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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Poetry $10.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Shadow of Sirius W. S. Merwin $22.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan Poetry) Adrian Blevins $14.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems Karyna Mcglynn $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Museum of Accidents Rachel Zucker $14.50 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list What I Can't Bear Losing Gerald Stern $18.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry Madhur Anand 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) List Price $25.99 Your price: $20.50 Sale - 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 $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Bollingen XLV #04: Dialogues Paul Valery $13.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Odes to Common Things Pablo Neruda $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list And Still I Rise Maya Angelou $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Fully Empowered: A Bilingual Edition Pablo Neruda $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Poems, 1960-1967 Denise Levertov 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 Poetry Month Picks Browse more titles in Poetry-Poetry Month Picks The Singing Knives: Poems by Frank Stanford Staff Pick Frank Stanford was an Arkansas poet who died in 1978 at the age of 29. Thankfully, much of his work has been preserved and republished since then, despite the poet's shamefully small audience. His work is like a dark, gothic country song full of yearning... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Sale Books Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics) by Allen Tate Publisher Comments One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past — in the land, the people, and the traditions of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Poetry-Used Books To Be Read in 500 Years by Albert Goldbarth Publisher Comments So often (lets be honest here) we poets will invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes. But this one is real, and one of the few I remember. I awoke in the future.               ... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Friday, November 27, 2009 Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 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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