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David Caplan

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicu...

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David Caplan

Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet, this study advances a new understanding of contemporary American poetry. Rather than pitting "closed" verse against "open" an...

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David Caplan

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Very Short Introductions

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness...

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

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Scum's Wish

Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else.

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David Caplan

Narrated by

Amir Abdullah

With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry welcomes techniques, styles, and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. The force o...

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 2 -

Scum's Wish

Mugi and Hanabi are in a relationship in spite of (and because) they're in love with other people. As this deception continues, are they going to hurt the ones they care for most?

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Mengo Yokoyari

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 6 -

Scum's Wish

Hanabi has decided to confess. Mugi is confronted with Moka's feelings. Ebato still pines after Hanabi. They want to go forward, they want to stop, they want it all to end...or do they? It's not uncommon to be a coward when it comes to love.

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 8 -

Scum's Wish

Can one person change another...? When someone says it's impossible, is that only because they failed...? But people never stay the same, no matter how much you may love them the way they are. As new lives open up for those around them, Hanabi and Mugi must pick up the pieces of their shattered hopes. When they finally find a way to walk forward, will it be hand in hand or...?

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 3 -

Scum's Wish

Mugi and Hanabi's faux relationship continues, with the players secure in the knowledge that their true feelings lie elsewhere. When the objects of their affections begin crafting a new story, though, what will be the fallout?

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 5 -

Scum's Wish

Twisted love causes problems. Hanabi and Mugi are supposed to be dating, but Ebato's love confession has confused Hanabi. Moka's love for Mugi is still unrequited, a painful thorn hiding beneath the blossoms of love. As all around them people are changing their shape, will their feelings change also...?

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Ronald David Caplan

Ronald Caplan’s account of his search for song and obituary poetry and the tools for community survival in northern Cape Breton, as he learned about the in-home singing tradition and the community’s extraordinary devotion to the poet Andrew Dunphy—a person who might in other places have been an outcast. A hundred years before, Dunphy roamed northern Cape Breton, sharing the news, nursing the sick, often caring for small children. And he wrote magnificent obituary poems that, with great res...

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Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman

Translated by

David Rowe-Caplan

Book 4 -

Scum's Wish

After seeing Akane's true self, Hanabi makes a decision. For want of the one she loves, a convenient substitute presents a warmth she cannot resist. Love and desire intertwine, and the red string of fate is lost in the tangle...