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Questions of Possibility
Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form
2004
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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...
Rhyme's Challenge
Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
2014
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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...
American Poetry
A Very Short Introduction
- Series -
- Very Short Introductions
2021
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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...
- Translated by
- David Rowe-Caplan
- Book 1 -
- Scum's Wish
2016
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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.
American Poetry
A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by
- Amir Abdullah
Unabridged
3 hours 49 min
2022
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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...
- Translated by
- David Rowe-Caplan
- Book 2 -
- Scum's Wish
2017
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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?
Myth of the Rational Voter, The
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
Unabridged
8 hours 44 min
2010
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The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening audiobook. Caplan, a self-described libertarian/anarchist, argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and ag...
- Translated by
- David Rowe-Caplan
- Book 6 -
- Scum's Wish
2018
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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.
- Translated by
- David Rowe-Caplan
- Book 8 -
- Scum's Wish
2018
EN
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...?
SELinux by Example
Using Security Enhanced Linux
2006
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SELinux: Bring World-Class Security to Any Linux Environment!SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it’s easier than ever to take advantageof its benefits.SELinux by Example is the first complete, ha...
- Translated by
- David Rowe-Caplan
- Book 3 -
- Scum's Wish
2017
EN
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?
A Stone for Andrew Dunphy
Narrative Obituary Verse and Song in Northern Cape Breton
2018
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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...