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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor 100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor
by Pablo Neruda

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Against the backdrop of Isla Negra - the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific - Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda sets these joyfully sensual poems in celebration of his love... (read more)

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The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
by Floyd Skloot

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In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, “shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature.” How such... (read more)

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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classic Poetry) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classic Poetry)
by John Milton

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The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Each work demonstrates Milton's genius for classicism, innovation... (read more)

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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
by Ginsberg And Snyder

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One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious... (read more)

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Granted Granted
by Mary Szybist

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Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love-particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting... (read more)

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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
by Maya Angelou

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For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.... (read more)

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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford

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Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and... (read more)

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Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why D Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why D
by Maya Angelou

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Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,  sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and  celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In  this moving volume of poetry, we hear the  multi-faceted... (read more)

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
by Langston Hughes

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With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves... (read more)

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Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions) Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Matsuo Basho

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Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by... (read more)

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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
by Mary Oliver

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From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be. In The... (read more)

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The Collected Poems The Collected Poems
by Wallace Stevens

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This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - "Harmonium" - "Ideas of Order" - "The Man With the Blue Guitar" - "Parts of the World" - "Transport Summer" - "The Auroras of Autumn... (read more)

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Come on In!: New Poems Come on In!: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski

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The fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet. Recent features in The New Yorker and on NPR's "Morning Edition" have proven that interest in Bukowski and his works... (read more)

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Four Quartets (Harvest Book) Four Quartets (Harvest Book)
by T. S Eliot

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The last major verse written by the Nobel laureate, including " Burnt Norton, " " East Coker, " " The Dry Salvages, " and " Little Gidding."... (read more)

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Howl 50TH Anniversary Edition Annotated Howl 50TH Anniversary Edition Annotated
by Allen Ginsberg

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First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated... (read more)

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Robert Frosts Poems Robert Frosts Poems
by Robert Frost

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Here in one volume are selected poems of Robert Frost, accompanied by an introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer. They make up an anthology that will bring you numberless hours of pleasure and joy.... (read more)

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Complete Poems (81 Edition) Complete Poems (81 Edition)
by Anne Sexton

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From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises her ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner--"Live or Die".... (read more)

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Danger on Peaks Danger on Peaks
by Gary Snyder

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In his first collection of new poems since Axe Handles (1983), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder shares 55 new poems and prose poems. As long-time readers will recognize, this collection is unique in Snyder's oeuvre, finding the poet experimenting... (read more)

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Embryoyo: New Poems Embryoyo: New Poems
by Dean Young

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People have often tried to pin down what it is that Dean Young does. He has been variously called a New Age surrealist, son of the New York School, a comically tragic poet who knows the pain at the heart of a joke, a lunatic, a stuffed bunny, and a fire... (read more)

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Questions about Angels Questions about Angels
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... (read more)

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