Concordia University
ENGL 630: Image and Object: The Metaphysics of Free Verse
Prof. Nathan Brown
This course book package includes all required books for ENGL 630 for the Fall 2026 semester.
Buying the full package ensures you have every text you need from the start of the term.
This package includes the following titles
Personae: The Shorter Poems, Ezra Pound
Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
Cane, Jean Toomer
Collected Works, Lorine Niedecker
New Collected Poems, George Oppen
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Mina Loy
The Arrivants, Kamau Brathwaite
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This collection gathers Ezra Pound's early and influential short poems, showcasing the Imagist precision that shaped modernist poetry.
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, “By the road to the contagious hospital,” and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Now, almost 90 years since its first publication, New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact Press edition, featuring a new introduction by C. D. Wright.
Jean Toomer's experimental work blends poetry, prose, and drama to portray Black life in the rural South and urban North during the Harlem Renaissance.
This volume gathers Lorine Niedecker's spare, Objectivist-influenced poetry, rooted in her rural Wisconsin surroundings.
George Oppen’s New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet’s books published in his lifetime (1908–84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Press in the 1930s, has become one of America’s most admired poets. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Of Being Numerous, which The New Yorker recently said is “unmatched by any book of American poetry since.” The New Collected Poems is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego, who also writes an introduction about the poet’s life and work and supplies generous notes that will give interested readers an understanding of the background of the individual books as well as keys to references in the poems. The award-winning essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger offers a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, “Oppen Then.” This newly revised paperback edition also includes a generous CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry collections.
Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists, and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has rescued the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included all of the futurist and feminist satires, poems from Loy's Paris and New York periods, and the complete cycle of "Love Songs," as well as previously unknown texts and detailed notes.
Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite’s early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants—containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)—a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet living in the New World. Through the tension of regional dialect, musical rhythms, historical flashbacks, and excursions to Europe, New York, and Africa, Brathwaite interweaves the past and present of his Caribbean homeland—its natural beauty, its violent history, and the values that sustain its people—into a vigorous and unforgettable poetic work.