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Behold Kaua'i
Behold Kaua'i
by Dawn Frase Kawahara
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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)

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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
by Donald Hall
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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)

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New and Selected Poems (Irish Studies)
New and Selected Poems (Irish Studies)
by Pat Boran
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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)

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Hardscrabble
Hardscrabble
by Kevin Mcfadden
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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)

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The (Diblos) Notebook
The (Diblos) Notebook
by James Merrill
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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)

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Unrecounted
Unrecounted
by W G Sebald
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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)

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Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
by Louise Erdrich
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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)

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Mercurochrome: New Poems
Mercurochrome: New Poems
by Wanda Coleman
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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)

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Selected Poems
Selected Poems
by Hilda Doolittle
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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)

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Endpoint and Other Poems
Endpoint and Other Poems
by John Updike
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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)

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Master of Disguises
Master of Disguises
by Charles Simic
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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)

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Coleridge Darker Reflections 1804 1834
Coleridge Darker Reflections 1804 1834
by Richard Holmes
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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)

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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
by Zhaoming Qian
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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)

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White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 with CD (Audio)
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 with CD (Audio)
by Donald Hall
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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)

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Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
by Stanley Plumly
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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)

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Tennyson's Legends of King Arthur: Idylls of the King
Tennyson's Legends of King Arthur: Idylls of the King
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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)

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Medicine Show (Phoenix Poets)
Medicine Show (Phoenix Poets)
by Tom Yuill
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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)

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Color of Mourning
Color of Mourning
by David M Parsons
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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)

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Losing Season
Losing Season
by Jack Ridl
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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)

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Dancing with a Cowboy
Dancing with a Cowboy
by Sara Rath
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 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)

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