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    Mahmoud Darwish
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Dot-to-Dot, Oregon
Dot-to-Dot, Oregon
by Sid Miller
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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)

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If I Were Another
If I Were Another
by Mahmoud Darwish and Fady Joudah
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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)

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
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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)

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The Poetry of Rilke
The Poetry of Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow
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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)

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Warhorses
Warhorses
by Yusef Komunyakaa
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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)

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
by J. D. McClatchy
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-607).... (read more)

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The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
by Floyd Skloot
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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)

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New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems
by Charles O. Hartman
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New poems join a selection from nearly 40 years of Hartmanas groundbreaking computer- and jazz-influenced work.... (read more)

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The Best American Poetry 2009
The Best American Poetry 2009
by David Wagoner
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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)

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Narrow Road to the Interior
Narrow Road to the Interior
by Matsuo Basho
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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)

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Electric Light
Electric Light
by Seamus Heaney
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A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf.In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on airThat is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on holdIn the everything flows and steady go of the world.--from "Perch"Seamus Heaney's new... (read more)

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Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
by Robert Pinsky
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It is refreshing to find a poet who is intellectually interesting and technically first-rate. Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.... (read more)

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
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    by Anne Carson
  2. Let Us Compare Mythologies
    by Leonard Cohen
  3. The Florist's Daughter
    by Patricia Hampl
  4. Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    by John Keats
  5. The Prophet
    by Kahlil Gibran

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Review-a-Day | November 9, 2009

Revelations in Verse



The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan Poetry) by Barbara Guest Reviewed by Tyrone Williams Rain Taxi The relativity of the term "obscure"... Continue »
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Review-a-Day | October 26, 2009

The Poetry of Whiplash



Lisa Roberton's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson Reviewed by Katie Fowley Rain Taxi If Lisa Robertson's poetry were a material, it would probably... Continue »
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Review-a-Day | October 16, 2009

Congenial Disorder: Why Should We Look for Comfort in Poetry?



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 »
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    Why Poetry Matters

    Jay Parini
Review-a-Day | October 10, 2009

Motet for Seven Voices



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 »
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    Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book

    Christopher Merrill
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