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Poets & Poetry in Fiction |
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Song of a captive bird : a novel
by Jasmin Darznik
A first novel by the best-selling author of The Good Daughter reimagines the life of rebel poet Forugh Farrokzhad, who is depicted as a passionate young writer in search of freedom and independence from the restrictions imposed on women in mid-20th-century Iran.
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The Wildes : a novel in five acts
by Louis Bayard
A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
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Wintering : a novel of Sylvia Plath
by Kate Moses
A fictional account of the last months of Sylvia Plath's life and the painful creation of her Ariel poems finds her moving with her two children to London after divorcing Ted Hughes, who is saddened by her latest writings and who works to remind her about happier times.
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Amherst
by William Nicholson
An aspiring screenplay writer travels to Amherst to research the illicit affair between a college faculty wife and the brother of Emily Dickinson, an effort that leads to the writer's own affair with her married host.
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Pym : a novel
by Mat Johnson
A comic reimagining of America's racial history by a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-winning writer follows a book collector's enslavement by giant Antarctic ice creatures after he learns that Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished novel is actually a true story.
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Burning bright
by Tracy Chevalier
Poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake's, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.
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The lost dresses of Italy : a novel
by M. A. McLaughlin
Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. But when she arrives, she discovers an unsupportive but handsome museum owner, a superstitious local community, and a mysterious letter with a scribbled warning hidden among the dresses. Verona, 1864. Christina Rossetti finds a gift her father once gave her: a small ornate box with the three Muses carved into the lid. When she stumbles across a secret compartment, Christina finds a letter from her father with an urgent and personal request.
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