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American poetry is a vast and perplexing literature, valuing tradition as much as novelty. Some have claimed that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. Others point out that American poetry welcomes techniques, styles, and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. In this introduction to American poetry, David Caplan pays close attention to American poets' verse forms, meters, and styles. Examples range ...

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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 c...

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 c...

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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology.

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Poetic FormDavid Caplan, Ohio Wesleyan University0-321-19820-4Written with humor, this guide aims to convey the pleasures of poetry-a sestina's playful delight, an epigram's barbed wit, a haiku's deceptive simplicity-and the joy of exploring poetic forms. Covering a wider range of forms in greater detail and with more poetic examples than similar guides, Poetic Form provides a clear, compact, and entertaining introduction to the history, struc...

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These fifteen contributions by well-known linguists, psychologists, and neuroscientists explore the new concepts and themes that extend and revise previously held ideas about the biology of cognition.

An original collection comprising a mixture of over 200 humorous verses and limericks. Funny sexual exploits and amusing tales of woe, you have to read this book if you really want to know !

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology.

Caplan's lyrics seek to understand the world in its fullness, both the suffering that history imposes on individual experience and the sacredness that underpins it. This is a meditation on love and faith built out of language as spare and direct as prayer. Some poems deal with issues of statehood and Jewish identity, increasingly the poems grapple with the demands of traditional Jewish practice, moving from a Christianized American landscape t...