catastrophes of American living.

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Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself

by Judson Pitcher, Hayden Carruth (Editor), Clifford Carleton (Illustrator)

Including An Accurate Account Of His Numerous Adventures And The Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes From Death Now First Printed In Full.

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The voyage of the Rattletrap more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Perhaps we were pretty big boys - Jack and I. In fact, I'm afraid we were so big that we haven't grown much since. But Ollie was a boy, anyhow; he couldn't have been more than a dozen years old, and we looked upon him as being a very small boy indeed; though when folks saw us starting off, some of them seemed to think that we were as boyish as he, ...

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Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews more books like this

by Hayden Carruth

Collects essays and reviews by one of America's foremost poets, essayists, and jazz aficionados

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