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Emily Bronte: Poems
Emily Bronte: Poems
by Emily Bronte
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The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Bronte contains poems that demonstrate a sensibility elemental in its force with an imaginative discipline... (read more)

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Two Haloed Mourners
Two Haloed Mourners
by Bernadette Mayer
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As its title would suggest, Two Haloed Mourners is a work marked by a sometimes amorphous, sometimes definite sense of spirituality, a spirituality immanent to every stray thought and object. Loss and regret also figure prominently here, not as features... (read more)

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Bandanna
Bandanna
by Paul Muldoon
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Following his highly-praised Shining Brow, which was also written as an opera libretto for the American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Paul Muldoon's Bandanna takes us into very different territory. Its action is set in a small town on the Mexican border; it... (read more)

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The Complete Poetry of John Milton
The Complete Poetry of John Milton
by John Milton
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The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collations of all known manuscripts, chronology and verbal variants recorded. Works in Latin, Greek and... (read more)

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The Tango
The Tango
by Leslie Scalapino
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Poetry. Art. "The Tango is an investigation into the shifting locations of consciousness - how our investment into the attributes of things determines what is evoked by them. Through the variable reconstructions of given forms (the fractured repetition... (read more)

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A Village Life
A Village Life
by Louise Gluck
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A Village Life, Louise Glücks eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia... (read more)

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News of the World
News of the World
by Philip Levine
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A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from... (read more)

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The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove
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Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years... (read more)

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Elephant Rocks: Poems
Elephant Rocks: Poems
by Kay Ryan
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Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Appealing to a wide range of readers, Ryan's work reaches out both to those who wish to be invited into a poem and to those who insist on being... (read more)

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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
by Robert Hass
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One of Americas most accessible and engaging poets takes readers on a lively and surprising night tour of Americas public places. Night of the Republicshowcases one of Americas best poets not only working at the height of his powers but pushing into new... (read more)

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Selected Poems (Fsg Classics)
Selected Poems (Fsg Classics)
by Randall Jarrell
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Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during... (read more)

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The Door with CD (Audio)
The Door with CD (Audio)
by Margaret Atwood
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The Door, Margaret Atwoods first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the... (read more)

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John Dryden
John Dryden
by John Dryden
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In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here... (read more)

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World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell (Us)
World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell (Us)
by Nicholas Murray
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Andrew Marvell (1621-78) enjoys an unrivaled reputation based on the popularity of poems like To His Coy Mistress, yet his life has often seemed puzzling. In the first fully comprehensive biography since the 1960s, the poet emerges as an important figure... (read more)

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Say Uncle
Say Uncle
by Kay Ryan
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Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same... (read more)

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The Dik-Dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works
The Dik-Dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works
by Anne Tardos
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Poetry. "By hearing the words-and the sounds the words make-I know immediately, on a mysterious musical level, what's wrong and what's right. Here, the text becomes music and the writer becomes a composer who listens. One part of the brain maybe a timid... (read more)

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Ballistics: Poems
Ballistics: Poems
by Billy Collins
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A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. Using simple, understandable language, notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate captures ordinary life-its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy. His everyman approach to... (read more)

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Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his... (read more)

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Eternal Enemies: Poems
Eternal Enemies: Poems
by Adam Zagajewski
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The highway became the Red Sea. We moved through the storm like a sheer valley. You drove; I looked at you with love. --from Storm One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers... (read more)

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A Purchase in the White Botanica
A Purchase in the White Botanica
by Piero Heliczer
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Poetry. Piero Heliczer was a seminal figure in sixties underground culture in NYC, London and Paris. He authored several poetry books including and I Dreamt I Shot Arrows In My Amazon Bra and The First Battle of the Marne. This volume, edited by longtime... (read more)

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