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Howl Original Draft Facsimile Transcript
by Allen Ginsberg
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Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howlis the poet's own re-creation of... ( read more)
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Horses and the Human Soul
by Judith Barrington
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Praise for History and Geography: "Barrington's history, like Lowell's, is intensely personal; her geography, like Bishop's, extracts the familiar from the exotic and the exotic from the familiar."-The Nation "She engages wittily with cultural... ( read more)
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You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski
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Poems deal with solitude, silence, artists, death, aging, friends, hard times, gambling, music, and genius.... ( read more)
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Archipelago
by Arthur Sze
About the Author
Arthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, and a corresponding editor for Manoa. He lives in Santa Fe, New... ( read more)
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West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
by Mary Oliver
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'The New York Times has called Oliver\'s poems \"thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.\" In this stunning collection of forty poems she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform... ( read more)
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Catbird's Song
by Richard Wilbur
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The Catbird's Song is a selection of prose pieces, on a variety of topics, by one of the most distinguished poets and translators of our times, Richard Wilbur. These lectures, letters, reviews, addresses, prefaces, and interviews-what Wilbur calls the... ( read more)
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Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence
by Luis Poirot
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Readers enter a magical world through the delightful poetry of Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda and Luis Poirot's evocative photographs of Neruda's whimsical surroundings and possessions.... ( read more)
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Grieving Shias
by Raza Ali Hasan
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American English his adopted language, at home in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syracuse, N. Y., Raza Ali Hasan deals with material unavailable to any other poet I know writing in English. Without rank, without comrades, he has fought battles of the mind and... ( read more)
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Only Dreaming Sky: Poems
by Jack Hirschman
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"Poetry is really a weapon. It's a spiritualweapon for the transformation of the world. And, of course, all my poems arelove poems. The nicest thing in the world is to propagandize for love."-JackHirschmanÂ"Jack is a very American voice. He... ( read more)
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Even in Quiet Places
by William Stafford
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Stafford's 90 poems show his understanding of freedom, social justice and ways to establish harmony in life.... ( read more)
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The Long Meadow
by Vijay Seshadri
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The extraordinary second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James
Laughlin award of The Academy of American Poets
"We hold it against you that you survived."
"People better than you are dead, "
"but you still punch the clock."... ( read more)
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Five Decades, Poems 1925-1970
by Pablo Neruda
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This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems... ( read more)
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Appalachia
by Charles Wright
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Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies... ( read more)
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Just Breathe Normally (American Lives)
by Peggy Shumaker
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Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions of... ( read more)
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop and Connected Writings
by Saul Williams
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From "astonishing poet" ("The Washington Post") Saul Williams comes a provocative look at the galvanizing force of hip hop. Destined to become one of the most talked-about books of the season, "The Dead Emcee Scrolls" is a darkly humorous, electrifying... ( read more)
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Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish
by Seamus Heaney
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Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not... ( read more)
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The Poems of Dylan Thomas with CD (Audio)
by Dylan Thomas
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System requirements: CD-ROM drive.
Includes bibliographical references and index.... ( read more)
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Homage to Robert Frost
by Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott--three Nobel laureates and threeof our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologiesthat surround one of America's most famous and beloved deceased poets--RobertFrost.... ( read more)
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Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by
by Kevin Young
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Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in Jelly Roll with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving us a film noir in verse. Black Maria — the title is a slang term for a police van as well as a hearse — is a twisting... ( read more)
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The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Carl Sandburg
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The definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. " A marvelous prosody, a perfect ear for the beautiful potentials of common speech, something he learned from folk song, but mostly he learned from just listening" (Kenneth Rexroth).... ( read more)
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