Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
by Makoto Ueda


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Previously neglected by scholars as "popular literature," the study of senryu--a 17-syllable verse form--provides valuable insight into the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Japanese townspeople. This collection of 400 humorous and often satirical poems... (read more)

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Collected Poems 1947-1980
by Allen Ginsberg


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Author's Preface, Reader's Manual Arrangement of Text Herein author has assembled all his poetry books published to date rearranged in straight chronological order to compose an autobiography. Collected Poems includes seven volumes published in City... (read more)

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Come on In!: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski


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The fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet. Recent features in The New Yorker and on NPR's "Morning Edition" have proven that interest in Bukowski and his works... (read more)

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Bandanna
by Paul Muldoon


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Following his highly-praised Shining Brow, which was also written as an opera libretto for the American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Paul Muldoon's Bandanna takes us into very different territory. Its action is set in a small town on the Mexican border; it... (read more)

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Essential Poets #23: Essential Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson


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An extraordinary tribute to one remarkable writer and woman from another.... (read more)

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Down in My Heart (Northwest Reprints)
by William Stafford


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From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors in Arkansas and California for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army.As a pacifist, he worked on conservation projects for Civilian Public Service, an... (read more)

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She
by Saul Williams


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Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" "(Esquire)," Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting... (read more)

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The Labyrinth of Solitude
by Octavio Paz


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Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more)

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The Best American Poetry (Best American Poetry)
by David Lehman


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Celebrated poet McHugh and renowned editor Lehman present the 20th edition of the popular and comprehensive "Best American Poetry" series.... (read more)

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Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
by Edward Hirsch


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From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken. In the words of editor Edward Hirsch,... (read more)

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Love: Ten Poems
by Pablo Neruda


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The ten love poems collected here were each intoned in the movie The Postman. "Ode to the Sea" and "Ode to a Beautiful Nude" are here, among eight others.... (read more)

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Two Haloed Mourners
by Bernadette Mayer


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As its title would suggest, Two Haloed Mourners is a work marked by a sometimes amorphous, sometimes definite sense of spirituality, a spirituality immanent to every stray thought and object. Loss and regret also figure prominently here, not as features... (read more)

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Day by Day
by Robert Lowell


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The last book published before the poet's death, "Day by Day" was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.<BR>... (read more)

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project)
by Gwendolyn Brooks


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Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks took her place as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century, distilling modernist style through the sounds and shapes of a variety of... (read more)

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Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Matsuo Basho


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Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by... (read more)

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Where Shall I Wander: New Poems
by John Ashbery


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<p>You meant more than life to me. I lived<br /> through you not knowing, not knowing I<br /> was living.<br /> I learned that you called for me. I came to<br /> where you were living, up a stair. There<br /> was no... (read more)

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Facing the River
by Czeslaw Milosz


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A poet of immense moral authority, Milosz writes with the amazing clarity that issues from a precise vision. In these later poems, the poems of older age, he takes a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the 20th century; yet despite the... (read more)

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Collected Poems 1947-1997
by Allen Ginsberg


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Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry,... (read more)

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