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    The Shadow of Sirius

    W. S. Merwin
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    Museum of Accidents

    Rachel Zucker
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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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Lit: A Memoir
Lit: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
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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)

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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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African American
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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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    Odes to Common Things

    Pablo Neruda
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    And Still I Rise

    Maya Angelou
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    Poems, 1960-1967

    Denise Levertov

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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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The Singing Knives: Poems
The Singing Knives: Poems
by Frank Stanford
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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)

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Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics)
Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics)
by Allen Tate
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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)

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To Be Read in 500 Years
To Be Read in 500 Years
by Albert Goldbarth
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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)

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Friday, November 27, 2009
Lit: A Memoir
  1. Lit: A Memoir
    by Mary Karr
  2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Anne Carson
  3. The Florist's Daughter
    by Patricia Hampl
  4. The World's Wife: Poems
    by Carol Ann Duffy
  5. The Prophet
    by Kahlil Gibran

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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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    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
Review-a-Day | September 21, 2009

An Exquisite Place of Make-Believe



See Jack (Pitt Poetry) by Russell Edson Reviewed by Julie Babcock Rain Taxi Russell Edson's nineteenth prose poetry collection, See Jack, continues... Continue »
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    See Jack

    Russell Edson
Review-a-Day | September 9, 2009

Double Gesture



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 »
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    A Time in Xanadu

    Lars Gustafsson
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