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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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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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Erotic Poems
Erotic Poems
by e e cummings
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Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first... (read more)

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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems
Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems
by Traci Brimhall
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Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world.  Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers... (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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Mornings Like This: Found Poems
Mornings Like This: Found Poems
by Annie Dillard
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Dillard rearranges sentences from old-and often odd-books, and composes ironic poems-some serious, some light-on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, and death.... (read more)

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Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
by Adrienne Rich
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"Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but... (read more)

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Early Poems & Juvenilia
Early Poems & Juvenilia
by Philip Larkin
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A new treasury of early verse by one of the most admired and loved English poets of the 20th century. *Also appeared in October Buyer's Notes*... (read more)

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot
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Eliots famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.... (read more)

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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
by Stanley Kunitz
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Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination,"... (read more)

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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski
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from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars,brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming inyour cheap room,you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, NorthAvenue 21,... (read more)

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For the Living and the Dead
For the Living and the Dead
by Tomas Transtromer
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Combining poetry and a memoir of his childhood in Sweden in one volume, For the Living and the Dead once again demonstrates Tomas Tranströmers gift for capturing and grounding the elusive, luminous details of our modern world. A work that... (read more)

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Collected Works of W. B. Yeats #04: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats: Volume IV: Early Essays
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats #04: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats: Volume IV: Early Essays
by W B Yeats
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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's... (read more)

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Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
by Adrienne Rich
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Winner of the National Book... (read more)

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Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart Signed Edition
Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart Signed Edition
by Carlos Reyes
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Carlos Reyes offers a lyrical and sometimes surreal vision of our world. The edgy tone of this collection represents a departure from his earlier work, but the omnibus quality of this book offers something for everyone. "Carlos ReyesÕ poetry is as clear... (read more)

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Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929
Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929
by Mary De Rachewiltz
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The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1885-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint; was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at... (read more)

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Betjeman: A Life
Betjeman: A Life
by A N Wilson
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John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of England, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet best known... (read more)

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A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations
A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations
by Jerome Rothenberg
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A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931 (1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an... (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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