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    Landscape and Journey

    William Virgil Davis
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    If I Were Another

    Mahmoud Darwish
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    Flinch of Song

    Jennifer Militello

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Scary, No Scary
Scary, No Scary
by Zach Schomburg
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This follow-up to Zachary Schomburg’s acclaimed first collection of poems The Man Suit, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton keys — at once dark and playful. With loneliness and levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a... (read more)

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Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems
Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems
by Joy Katz
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Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public.  Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer’ s Dark Horses joyfully rediscovers dozens of these poems... (read more)

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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
by Walt Whitman
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"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece "Song of... (read more)

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    Coney Island of the Mind

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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    Fleurs Du Mal

    Charles Baudelaire

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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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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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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.... (read more)

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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Tupac Shakur
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His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest... (read more)

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version
by William Butle Yeats
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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest... (read more)

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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
by William Stafford
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I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... (read more)

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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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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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