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The Temple Gate Called Beautiful
by David Kirby
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"David Kirby is a master conversationalist, a witty and deep feeling thinker, part Mel Brooks, part Virgil, dazzling in his range of tone and reference, in his surprising, often zany, yet always satisfying turns from observation to rumination, from elegy... ( read more)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems (Library of Classic Poets)
by Elizabeth Browning
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One of the most popular women poets of the Victorian era remains one of our most popular poets today. Included in this lovely volume is the complete Sonnets From the Portuguese as well as sections from Casa Guidi Windows and Aurora Lee. 224 pages.... ( read more)
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Squares and Courtyards
by Marilyn Hacker
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Moving Back and forth with the rhythm of the writer's life, from Paris to New York, from the 1990s to the 1940s, Squares and Courtyards reminds us that, to take action, it is necessary to take notice.... ( read more)
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Poetry Europe Series #4: Man and His Masks
by Jean Orizet
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The poems of Jean Orizet take the whole world as field, and the faults in the time-surface of life as caves for exploration. He is one of the great exponents of that particularly French poetic form, the prose poem. The last translation of his works was... ( read more)
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The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987
by Seamus Heaney
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In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the... ( read more)
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Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen: A Search for Serenity in the Sun
by Roger Green
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English poet Roger Green left the safety of God, country, and whiskey to immerse himself in an austere and sober life on the Greek Island of Hydra. But when Green discovered that his terrace overlooked the garden of sixties balladeer Leonard Cohen, he... ( read more)
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Robert Frost: A Life
by Jay Parini
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This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at... ( read more)
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Nuevas Odas Elementales
by Pablo Neruda
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This book praises the miracle of life. An ode is always a song. And this elemental weave of words is like a choir intoning an epiphany. One about our encounter with the always renewed miracle of our everyday/ daily universe. Sergio... ( read more)
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Skid (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Dean Young
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Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of... ( read more)
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Ghost Pain: Poems
by Sydney Lea
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"Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved-through a long, rich career-into one of America's most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Painis his most eloquent and wrenching book."-T.R. Hummer "Ghost Painis a remarkable book, which takes... ( read more)
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Moon Crossing Bridge
by Tess Gallagher
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Moon Crossing Bridge Tess Gallagher Tess Gallagher, one of America's most accomplished poets, presents her sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved, whose presence and absence are recalled in sombre... ( read more)
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Committed to Breathing
by Tony Medina
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Emerging with a varied political sensibility, this book explodes the bourgeois self-indulgence of American culture to give a lambasting critique of its current global ultra-exploration and political repression. Exploring pressing and complicated... ( read more)
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Quipu
by Arthur Sze
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"Sze brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."-The New Yorker "Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."-The Washington Post... ( read more)
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Cairo Traffic (Phoenix Poets)
by Lloyd Schwartz
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In Cairo Traffic, his third book of poems, Lloyd Schwartz asks the Sphinx to explain the riddle "about, you know, / Time and Power and Families-the one you think you / have the answer to. Tell me your answer! / No . don't." The search for answers takes... ( read more)
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Thaw
by Julie Sheehan
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Julie Sheehans Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Marie Ponsot, the judge for the 2000 Prize, chose Thaw... ( read more)
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Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
by Alan Dugan
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This monumental collection tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows an eighty-year-old at the height of his poetic power, affirming with renewed vigor that art is a grounded practice with no room for pretension.... ( read more)
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Collected Shorter Poems
by John Peck
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A selection of poems by a contemporary master John Peck's poems draw on both modernist and traditional resources, quarrying in the large gaps among contemporary readers of poetry. This definitive collection makes available difficult-to-find works by a... ( read more)
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Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures
by W S Di Piero
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Di Piero looks at interrelations between the arts, and at the ways in which the arts express aspects of contemporary culture as well as the individual temperaments and gifts of their makers. These essays are elegant and passionate tributes to the... ( read more)
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Ivory Cradle: Poems
by Anne Marie Macari
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Ivory Cradleis the winner of the third annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, as chosen by poet Robert Creeley. In his introduction, Creeley writes, "now and again one comes upon a story so quietly and articulately told that it stays... ( read more)
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The Hand of the Poet
by Rodney Phillips
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A poet is a poet for such a very tiny bit of his life; for the rest he is a human being, one of whose responsibilities is to know and feel, as much as he can, all that is moving around and within him. --Dylan Thomas This unique volume celebrates poetry... ( read more)
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