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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Poetry $15.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat) Kate Durbin $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Mansion of Happiness (VQR Poetry) Robin Ekiss $16.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot $18.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Chain Letter of the Soul: New and Selected Poems Bill Holm $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Flinch of Song Jennifer Militello $16.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Edward Hopper: Poems a Bilingual Edition Ernest Farres Browse more New Arrivals in Poetry A to Z Browse more titles in Poetry-A to Z Dot-to-Dot, Oregon by Sid Miller Synopsis 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 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 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 $10.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list God Particles Thomas Lux $8.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Dance Dance Revolution: Poems Cathy Park Hong $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Ambiguity of Morning Nancy Dillingham $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) Anne Carson $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list For All We Know Ciaran Carson $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems, 1991-1995 Adrienne Cecile Rich Browse recently arrived used titles in Poetry Anthologies Browse more titles in Poetry-Anthologies The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-607).... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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 Haiku and Tanka Browse more titles in Poetry-Haiku and Tanka Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Basho Publisher Comments Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Sale Books The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop Publisher Comments Presented in two sections, "Memory: Persons and Places" and "Stories," this book offers the collected prose writings of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), one of America's most celebrated and admired poets. The selections are arranged not by date of compostion,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Used Books Sinking Creek: Poems by John Engels Publisher Comments Sinking Creek, John Engel's most moving collection, concerns itself with aging, illness, death, and the breakup of a marriage - the gradual disappearance of the past into the porous soils of memory, and the paradoxical reemergence of all that was the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Sunday, November 22, 2009 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 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 » $14.95 New 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 Review-a-Day | September 9, 2009 Double Gesture 1 comment By Review-a-Day A Time in Xanadu by Lars Gustafsson Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Boston Review With the exception of Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poets have not had... Continue » $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list A Time in Xanadu Lars Gustafsson

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