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Ballistics: Poems
by Billy Collins
Powells.com Staff Pick
In poem after poem, Collins's trademark honesty, insight, and playfulness shine through.
Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com... ( read more)
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The Gift
by Hafiz And Ladinsky
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More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest... ( read more)
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
by Billy Collins
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"High, most encouraging tidings" — that is how Billy
Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet,
describes the music in his poem about the gospel
singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same
phrase applies, just as joyfully... ( read more)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that... ( read more)
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Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color... ( 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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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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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
Powells.com Staff Pick
"Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else,
the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and
bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com... ( read more)
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Robert Frost: Selected Poems
by Robert Frost
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John F. Kennedy said of Robert Frost: "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Frost created a new poetic... ( read more)
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New
by Denis Johnson
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From the award-winning poet and novelist--a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.... ( read more)
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Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
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From one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time comes this eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following Cohens highly acclaimed 1984 title "Book of Mercy."... ( read more)
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Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works (Perennial Classics)
by Arthur Rimbaud
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The Orphans' New YearThe room is full of shadows; vaguely heard, The soft, sad whispers of two tiny babes. Their faces, heavy still with sleep, peck out Through long white curtains that shake and swirl ... -Outside, the shivering birds hop near; Their... ( read more)
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
by Mary Oliver
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From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be. In The... ( read more)
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The Niagara River (Grove Press Poetry Series)
by Kay Ryan
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Bafflingly effective, this new collection of poetry from the winner of the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize seems too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Intense and relaxed, buoyant and rueful, the singular music of Kay Ryan's poetry appeals to a wide... ( 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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Selected Poems and Four Plays
by William B Yeats
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Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeasts's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of... ( read more)
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Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... ( read more)
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Gitanjali : Offerings From the Heart (13 Edition)
by Rabindranath Tagore
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An illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This... ( read more)
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The Seven Ages
by Louise Gluck
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Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance.She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal... ( read more)
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Run with the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, a
by Charles Bukowski
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"And the great white horses come up & lick the frost of the dream" The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under... ( read more)
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