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The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Teran (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Teran (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
by Ana Enriqueta Teran

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Ana Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted... (read more)

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The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995
by Michael Palmer

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THE LION BRIDGE offers for the first time a comprehensive view of Michael Palmer's extraordinary poetry. Dense and haunting, analytic and lyrical, classical and profoundly avant-garde, Palmer's work has a matchless, indescribable beauty. The poet himself... (read more)

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The Street of Clocks The Street of Clocks
by Thomas Lux

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The poems gathered in THE STREET OF CLOCKS are lyrical monologues urgently delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against a vivid landscape--the rural America of Thomas Lux's childhood and... (read more)

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Rag Trade: Poems Rag Trade: Poems
by Miriam Sagan

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One of New Mexico's finest contemporary poets, Miriam Sagan has consistently explored emotional clarity and compassion within life's myriad interactions. In her new book, "Rag Trade, she presents poems of borders--between nations and cultures, in history... (read more)

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The Geographic Cure: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selection) The Geographic Cure: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selection)
by Ellen Dudley

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"Another time, another day, another continent perhaps and life would be better, lovers happier, the dead un-dead" is the sought-after "geographic cure" in the title of Vermont poet Ellen Dudley's powerful second book. Traveling through North America... (read more)

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Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
by Simon Armitage

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A brilliant new collection from one of the most important British poets at work today. In Tyrannosaurus Rex, we meet a writer who speaks naturally, and with frankness and restraint, for his culture. He witnesses the pathos of the women at work in the... (read more)

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Spinoza in Her Youth Spinoza in Her Youth
by Norma Cole

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These rich and rigorous poems delight in and disrupt the framing structures of language, memory, and history, so as to inhabit new fluencies of possibility. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter, while addressing concerns that emphasize the... (read more)

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Hazmat Hazmat
by Jd Mcclatchy

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HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation familiar from signs at the entrances to long dark tunnels or on the sides of suspicious containers. Here, in a series of stunning poems, J. D. McClatchy examines the first hazmat we all... (read more)

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A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c. A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c.
by Maurice Manning

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This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness,... (read more)

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Baudelaire (Phoenix Poetry Series) Baudelaire (Phoenix Poetry Series)
by Charles Baudelaire

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Listen! They must be words, drifting between These living pillars: elusive, never simple. --from "Correspondences" Against the normal, the healthy, and the rational, the imagination of poet Charles Baudelaire plunged into the “Flowers of Evil... (read more)

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Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945
by Michael S Harper

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A rich collection of the work of post-WWII African-American poets, this book brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers an... (read more)

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Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North America Haiku Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North America Haiku
by Bruce Ross

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Haiku Moment is tbe most comprehensive volume of contemporary North American haiku written in English. It contains over 800 haiku by 185 poets.... (read more)

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Beautiful Motion (Morse Poetry Prize) Beautiful Motion (Morse Poetry Prize)
by Dana Roeser

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Dana Roeser grew up in the Philadelphia area and was educated at Tulane University (B.A.), the University of Virginia (M.A., M.F.A.), and the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts... (read more)

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Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Rudyard Kipling

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Treasury of 44 poems recalls British character and attitudes at the height of the Empire. "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever," "If--," "The White Man's Burden," many others, reprinted from standard texts. Notes.... (read more)

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Falling Water: Poems Falling Water: Poems
by John Koethe

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"As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more... (read more)

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Vinegar Bone (Wesleyan Poetry) Vinegar Bone (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Martha Zweig

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A stellar debut collection of poems evokes the life of a woman in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.... (read more)

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Grub Grub
by Martin Mooney

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Martin Mooney's poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the shipyards, an early morning fishing expedition, the... (read more)

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American Poets Continuum #65: Jam American Poets Continuum #65: Jam
by Joe Anne Mclaughlin

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As the title implies, Jamfeatures of wealth of poems driven by a distinct music resulting from Joe-Anne McLaughlin's studies in both jazz and blues. Propelled by strong rhythms and line breaks, McLaughlin's poems present a variety of characters trying to... (read more)

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Popular Music Popular Music
by Stephen Burt

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"In this beautiful debut volume, Stephen Burt, in poetic actions that range with unusual ease from prose to sonnets and free verse, explores the sensation of selfhood as it presents itself, in all its fractured pans, for reformation. His speaker moves... (read more)

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Nostos Nostos
by V Penelope Pelizzon

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In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: "With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life -- and she sees it for... (read more)

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