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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
by Gary Snyder
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and counter-culture hero offers a
prescription for recovering our humanness by giving it away--by
giving back to the earth more than we take. No index. Published by
North Point Press, 850 Talbot Avenue, Berkeley, CA... ( read more)
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Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works (Perennial Classics)
by Arthur Rimbaud
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The Orphans' New YearThe room is full of shadows; vaguely heard, The soft, sad whispers of two tiny babes. Their faces, heavy still with sleep, peck out Through long white curtains that shake and swirl ... -Outside, the shivering birds hop near; Their... ( read more)
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
by Neil Astley
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Staying Alive is an anthology of life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time where much in the world feels unreal and inhuman. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping... ( read more)
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
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Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The... ( read more)
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Elizabeth Browning
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Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems and political events. These include "Consolation," "The Cry of the Human," "A Curse for a Nation," "The... ( read more)
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Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A new printing of Ferlinghetti's classic. The title of this vibrant collection of poems is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, and expresses the way Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950s... ( read more)
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot
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Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.<BR>... ( read more)
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House of Light
by Mary Oliver
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Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual... ( read more)
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Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
by Walt Whitman
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One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was... ( read more)
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The Seven Ages
by Louise Gluck
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Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance.She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal... ( read more)
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Leaves of Grass the Death Bed Edition
by Walt Whitman
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's... ( read more)
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
by Sharon Olds
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A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the... ( read more)
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The Best of James Whitcomb Riley
by Donald C. Manlove
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James Whitcomb Riley, born in Greenfield, Indiana, in 1849, was a genial chronicler of small-town life who immortalized the simple virtues of the people he knew best.
The best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish... ( read more)
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A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems
by Raymond Carver
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Raymond Carver, author of Where I'm Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how in the time left to... ( read more)
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Vice: New and Selected Poems
by Ai
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Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books--"Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate" and "Greed"--along with 17 new poems employing her trademark ferocity.... ( read more)
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Selected Poems
by e e cummings
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/KENNEDY This is the first selection from the poems of e.e. cummings to be published since 1959, five years before the poet's death. The 156 poems selected by cummings' biographer are arranged in twelve sections, each preceded by an illustration by... ( read more)
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Selected Poems
by William Ca Williams
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Williams's poetry is characterized by formal freedom — inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman — coupled with an imagistic conciseness; like Pound, Williams believed that concrete details need no explanation, that ideas must be embodied in... ( read more)
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Emily Dickinson
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Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness... ( read more)
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Human Dark with Sugar
by Brenda Shaughnessy
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andldquo;Sassy, tough-girl humor. . . . [Brenda] Shaughnessyandrsquo;s voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.andrdquo;andmdash;Harvard Review andldquo;Brenda Shaughnessy . . . writes like the love-child of Mina Loy... ( read more)
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Ooga-Booga: Poems
by Frederick Seidel
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< div> < div> < div> < div> < div> < b> The best American poet writing today*& nbsp; < /b> < /div> < div> & nbsp; < /div> < /div> < div> & #8220; The title itself&... ( read more)
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