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	NEW POEMS, BIOS & ESSAYS

	Poems of the American Revolution Carpe Diem: Seize the Day Poems About Summer Robert Louis Stevenson: bio Poems about Flowers Jorie Graham: audio & interview Poems About Poetry: Ars Poetica ABCs: Rock & Roll and Poetry Alexander Pope: bio and poems Lord Byron: bio and epic excerpts Notes on Ekphrasis by Alfred Corn Mary Jo Bang in Conversation


	THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

	Spotlight Poet Mona Van Duyn Born in Iowa in 1921, Mona Van Duyn is the author of ten collections of poems, including To See, To Take, which received the National Book Award in 1971. Spotlight Poem Teaching the Ape to Write Poems by James Tate They didn't have much trouble / teaching the ape to write poems: / first they strapped him into the chair... Spotlight Audio The Pulley by George Herbert read by Carl Phillips Spotlight Essay Poems for the Clothesline From ready-to-wear to haute couture, poetry addresses the coat, the jacket, the shoe and other loved articles we keep closest to us.


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	O Woolly City Tupelo Press by Priscilla Sneff David Baker describes Sneff as "an old troubadour poet brandishing the wand of a postmodern trickster, a mixer of syntax and matter, self-conscious song and wild ceremony." This is a bold and mature first book. Buy the book > Buy locally at BookSense >

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