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Product Description: Achieving Coherence in District Improvement focuses on a problem of practice faced by educational leaders across the nation: how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools. The book is based on a study of five large urban districts that have demonstrated improvement in student achievement...read more

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9781612508122 | Harvard Educational Pub Group, June 16, 2015, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Achieving Coherence in District Improvement focuses on a problem of practice faced by educational leaders across the nation: how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools.

Paperback:

9781612508115 | Harvard Educational Pub Group, June 16, 2015, cover price $35.00
9780425184004, titled "Counterfire" | Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $5.99 | also contains Counterfire | About this edition: When a group of Palestinian extremists seizes control of a stray nuclear warhead and threatens to detonate it in the middle of London's harbor, SEAL Team Seven is called in to stop the terrorist actions before it is too late.

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Product Description: True-Love is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman’s long service to poetry in the interests of humanity.  Poetry’s singular mission is to bind love and truth together—love that desires the beloved’s continued life, knotted with the truth of life’s contingency—to help make us more present to each other...read more

Hardcover:

9780226309736 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2009), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: True-Love is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman’s long service to poetry in the interests of humanity.

Paperback:

9780226309743 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2009), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: True-Love is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman’s long service to poetry in the interests of humanity.

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Product Description: A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom). Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death...read more

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9780811217118 | New Directions, December 30, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom).

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Product Description: Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of means -- part almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic drama -- from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heard -- Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780811215220 | New Directions, September 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time.

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Presents a collection of poems that focus on the themes of compassion, travel, and loneliness. (view table of contents)

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9780811214643 | New Directions, May 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems that focus on the themes of compassion, travel, and loneliness.

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Product Description: Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the "Long Schoolroom" of poetic principle--where he eventually learned to reconsider the notion that poetry was cultural work of the kind that contributed unambiguously to the peace of the world...read more

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9780472096374 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $64.50 | About this edition: Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry.

Paperback:

9780472066377 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry.

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Product Description: The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself - and in this way, the world. He begins with creation (The Great Work Farm Elegy), recalls the romantic quest of youth (The Philosopher's Window), returns to reality (The Snowfall and Whoever Builds)...read more

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9780811213004 | New Directions, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself - and in this way, the world.

The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise " Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry." This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion―across generations―of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure."

Hardcover:

9780801842429 | Rev exp su edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1992), cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9780801842436 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise " Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry.

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Book by Grossman, Allen R.

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9780811211840 | New Directions, October 1, 1991, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780811211772, titled "Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected" | New Directions, October 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Grossman, Allen R.

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A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view

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9780811209762 | New Directions, June 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view

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Poems discuss illusion and reality, the nature of time, and the meaning of death

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9780811208352 | New Directions, May 1, 1982, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Poems discuss illusion and reality, the nature of time, and the meaning of death

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