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Christmas Day
by Paul Durcan
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This book of poems by an Irish poet forms a beautiful vision of Christmas Day.... ( read more)
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Boss Cupid: Poems
by Thom Gunn
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A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.
"He dreams at the center of a closed system, "
"Like the prison system, or a system of love, "
"Where folktale, recipe, and household custom"
"Refer back to the maze that they are of... ( read more)
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Going Around with Bachelors
by Agnes Walsh
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The spirit of the departed — source, origin, heritage, history — is the essence of this book, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Agnes Walsh’ s first book, "In the Old Country of My Heart," is one of the most read and best loved... ( read more)
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Christina Rossetti (Everyman Paperback Classics)
by Christina Rossetti
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In poems ranging from fantasy and verses for the young, to ballads, love lyrics, sonnets and religious poetry, Rossetti was regarded by many of her contemporaries as Britain's finest living poet. This book contains both texts and commentary.... ( read more)
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That Little Something: Poems
by Charles Simic
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In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound, the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior. "Evil things are being done in our name," he writes in... ( read more)
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Drift & Pulse: Poems
by Kathleen Halme
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In Drift and Pulse, her third book of poems, Kathleen Halme is fascinated with the domain where matter is experienced as mind. Drawing upon brain science, anthropology, and biology, these poems take aim at the big questions of form and death, how we... ( read more)
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Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (Yale Studies in English)
by Paul H Fry
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In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth’s motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or... ( read more)
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The Charge
by Patrick Donnelly
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Intense and pristine lyrics by a poet living in the age of AIDS. He takes his subject head-on without a shred of sentimentality or self-pity. In spite of its difficult subject, this is not a dark book. Gregory Orr has said of Donnelly that "everything he... ( read more)
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A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems
by Irving Layton
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A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished... ( read more)
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Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988
by Adrienne Rich
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For 30 years, Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life--sexualities, loves, damages, struggles--as inseparable from a wider social condition, a world with others, in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the source of... ( read more)
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The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry
by Octavio Paz
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In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it "modern," and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane<BR>... ( read more)
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On Poetry and Craft
by Theodore Roethke
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"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his... ( read more)
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Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil: )Bone Hundred Poems
by Paul Durcan
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Paul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural tile for thirty years, and his poetry has acquired a huge international following. With Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil he has produced the correction by which his whole career will be judged. It is... ( read more)
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Nesting Doll
by Rita Kiefer
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In Nesting Doll, Rita Brady Kiefer celebrates the power of words to transform life while exploring the mysterious ways memory and language help shape each other. Throughout twenty poems, Kiefer brilliantly explores the way in which women and religious... ( read more)
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Rimbaud Versions and Inventions: Still Unilluminated
by Stephen Berg
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Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem). In Still Unilluminated I..., poems reinvent the work of Arthur Rimbaud.
These... ( read more)
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Nest of Thistles (Morse Poetry Prize)
by Annie Boutelle
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Winner of the 2005 Samuel French Morse Poetry... ( read more)
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Spectral Waves
by Madeline Defrees
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"DeFrees is committed to rigorous, even ritualistic, forms and a dense economy and precision of language."-Poetry Brimming with characteristic charm and careful regard, Madeline DeFrees ranges in scope and scale from sonnets about Elvis, a poem-cycle... ( read more)
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Orient Point
by Julie Sheehan
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"Tender, sassy, quietly observant, deeply cutting...a collection bursting with verbal and existential exuberance."—Billy Collins Julie Sheehan's poems are like nothing else: woven of nature guides and self-help books, legal argot and street slang... ( read more)
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Antonio Machado: Selected Poems
by Machado And Trueblood
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Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand... ( read more)
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The Long Marriage: Poems
by Maxine Kumin
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After her near-fatal accident, Maxine Kumin feared poetry might have "deserted" her, but this luminous, reflective collection proves her wrong.
Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, and in a series of poems Kumin finds inspiration... ( read more)
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