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City of Corners City of Corners
by John Godfrey

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"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi With an enemy like daylight who needs the psychology dime Hips... (read more)

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Figure Studies (Southern Messenger Poets) Figure Studies (Southern Messenger Poets)
by Claudia Emerson

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Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five poem lyric sequence called "All Girls School," offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they... (read more)

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Love: Ten Poems Love: Ten Poems
by Pablo Neruda

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The ten love poems collected here were each intoned in the movie The Postman. "Ode to the Sea" and "Ode to a Beautiful Nude" are here, among eight others.... (read more)

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Dylan Thomas the Biography New Edition Dylan Thomas the Biography New Edition
by Paul Ferris

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Mining new material, including personal letters from Thomas himself, Paul Ferris recounts the life of this tragic figure. "A hilarious, stocking, sad story . . . a brilliant book."--Kingsley Amis. of photos.... (read more)

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Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals (European Poetry Classics) Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals (European Poetry Classics)
by Heinrich Heine

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Although many of Heine's poems are deceptively simple on the surface, the multiple allusions, word plays, and shifts and breaks in diction and tone make them almost untranslatable. Arndt not only renders the meaning of the originals, but preserves the... (read more)

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Moments Equation Moments Equation
by Vern Rutsala

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This wonderful book of poetry, which was a 2005 National Book Award finalist, is filled with scintillating visions of life, home, work, and family expressed in accessible language through which the poet magnifies daily events into art. Vern Rutsala gives... (read more)

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Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell
by Paul Mariani

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National Book Award nominee Paul Mariani offers a passionate, highly readable biography of one of America's great poets. Using many of Robert Lowell's unpublished letters as well as interviews with his friends and relatives, Mariani captures the... (read more)

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For the Confederate Dead For the Confederate Dead
by Kevin Young

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The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from... (read more)

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The Evening Light The Evening Light
by Floyd Skloot

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Well-known in the Pacific Northwest for his diverse writing talents, Skloot has crafted another book that will be as highly praised as his others. The beautifully crafted poems in this collection probe the depths of extended illness, of love, of... (read more)

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Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems (Western Literature) Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems (Western Literature)
by Adrian C Louis

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Adrian C. Louis's poems, wrested from the harsh experience of the Rez and his own lonely struggle with his wife's illness, reveal life's darker truths.... (read more)

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Moon Crossing Bridge Moon Crossing Bridge
by Tess Gallagher

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Tess Gallagher's stunning new poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver. "These poems are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers--songs of love and loss, of pain and recovery. . . . A brave,... (read more)

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Oscar Wilde

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Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity... (read more)

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Auden: Poems Auden: Poems
by W H Auden

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The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing... (read more)

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Green Integer #94: The Cursed Poets Green Integer #94: The Cursed Poets
by Paul Verlaine

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From the aritcles published in French journals, the full version of Les Poetes Maudits, first published in 1888.... (read more)

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The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours
by Jill Scott

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Writing poems and keeping journal since 1991, Jill Scott now shares her personal poetry collection in The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours. Praised for her earthy, honestly erotic, soulful and very real lyrics, Jill Scott explores all the flavors of life,... (read more)

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Blinking with Fists: Poems Blinking with Fists: Poems
by Billy Corgan

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The hit poetry collection from the creative force behind The Smashing Pumpkins  Having risen to fame during the grunge era in the early nineties, Billy Corgan is among the most respected figures of the alternative rock world—a visionary... (read more)

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Collected Poems, 1909-1962 Collected Poems, 1909-1962
by T S Eliot

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Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliot’s poetry that he wished to preserve.... (read more)

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Back Country Back Country
by Gary Snyder

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'A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit', this collection is made up of four sections: 'Far West', 'Far East', 'Kali', and 'Back'. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji, with whose work Synder feels... (read more)

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Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage
by Diane Middlebrook

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In this "deep, rich, and satisfying biography" ("The Washington Post Book World") of the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Diane Middlebrook presents a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted--and nourished--his entire... (read more)

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Repair: Poems Repair: Poems
by C K Williams

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Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."Always, "What will have been done to me?"And so we don our mental armor,flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we... (read more)

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