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The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

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by: Charles Baudelaire

April 17, 2008
The poet needs no introduction. However, the translation is, as another reviewer stated, apalling. The iambic pentameter/alexandrine dilemma has led to some turgid translations, with padding words added in for the sake of metre.

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I'll Stand by You : The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland

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by: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland

June 04, 1998
The poet needs no introduction. However, the translation is, as another reviewer stated, apalling. The iambic pentameter/alexandrine dilemma has led to some turgid translations, with padding words added in for the sake of metre.

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Veiled Sentiments: Updated with a New Preface: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society: Updated with a New Preface

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by: L AbuLughod

March 07, 2000
Abu-Lughod looks at the role poetry plays in the lives of women in Bedouin society, as an alternative to the poetic tradition of the men and a way to communicate and validate experiences outside the morality imposed by the male dominated culture. What's most fascinating for me as a student of poetry is the implicit definition of poetry that Abu-Lughod gives us along the way--a poetry defined, as Sir Philip Sidney once argued, not by its form but by the role it plays in the culture.

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An Emergence of Green

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by: Katherine V. Forrest

2005-08
I came across this book by accident. Wow it was a fab find!
I felt that Katherine had a wonderful way in describing the charactors, Val and Caroline. I was totally gripped from the start. I felt it was written in a way of admiration of a person who finally realised want she felt and wanted. This person not caring what was around them, but pure connection.

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

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by: Audre Lorde

1984-05
I came across this book by accident. Wow it was a fab find!
I felt that Katherine had a wonderful way in describing the charactors, Val and Caroline. I was totally gripped from the start. I felt it was written in a way of admiration of a person who finally realised want she felt and wanted. This person not caring what was around them, but pure connection.

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My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems

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from: Ballantine Books Inc.

February 01, 2000
I came across this book by accident. Wow it was a fab find!
I felt that Katherine had a wonderful way in describing the charactors, Val and Caroline. I was totally gripped from the start. I felt it was written in a way of admiration of a person who finally realised want she felt and wanted. This person not caring what was around them, but pure connection.

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World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library Classics)

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by: Stephen Spender

February 08, 2001
I came across this book by accident. Wow it was a fab find!
I felt that Katherine had a wonderful way in describing the charactors, Val and Caroline. I was totally gripped from the start. I felt it was written in a way of admiration of a person who finally realised want she felt and wanted. This person not caring what was around them, but pure connection.

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Godlike

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by: Richard Hell

July 01, 2005
I came across this book by accident. Wow it was a fab find!
I felt that Katherine had a wonderful way in describing the charactors, Val and Caroline. I was totally gripped from the start. I felt it was written in a way of admiration of a person who finally realised want she felt and wanted. This person not caring what was around them, but pure connection.

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Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara

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by: Joe Lesueur

April 01, 2003
Joe LeSuer was Frank O'Hara's lover for some time of Frank's short life. And when he wasn't being his lover, he was being his flat-mate. However, LeSeur was always Frank O'Hara's friend and, perhaps most importantly, reader of his poems.

As a University student, I made the mistake of studying O'Hara's poetry for my final dissertation. It soon becomes obvious if you love O'Hara's writing, that the poetry is not there to study. It's there to read, enjoy, speak aloud and give to people with the confidence that they too will love O'Hara. It's the poetry of New York City in the 50s, black and white films, jazz, classical music, Coca Cola and, most importantly, art. After writing the dissertation, I felt I'd exhausted what is supposed to be an inexhaustable ... Read More:

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A Poet Could Not But be Gay: Some Legends of My Lost Youth

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by: James Kirkup

June 13, 1991
Joe LeSuer was Frank O'Hara's lover for some time of Frank's short life. And when he wasn't being his lover, he was being his flat-mate. However, LeSeur was always Frank O'Hara's friend and, perhaps most importantly, reader of his poems.

As a University student, I made the mistake of studying O'Hara's poetry for my final dissertation. It soon becomes obvious if you love O'Hara's writing, that the poetry is not there to study. It's there to read, enjoy, speak aloud and give to people with the confidence that they too will love O'Hara. It's the poetry of New York City in the 50s, black and white films, jazz, classical music, Coca Cola and, most importantly, art. After writing the dissertation, I felt I'd exhausted what is supposed to be an inexhaustable ... Read More: