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Between Angels by Stephen Dunn Synopsis "Between Angels affirms what we are capable of in our best moments--grace, tenderness, love--while acknowledging that the human heart can be merciless. It's a book of great breadth."--Gregory Djanikian, Philadelphia... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Art of Sinking in Poetry (Oneworld Classics) by Alexander Pope Publisher Comments Written in 1727, this satirical volume was one of Alexander Popes contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club, a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shell by Olive Senior Publisher Comments In her fourth poetry collection, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world and the power of her Caribbean heritage. She guides us through a realm of miniature elegance—that of shells in their abundant manifestations... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Radium Watch Dial Painters by D S Butterworth Publisher Comments "The Radium Watch Dial Painters is a book of sheer power and range, poems that burn in brilliant flashes and with searing luminescence. There are great stories in here, flurries of fresh images and graceful turns of music and wit. Above all, you find Dan... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently by Bill Berkson Publisher Comments Poetry. Bill Berkson has worked as a poet, critic, editor and publisher, teacher, and curator for over half a century. Steve Evans has described his recent poetry as that of "a serene master of the syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Harvest Book) by T S Eliot Publisher Comments An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliots intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. “Enough ferocious... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Salt Lick: A Retrospective of Poetry by Glenna Luschei Publisher Comments Poetry. Forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections--this is the lyric gift of Glenna Luschei, poet, editor, small press pioneer, and devoted friend of literature. This collection of her life's work reminds us that it continues, unflagging in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Repose by Adam Getty Publisher Comments Repose, the striking new work by award-winning poet Adam Getty, is technically flawless, philosophically refreshing and naturally phrased. Repose is an exploration of the definition of cultural freedom; it is a pointed look at an obsession with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov Publisher Comments From Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most talented translators of all time, comes Verses and Versions -- at long last, the realization of Nabokov's wish to collect and publish his poetry translations with selections fromEvgeniy Baratï... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The World in Place of Itself by Bill Rasmovicz Publisher Comments With fervent physical and metaphysical detail, and narrating from an unexpected angle of perception, Bill Rasmovicz plumbs the world ghosting this one, exposing the true nature of the unconscious—a superconscious whose language is startlingly apt... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Green Integer #167: Luce a Cavallo by Therese Bachand Publisher Comments Focusing on important films of the 1960's and 70's, both Hollywood productionS and foreign film--works which Bachand argues helped, ironically, to save the studio system through their directorial integrity and independent mindedness--Bachand deconstructs... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Human Nature by Gary Soto Publisher Comments Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Gary Soto's eleventh book of poems for adults, HUMAN NATURE is full of arresting images and surprising scenarios--and probably more uncanny opening lines than in any book you'll read all year. These poems pretend to be... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination by Adam Zagajewski Publisher Comments In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short literary sketches, leading contemporary Polish poet Adam Zagajewski contends with the effects of coming of age, both artistically and intellectually, in a totalitarian regime. No... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Worldly Country: New Poems by John Ashbery Publisher Comments < p> Thrill of a Romance < /p> < p> It's different when you have hiccups. < br> Everything is& #8212; so many glad hands competing < br> for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot, < br> or just a blast of silence... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Displacement by Leslie Harrison Publisher Comments Leslie Harrisons debut collection marks the arrival of an assured new poetic voice. Chosen as the winner of the 2008 Bakeless Prize in poetry by guest judge Eavan Boland, Displacement addresses questions of place and, of course, displacement — from... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mama Poems by Maurice Kenny Publisher Comments “The world [Maurice] Kenny opens for us is personal, yet never sentimental. It is a world in which long-dead relatives can appear when they are needed; in which the drum sounds in rituals of curing; a world vibrant with the natural landscape... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beginning of the Fields by Angela Shaw Publisher Comments Poetry. Angela Shaw's luxuriant verse explores still moments in the lives of diverse subjects. These poems speak compellingly of clothing and courtesans, marriage and motherhood, interiors and landscapes of the poet's native West Virginia.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs from God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quantum Lyrics: Poems by A Van Jordan Publisher Comments Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, A. Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, comic-book superheroes (The Green Lantern, The Atom), along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Terra Incognita #10: K.B.: The Suspect by Marceli Martinaitis Publisher Comments “To the pantheon of East European poets—Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub—we must now add Martinaitis. ‘K.B.,’ the poet’s common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the post-Soviet era, one... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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