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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne Sexton, Edwidge Danticat, Joseph M. Williams, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Lucinda Roy, Fred D'aguiar, Eileen Albrizio, Cris Cheek, Alan Wearne, Demetria Royals, Louis George Alexander, Sven Birkerts, Rosellen Brown, Azi, Judy Waite, Gina B. Nahai. Excerpt:Alan Wearne (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne . He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott . After publishing two collections of poetry, he wrote a verse novel , The Nightmarkets , published in 1986 which won the Banjo Award and was adapted for performance. His next book in the same genre, The Lovemakers , won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award . The first half of the novel was published by Penguin , and its second by the ABC in 2004 as The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing and co-won The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Colin Roderick Award and the H. T. Priestly Medal. Despite this critical success neither book was promoted properly and both volumes ended up being pulped. Shearsman Press in the UK has since republished the book in a single volume. Alan Wearne's latest work, "The Australian Popular Songbook" was published in 2008 by Giramondo Publishing. He currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong . Books Websites (URLs online) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anne Sexton Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts ) was an influential American poet and writer known for her highly personal, confessional poetry . She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her long battle with depression . After repeated attempts, ... ... Read more

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Poems and stories by Sandra Hochman, Erica Jong, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, Eldridge Cleaver, Joan Didion, Evan Connell, Germaine Greer, Sally Kempton, Lillian Hellman, Gloria Steinem, Joyce Carol Oates, Eric Erikson, Edna O'Brien and Others. ... Read more