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Behold Kaua'i by Dawn Frase Kawahara Publisher Comments This book invites you to an island described by many as paradise. Behold Kauai is designed to bring you lasting enjoyment and insight through the poet's eyes, and a sense of this far-flung and ancient island in modern times and from a Hawaiian cultural... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover 
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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall Publisher Comments Donald Halls remarkable life in poetry — a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 — comes alive in this richly detailed, self-revealing memoir. Halls invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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New and Selected Poems (Irish Studies) by Pat Boran Publisher Comments First published in 2005, New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran presents a large selection of work by one of the best-known of the younger Irish poets. Introduced by Dennis O'Driscoll, for whom Boran is a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hardscrabble by Kevin Mcfadden Publisher Comments Playful and rich, formally inventive, funny and wry, Kevin McFadden's poems examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language. Transforming empty spans of interstate and inconspicuous small towns into landscapes fertile with wordplay... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill Publisher Comments Best known as a poet, James Merrill is also an accomplished novelist, and in The (Diblos) Notebook artfully lays bare the process of writing a novel. A young American writer keeps a notebook that records at one and the same time a series of events on the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unrecounted by W G Sebald Publisher Comments A book of poems and images from one of our most admired European writers, W.G. Sebald, and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Original Fire: Selected and New Poems by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mercurochrome: New Poems by Wanda Coleman Publisher Comments Coleman's courageous, impassioned voice, defiantly affirming itself in the face of social injustice and institutional dehumanization, rings out clearer than ever in her new book, Mercurochrome. So does her sensuous, vivid, tactile "verbal mandala": "love... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Hilda Doolittle Publisher Comments It is only now, more than a hundred years after her birth and more than twenty-five years after her death, that H.D. is frequently called a "major artist." The new Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of H.D.'s poetry, is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike Publisher Comments A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book. The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Master of Disguises by Charles Simic Publisher Comments The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall InThe Back Chamber,Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Coleridge Darker Reflections 1804 1834 by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments Paperback edition of Holmes's second volume on the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A vivid picture of a transitional period in the life of one of our greatest poets.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters by Zhaoming Qian Publisher Comments No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 with CD (Audio) by Donald Hall Publisher Comments White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.< BR> < BR> One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly Publisher Comments John Keats"s famous epitaph'"'Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. In this close narrative study, Stanley Plumly meditates on the chances for poetic immortality... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tennyson's Legends of King Arthur: Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson Publisher Comments Published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Medicine Show (Phoenix Poets) by Tom Yuill Publisher Comments In Medicine Show, inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Color of Mourning by David M Parsons Publisher Comments The title of this collection of poems employs the word mourning in a manner that expands the strict definition of the word and crosses the ordinary boundaries of the senses, where color, time, and place are triggers to memory and experience. The reader... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Losing Season by Jack Ridl Synopsis Losing Season explores the often unsettlingly central role that sports play in American life. From the star player to the kid who never gets in a game to the town religious fanatic to the disgruntled parent--all have their say. Even if you haven't lived... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dancing with a Cowboy by Sara Rath Publisher Comments The poems in Dancing with a Cowboy are charged with memories and hope, of family, old loves, nostalgia, and regret. Searching for shades of meaning that lurk around old, familiar corners, the poems are constructed from clues found there. Memories... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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