by Allen Ginsberg  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Sylvia Plath
Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Saul Williams Publisher Comments Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Maya Angelou
Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your Price $4.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments A must-have collection for fans of Garrison Keillor and all lovers of... good poems. Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Tom Blood
Powells.com Staff Pick Blood's poems stand tall, arms wide apart, offering to embrace or engulf you. His words flutter and get stuck in your hair like static electricity. A delicate, abstract, and mysterious little book. Recommended by Kevin, Powells... (read more) Your Price $10.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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by Mary Oliver
Publisher Comments Winner of the 1992 National Book Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1993 "One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an... (read more) Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Hayden Carruth Synopsis Winner of the National Book Award. With passion and pathos and great good humor -- in poems that could only be written by a mature poet at the height of his powers -- Carruth speaks with intimate and urgent clarity of love late in life. In heart-rending... (read more) Your Price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Richard Jones Publisher Comments "Jones can be stunning, effortlessly finding the right tone. This is instinctive poetry, combining bluntness with reserve."-The Village Voice "Richard Jones... demonstrates an ability both to transform into affirmation the tragedies of personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lee Publisher Comments In the foreword to Li-Young Lee's first book, Rose(BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, "What characterizes Li-Young Lee's poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding. . . . I... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Tony Hoagland Publisher Comments The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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