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Collected Poems of Frank O'hara (71 Edition) Collected Poems of Frank O'hara (71 Edition)
by Frank Ohara

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Available for the first time in paperback, "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at... (read more)

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Selected Poems Selected Poems
by Mark Strand

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In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.... (read more)

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The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
by Gary Snyder

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The Real Work is the second volume of Gary Snyder's prose to be published by New Directions. Where his earlier 'Earth House Hold' (1969) heralded the tribalism of the 'coming revolution, ' the interviews in 'The Real Work' focus on the living out of that... (read more)

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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
by Michael Ondaatje

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The Cinnamon Peeler brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from Michael Ondaatje's collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and... (read more)

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The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford
by William Stafford

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The Darkness around Us Is Deep marks an important event in American literary history, namely, publication of the selected poems of William Stafford. As Robert Bly says in his introduction, "William Stafford is a master. He belongs to that category of... (read more)

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover Thrift Editions) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Samuel Ta Coleridge

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Notes from the Divided Country: Poems Notes from the Divided Country: Poems
by Suji Kwock Kim

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Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it... (read more)

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Tiepolo's Hound Tiepolo's Hound
by Derek Walcott

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From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,paused on a step of this couplet, I have never foundits image again, a... (read more)

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They Lift Their Wings to Cry They Lift Their Wings to Cry
by Brooks Haxton

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Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of... (read more)

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A Part of Speech A Part of Speech
by Joseph Brodsky

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"A Part of Speech" contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.<BR>... (read more)

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New Directions Paperbook #408: Poems from the Book of Hours: Das Stundenbuch New Directions Paperbook #408: Poems from the Book of Hours: Das Stundenbuch
by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The God they celebrate is not the Creator of the universe, but seems rather the creation of humanity: the artists. Rewarding alike for the richness of their harmonies and the suggestiveness of their imagery, these lyrics allow of interpretations... (read more)

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The Museum of Natural History The Museum of Natural History
by Julie Gamberg

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Julie Gamberg's award-winning book is a collection with edges, a repository of assertions that rise like searing iconic objects against an imaginative landscape. Although it is her first, this stunning volume has the rich texture and thematic subtlety of... (read more)

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American Scream: & Palindrome Apocalypse American Scream: & Palindrome Apocalypse
by Dubravka O Tolic

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What is America? For renowned Croatian poet Dubravka Oraic Tolic, it is "what is born from our dreams without our knowing."As Columbus'dream of reaching India was interrupted by the discovery of a new land, we too discover unexpected lands in pursuit of... (read more)

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Complete Verse Definitive Edition Complete Verse Definitive Edition
by Rudyard Kipling

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Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages. Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works. This is the only complete collection of Kipling's... (read more)

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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture) Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture)
by Pablo Neruda

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"Neruda's odes, coming as they did after the lyric intensity of" Residencia en la tierra" and the epic sweep of "Canto general," carved out a new field for him and for Latin American poetry. . . . The "Odas elementales" have found a sensitive, sensible... (read more)

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The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan
by Pablo Neruda

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The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems. Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il... (read more)

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In the Middle Distance In the Middle Distance
by Linda Gregg

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A new and resplendent collection by Linda Gregg, whose poems “have the elegance of Greek statuary and the good-humored poise of haiku” (Poetry) I finally fell in love with all of it: dirt, silence, rock and far views. It’s strange that... (read more)

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Space Walk Space Walk
by Tom Sleigh

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Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imagination's limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our current American realities of empire, state violence... (read more)

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Elegy on Toy Piano Elegy on Toy Piano
by Dean Young

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In this book Young presents poems of varying tones and styles, emphasizing the nature of simultaneity and the power of wordplay.... (read more)

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Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth (Meditations) Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth (Meditations)
by Chris Highland

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Contains 60 passages from Whitman's lifelong endeavor, Leaves of Grass, paired with the words of a variety of historical and contemporary thinkers, philosophers, teachers, and spiritual leaders.... (read more)

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