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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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Final Harvest : Emily Dickinson's Poems
Final Harvest : Emily Dickinson's Poems
by Emily / Johnson Dickinson, Thomas H.
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The richest and most authoritative selected volume of Emily Dickinson's poems Here is the best of Emily Dickinson's poetry -- 576 poems that fully and fairly represent not only the complete range of Dickinson's poetic genius but also the complexity... (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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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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Selected Poems
Selected Poems
by Robert Pinsky
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Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinskys work since his first book, Sadness and... (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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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
by Nikki Giovanni
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A resonant, powerful collection fromone of Americas preeminent poets. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns herpen to nature and the environment, the might and grace ofwomen, her battle with cancer, the relationships betweenmothers and... (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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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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Eagle Pond
Eagle Pond
by Donald Hall
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This collection brings together for the first time all of Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire. It includes "Seasons at Eagle Pond" and "Here at Eagle Pond," the poem RDaylilies on the Hill, S and other essays.... (read more)

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Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
by Billy Collins
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Billy Collins is America's poet. Funny, evocative, and subtly wise, he etches a new word in our hearts. Former Poet Laureate of the United States and frequent guest on National Public Radio, he may be our most prolific and energetic champion of poetry... (read more)

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What the Living Do: Poems
What the Living Do: Poems
by Marie Howe
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Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do... (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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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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The Heights of Macchu Picchu: Bilingual Edition
The Heights of Macchu Picchu: Bilingual Edition
by Pablo Neruda
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the... (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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American Poets Project #18: Edith Wharton: Selected Poems
American Poets Project #18: Edith Wharton: Selected Poems
by Edith Wharton
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Three provocative, gorgeously written novels from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Wharton's engaging tales of love, lust, morals and manners have captured the imaginations of millions of fans throughout the years, both through... (read more)

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Pocket Poets #56: Nine Alexandrias
Pocket Poets #56: Nine Alexandrias
by Semezd Mehmedinovic
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Translated from the Bosnian with an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response... (read more)

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