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American Primitive American Primitive
by Mary Oliver

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The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and... (read more)

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Eagle Pond Eagle Pond
by Donald Hall

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This original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and then lived with his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, until... (read more)

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Pocket Poets #51: Scripture of the Golden Eternity Pocket Poets #51: Scripture of the Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac

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These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.... (read more)

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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin To Bleed a Bit Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin To Bleed a Bit
by Charles Bukowski

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tough company poems like gunslingers sit around and shoot holes in my windows chew on my toilet paper read the race results take the phone off the hook. poems like gunslingers ask me what the hell my game is, and would I like... (read more)

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Selected Poems of Ri Selected Poems of Ri
by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more)

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Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
by Maya Angelou

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In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward... (read more)

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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke

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"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.... (read more)

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Selected Poems Selected Poems
by W H Auden

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This edition presents the original versions of many poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. In this volume, Edward Mendelson has restored the early versions of some thirty poems... (read more)

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Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edna St Vinc Millay

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Treasury of 23 works by American poet renowned for the lyric beauty of her early works. In addition to the title poem, this collection includes "Interim," "Sorrow," "Ashes of Life," "Three Songs of Shattering," "The Dream," "When the Year Grows Old," and... (read more)

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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Walt Whitman

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In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual... (read more)

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What the Twilight Says: Essays What the Twilight Says: Essays
by Derek Walcott

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The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate.Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere for more than twenty years. What the Twilight Says collects these pieces to form a volume of... (read more)

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Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition
by Sylvia Plath

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"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert... (read more)

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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
by Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured... (read more)

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Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
by Harrison And Kooser

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Braided Creek contains more than 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over... (read more)

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Circles on the Water Circles on the Water
by Marge Piercy

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More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.... (read more)

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Collected Poems Collected Poems
by Philip Larkin

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One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all his books--"The North Ship," "The Less Deceived," "The... (read more)

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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Faubion Bowers

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Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides Foreword and many informative notes... (read more)

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The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
by Charles Simic

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Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material... (read more)

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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
by Carolyn Forche

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This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times". Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this... (read more)

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What Narcissism Means to Me What Narcissism Means to Me
by Tony Hoagland

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An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey GospelHow did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?and a sewage system of... (read more)

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