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Poet Be Like God
by Lewis Ellingham
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Unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer (1925-1965)--a key figure in San Francisco's gay cultural scene--was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as social outcast. Virtually unrecognized when... ( read more)
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Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
by Aliki Barnstone
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A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This... ( read more)
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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
by Galway Kinnell
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A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.... ( read more)
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Blizzard of One: Poems
by Mark Strand
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Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of... ( read more)
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Harvest Book)
by T S Eliot
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An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliot's intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. " Enough ferocious... ( read more)
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Claude Mckay
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Jamaican-American poet Claude McKay (1889–1948) came to the U.S. in 1912 and became an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. This inexpensive edition includes a representative sample of his Jamaican dialect verse, but concentrates on poems... ( read more)
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The Art of Drowning (Pitt Poetry)
by Billy Collins
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Billy Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful." Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." The New York Times calls him simply "the... ( read more)
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Unlock
by Dao Bei
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Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.<P>Unlock presents forty-nine new... ( read more)
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Poets for the Millennium #4: Jose Lezama Lima: Selections
by Jose Lezama Lima
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Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Jose Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba... ( read more)
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The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
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"I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... ( read more)
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Book of Images Bilingual Edition
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are... ( read more)
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The Book of Gods and Devils
by Charles Simic
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Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as “one of the truly imaginative writers of our time” by the Los Angeles Times.... ( read more)
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Invasions: New Poems (Ivan R. Dee Paperback Original)
by Adam Kirsch
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In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst... ( read more)
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Haiku
by Peter (edt) Washington
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Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now... ( read more)
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The Angel of History
by Carolyn Forche
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Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forché & #39; s ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the... ( read more)
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Sweet Machine: Poems
by Mark Doty
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From the award-winning author of "Heaven's Coast, Atlantis", and "My Alexandria" comes an intensely lyrical, passionate, and joyful collection of poems. This assemblage visualizes the body as "the sweet machine", a vibrant, sensual, and living thing.... ( read more)
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School of the Arts: Poems
by Mark Doty
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The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. The world constantly renews itself, and the new brings both possibility and erasure. Given the limits of... ( read more)
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District and Circle: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the... ( read more)
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Steles, Volume 1
by Victor Segalen
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First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page... ( read more)
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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
by William C Williams
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This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures From Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of... ( read more)
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