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Letters to a Stranger: Poems
by Thomas James  Publisher Comments The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James I will last forever. I am not impatient— My skin will wait to greet its old complexions. I’ll lie here till the world swims back again. ...
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Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
by Edward (edt) Snow Publisher Comments "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship.—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of...
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Littlefoot
by Charles Wright Publisher Comments Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country’s most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator’s search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on “the other side of my own death.&#...
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For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut
by Takashi Hiraide Publisher Comments Winner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the English text meets the Japanese half way. The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A...
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Why Speak?: Poems
by Nathaniel Bellows Publisher Comments "A smart and powerful debut."—Library Journal A debut collection, exhibiting exceptional narrative and lyrical gifts, that explores the realms of memory, human emotion, and the natural world. These layered, braided narratives combine images of...
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The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces (Dodo Press)
by Jonathan Swift Publisher Comments Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet. He is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift...
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A Lens in the Palm
by Kelly Grovier Publisher Comments The themes that populate this innovative collection of poems confront a host of voices and philosophies. Along with the ghosts of Keats, Giotto, William Turner, and Spinoza, the landscapes of Louisiana, the coasts of Wales, the cloisters of Oxford, and...
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We Weep for Our Strangeness (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary)
by Dennis Schmitz Synopsis Dennis Schmitz's first book. These poems by Dennis Schmitz about how "a man must/grow from the inside/like a tree breaks whole/from the seed" and about the birth of a foal or slow, miraculous growth of a glacier or how the river "lay like a blue wrist...
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The Poems of Mao Zedong
by Zedong Mao Synopsis Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition...
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William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision
by Marsha Ke Schuchard Publisher Comments The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake's creative and spiritual life - Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake's mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary...
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Companions for the Journey #16: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women
by Carolyne (trn) Wright Publisher Comments How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart and mind through their struggles for equality, opportunity, and recognition in a changing society. The...
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Ephelia
by Maureen E. Mulvihill Publisher Comments This large-format facsimile edition, with extended Introduction, bibliography, textual notes, and portraits, reproduces the extant works, to date, of the 17th-century poet, 'Ephelia'. By tradition, the identity of 'Ephelia' has been a long-contested...
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The Wave-Maker
by Elizabeth Spires Publisher Comments A contemplative, witty new collection from a "jewel of a poet" (Los Angeles Times). In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as...
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Installations (National Poetry Series Books)
by Joe Bonomo Publisher Comments Selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series by Naomi Shihab Nye The prose poems in Installations invite the reader to encounter, in one extraordinary afternoon, a series of twenty art installations where something fantastic, perhaps improbable, occurs...
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The Second Blush: Poems
by Molly Peacock Publisher Comments Acclaimed poet Molly Peacock tracks the vicissitudes of midlife marriage in her saucy, vulnerable, philosophical sixth collection. Semonstrating once again her "luxuriantly sensual imagination" (Washington Post), Molly Peacock celebrates marriage and a...
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The Walking-Away World
by Kenneth Patchen Publisher Comments The wonderful picture-poems of Kenneth Patchen, long out of print, are being brought back into one generous volume—cryptic creatures quipping quirky quotes and all. The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and political...
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2009 Poetry Speaks Boxed Calendar (Poetry Speaks Experience)
by Sourcebooks Inc Synopsis A year of poets and poetry based on the bestselling book with audio, bringing you short poetry from the greatest poets past and present, along with their thoughts and reflections on their craft and fascinating biographical information. Includes much...
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We Meet
by Kenneth Patchen Publisher Comments Meet Kenneth Patchen, a prolific, ground-breaking proletarian poet/painter whose most eclectic and wildly eccentric works are re-launched in a single startling volume—We Meet. The singular work of Kenneth Patchen has influenced poets, artists and...
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A Handful of Bees (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary)
by Dzvinia Orlowsky Publisher Comments Originally published in 1994 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, A Handful of Bees has been republished as a Classic Contemporary by Carnegie Mellon. The collection embarks with poems reflecting on the passing of Mrs. Orlowsky's father (to whom the book...
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The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos (Vintage Classics)
by Alexander Pope Publisher Comments A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors. A hilarious mock epic, this is the sharp and witty...
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