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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Poetry $18.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list New Collected Poems Eavan Boland $14.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Certainty Dream Kate Hall $16.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list American Poets Continuum #120: Cool Auditor Ray Gonzalez $12.99 New Trade Paper add to wish list Sinners Welcome Mary Karr $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson Brenda Wineapple $15.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Beauty Breaks in Mary Ann Samyn Browse more New Arrivals in Poetry A to Z Browse more titles in Poetry-A to Z Dot-to-Dot, Oregon by Sid Miller Publisher Comments Sid Miller, editor of the Burnside Review, explores seven routes from the coast to the mountains, from inner-city Portland to the Idaho border. Dot-to-Dot, Oregon, a collection of fifty poems, travels through the cities, towns, and monuments of Oregon... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Poetry-A to Z If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish and Fady Joudah Synopsis Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language--lyrical and tender--helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Poetry-A to Z Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr Publisher Comments In Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her New York Times bestselling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry, Mary Karr chronicles her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. A recollection of her struggle to... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Poetry-A to Z The Poetry of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow Publisher Comments Rainer Maria Rilkes revelatory poetry is one of the great achievements of the modern era. Deeply influenced by classical literature but endowed with a personal symbolic language all its own, his work is a profound investigation of the possibilities of... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list African American Browse more titles in Poetry-African American Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa Synopsis This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Poetry $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Human Wishes Robert Hass $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Halflife Meghan Orourke $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Collected Poems Philip Larkin $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Boat of Quiet Hours: Poems Jane Kenyon $8.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Complete Poems of Hart Crane Hart Crane Browse recently arrived used titles in Poetry Anthologies Browse more titles in Poetry-Anthologies 101 Great American Poems Dover Thrift E by American Poetry Publisher Comments Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe's "The Raven," Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price: $0.60 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Criticism and Discussion Browse more titles in Poetry-Criticism and Discussion The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot Publisher Comments In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, “shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature.” How such... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Small Press Poetry Browse more titles in Small Press Poetry New and Selected Poems by Charles O. Hartman Publisher Comments New poems join a selection from nearly 40 years of Hartmanas groundbreaking computer- and jazz-influenced work.... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Anthologies Browse more titles in Poetry-Anthologies The Best American Poetry 2009 by David Wagoner Publisher Comments David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Featured Titles Browse more titles in Poetry-Featured Titles The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Publisher Comments Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you were stone. --from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Sale Books Poems 1968 To 1998 by Paul Muldoon Publisher Comments "Ireland"The Volkswagen parked in the gap,But gently ticking over.You wonder if it's loversAnd not men hurrying backAcross two fields and a river.Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Used Books Acts of Light by Emily Dickinson Synopsis Originally published in 1980 and nominated for a National Book Award, Acts of Light includes Dickinson's best-loved poems as well as an extensive essay on the poet's life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Color paintings.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list

Bestsellers Friday, December 4, 2009 Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds by Billy Collins The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins The Liar's Club by Mary Karr Get Poetry... News, bestseller lists, special Powell's offers, and more in your inbox. More info about our Subject Newsletters Review-a-Day | October 16, 2009 Congenial Disorder: Why Should We Look for Comfort in Poetry? 0 comments By Review-a-Day Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters) by Jay Parini Reviewed by Denis Donoghue Harper's Magazine If you were to write a book called Why Poetry Matters,... Continue » $14.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Why Poetry Matters Jay Parini Review-a-Day | October 10, 2009 Motet for Seven Voices 1 comment By Review-a-Day 7 Poets, 4 Days, 1 Book by Marvin Bell Reviewed by Kelly Lenox Powells.com In October 2007, an international group of poets -- Istvan Laszlo Geher... Continue » $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book Christopher Merrill Review-a-Day | September 21, 2009 An Exquisite Place of Make-Believe 0 comments By Review-a-Day See Jack (Pitt Poetry) by Russell Edson Reviewed by Julie Babcock Rain Taxi Russell Edson's nineteenth prose poetry collection, See Jack, continues... Continue » $14.50 New Trade Paper add to wish list See Jack Russell Edson

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