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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments 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 in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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News of the World by Philip Levine Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Two Haloed Mourners by Bernadette Mayer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bandanna by Paul Muldoon Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tango by Leslie Scalapino Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Staff Pick A luminary of American poetry, Emily Dickinson is canonized for good reason. Her poems are vital, wildly eccentric, and filled with her rich and complex imagination. Absolutely essential.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Door with CD (Audio) by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems by T S Eliot Publisher Comments Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poets most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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John Dryden by John Dryden Synopsis 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) Your price: $3.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dik-Dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works by Anne Tardos Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell (Us) by Nicholas Murray Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith Publisher Comments A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders. “What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.&rdquo... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland Publisher Comments The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissism Means To Me and Donkey Gospel In Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. (Revised Ed.) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies) by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Purchase in the White Botanica by Piero Heliczer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.25 Your price: $2.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Publisher Comments Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books--Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed--along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf. In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the everything flows and steady go of the world. --from "Perch" Seamus Heaney's... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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