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The Ghosts of Anne & Sylvia
by Jasmine Paul
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Both gritty and lyrical, The Ghosts of Anne & Sylvia is a winning collection of poetry that pays homage to the friendship and written work of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Amber LaParne and Jasmine Paul present a unique book that showcases poetry as... ( read more)
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Selected Poems and Translations: 1969-1991
by William Matthews
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'\"The road is what the car drinks/traveling on its tongue of light/all the way home.\" With lines like these William Matthews has created a body of work that stands alone in American poetry. Witty, sophisticated, yet lucid, his poems bring the reader... ( read more)
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W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume 1: The Apprentice Mage
by R. F. Foster
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William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry and modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over fifty years, leading Irish... ( read more)
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Imperfect Thirst
by Galway Kinnell
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Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive... ( read more)
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The August Sleepwalker
by Dao Bei
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Among the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals in modern China, Bei Dao both reflects and criticizes the conflicts of the Cultural Revolution of the late sixties and seventies.... ( read more)
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Journey to the Lost City
by Jonathan Aaron
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Taking its title from the cult horror movie classic, Jonathan Aaron's third book, Journey to the Lost City, is a work of sharp wit, irony, and disarming tenderness. Cool, metaphysically quizzical, almost Eastern-European in sensibility, Aaron's poems are... ( read more)
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I'm Here Because I Lost My Way: Poems by Neil Shepard
by Neil Shepard
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Poetry. "In Neil Shepard's moving and delicate new collection, nature's quietly shimmering veil resonates with those few moments of true human grace any of us are allowed. These poems are filled with the same passion and deft humor we've come to expect... ( read more)
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The Perishing: Poems
by Sherod Santos
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This Collection's searing poems travel between the frozen moment of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. The poet tracks genocide's record from Tamerlane to Pol Pot, an exiled tyrant's return to the killing fields, and Penelope's embracing... ( read more)
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New California Poetry #19: Harm.
by Steve Willard
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"You'll want to stop right now and read this book. No day should be without its adamancy, its invention, its honesty. Its edge of defiance, mixed with triumph, operates like a spotlight on human possibility. Always veering just out of sense on a curve of... ( read more)
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Difficulties of a Bridegroom
by Ted Hughes
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The first collection of short fiction by England's Poet Laureate may be read as an accompaniment to Ted Hughes's poetry, or independently as an example of craft and linguistic vigor. Taken frmo forty years of occasional story writing, Ted Hughes's... ( read more)
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Depth Theology (Contemporary Poetry)
by Peter Oleary
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Winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition.... ( read more)
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Red Signature (National Poetry Series Books)
by Mary Leader
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"Mary Leader's book Red Signature is an astonishing gift. In it she cherishes, presents, gives back to everyone the brilliant common life that almost nobody but Mary Leader can see and make known. The poems are elegant, utterly without concealment and... ( read more)
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Scars (Pitt Poetry)
by Peter Meinke
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"There is a little of the Ancient Mariner in the tenacity and urgency with which Peter Meinke addresses his readers. These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and when they release us we are delighted, shaken, and considerably wiser". Ted... ( read more)
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No Other Life
by Gary Young
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No Other Life gathers in a single volume two earlier books by Gary Young, Days and the award-winning Braver Deeds, with the final book in his trilogy, If He Had. Utilizing "a radically brief prose poem that in its spare lucidity leaves after images... ( read more)
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Drift
by Mary Kinzie
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"The world is touched and stands forth," writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the... ( read more)
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Axe Handles: Poems
by Gary Snyder
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This book was Snyder's first collection of poetry after Turtle Island, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. The poems in Axe Handles reveal the roots of community in the family, and also explore the transmission of cultural values and... ( read more)
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Equations = Equals
by Joe Ross
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In Ross'seventh book of poetry, he explores the relationship of words-Middle to Excluded, Dizzy to Morality, Language to Stump, for -example-brilliantly revealing the processes of thought and the -associative relationships of everything to everything... ( read more)
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Surface Tension: Poems
by Elaine Equi
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Equi's succinct, witty, and innovative work has been widely published, appearing in the The New Yorker, Norton's Postmodern American Poetry, and four recent volumes of The Best American Poetry. A central figure in Chicago's poetics scene during the 70s... ( read more)
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Atlantis: Poems by
by Mark Doty
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The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.... ( read more)
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Tentmaking: Poems and Prose Paragraphs
by Coleman Barks
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This is a major new collection of original poems from the premiere translator of Rumi (his latest book, The Soul of Rumi, was published September 2001 by HarperSan Francisco). Along with translating Rumi for the last 25 years, Coleman has been writing... ( read more)
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