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by Jimmy Santiago Baca  Publisher Comments Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Elizabeth Bishop Publisher Comments Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Floyd Skloot 
Powells.com Staff Pick Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and technically brilliant. He writes with equal and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saul Williams Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments 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) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments A must-have collection for fans of Garrison Keillor and all lovers of... good poems. Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Plath
Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by e e cummings Publisher Comments /KENNEDY This is the first selection from the poems of e.e. cummings to be published since 1959, five years before the poet's death. The 156 poems selected by cummings' biographer are arranged in twelve sections, each preceded by an illustration by... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments 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) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maya Angelou
Publisher Comments The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ." . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments 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) List Price $39.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Stafford
Powells.com Staff Pick I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Sexton Publisher Comments These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Frost Publisher Comments A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Sappho And Barnard Publisher Comments The best translation of Sappho's work available, now with a beautiful new package.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by August Kleinzahler Publisher Comments The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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