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Twelve Moons
by Mary Oliver
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In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. these vibrant, magical... ( read more)
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Harold Pinter: Collected Poems and Prose
by Harold Pinter
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An essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems,... ( read more)
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Cawdor and Medea
by Robinson Jeffers
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Their combined genius made the play one of the outstanding successes of the 1940s. In Medea, Jeffers relentlessly drove toward what Ralph Waldo Emerson had called 'the proper tragic element' - terror.... ( read more)
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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World
by Lawren Ferlinghetti
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Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... ( read more)
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In the Next Galaxy
by Ruth Stone
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Ruth Stone has rightly been called America's Akhmatova, and she is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she writes with crackling intelligence, interrogating history from the vantage point of an aging and... ( read more)
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C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped -- and continues to inform -- his raw, incisive voice. In C-Train... ( read more)
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Blackbird and Wolf: Poems
by Henri Cole
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I don’t want words to sever me from reality. I don’t want to need them. I want nothing to reveal feeling but feeling—as in freedom, or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond, or the sound of water poured in a bowl. —from “... ( read more)
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Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Sylvia Plath
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A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional... ( read more)
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The Poems of St. John of the Cross
by John Of The Cross
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San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the... ( read more)
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The Vixen: Poems
by W S Merwin
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This major collection, by a major American poet who has been awarded the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art, is concerned with the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France. "Merwin writes," J.D.... ( read more)
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Under the Moon
by William B Yeats
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While working on a facsimile edition and transcription of W. B. Yeats's surviving early manuscripts, renowned Yeats scholar George Bornstein made a thrilling literary discovery: thirty-eight unpublished poems written between the poet's late teens and... ( read more)
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New Directions Paperbook #0688: The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
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In the annals of literature, few volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of 'The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs dur Mal) by Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's... ( read more)
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Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford
by Judith Kitchen
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An excellent introduction for readers coming to Stafford for the first time and a valuable overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his poetry, this book offers the best single guide to one of the most respected and celebrated... ( read more)
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Dylan Thomas: A New Life
by Andrew Lycett
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In this riveting new account of the life of one of the most celebrated and contradictory figures of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Andrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around Dylan Thomas.
When he died, in... ( read more)
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Anabasis
by Saint John Perse
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This internationally famous poem by the 1960 Nobel laureate was introduced to English-language readers in this translation by T. S. Eliot. In this definitive edition, French and English texts appear on facing pages. Preface by T. S. Eliot.... ( read more)
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Complete Poetry
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written--poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost... ( read more)
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Hotel Lautreamont
by John Ashberry
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Critics, scholars, students, and other readers of contemporary poetry have long appreciated Ashbery's uncanny mastery of the cadence and lyricism of colloquial speech, but they have been less sensitive to the equally important influences in his work of... ( read more)
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Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?: Poems
by Antwone Quenton Fisher
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With the publication of Finding Fish,his memoir of a childhood spent in foster homes in and around Cleveland, Antwone Fisher shared with the world his story of perseverance, determination, and courage. And he also showed that within him beat the heart of... ( read more)
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A Wild Perfection
by James Arlington Wright
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The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words."There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to... ( read more)
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American Dreams
by Sapphire
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In the tradition of Alice Walker, an electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose. "Stunning . . . . One of the strongest debut collections of the... ( read more)
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