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The Broken String by Grace Schulman Publisher Comments One of the finest poets writing today, Grace Schulman finds order in art and nature that enables her to stand fast in a threatened world. The title refers to Itzhak Perlmans performance of a violin concerto with a snapped string, which inspires a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Rhapsodomancy by Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff Publisher Comments Exploring the two phonic alphabets of shorthand and Unifon as image, these poems playfully interrogate the relationship between voice and visual poetry. Can pictures represent voice? Can unutterable writing express thought? Rhapsodomancy offers an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Colosseum: Poems by Katie Ford Publisher Comments The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night” (The New York Times Book Review) If you respect the dead and recall where they died by this time tomorrow there will... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Abstraktion Und Einfuhlung by Percival Everett Publisher Comments “Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.”—Publishers Weekly “I think Percival Everett is a genius. . . . He’s a brilliant... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Littlefoot by Charles Wright Publisher Comments Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this countrys most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrators search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on “the other side of my own death.”... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998 by Linda Pastan Publisher Comments This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Poems & Flowers by Etta Wolpert Synopsis Life is a mystery, and this charming collection illustrates the point marvelously. Sketches of flowers, as well as brief poems, highlight this beautiful book--which ponders the meaning of life.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Woman Reading to the Sea by Lisa Williams Publisher Comments "Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. . . . Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds--the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier. . . . This slender volume constitutes a journey."--Joyce Carol Oates, Barnard... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande by Jimmy Santiago Baca Publisher Comments In a Whitmanesque voice that aims toward American universals, while remaining grounded in his Chicano ancestry, Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the cycles of the seasons and the cycles of life in beautiful and accessible poems. In Spring Poems Along the Rio... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Usher by B H Fairchild Publisher Comments From Manhattan to the rural Midwest—one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America. Employing dramatic monologues, among other forms, Usher embraces a range of subject matter and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. At its... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Animals All Are Gathering (Pitt Poetry) by Bradley Paul Review “This is a book of ‘Instructions,’ a ‘How To’ book, a ‘Guide’ to the anarchic carnival of everyday life. It is a wicked book smelling of ‘scrapple’ and the ‘puke of poetry.’ And yet... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longinglyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Romanticism: Poems by April Bernard Publisher Comments Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of high Romanticism: the tragedy and gallantry of the individual’s life journey, the appeal of revolution and violence, the beckoning forces of Nature, and the estrangement from but constant... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Troubled by Rm Vaughn Synopsis Everyone falls in love with his or her therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? Troubled is the poetic account of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Another Creature by Pamela Gemin Publisher Comments 'In her quietly ferocious poems, Gemin reminds us again and again of the essential strangeness that lies within the domestic. Her examinations of the quotidian always lead to surprising and pathos-laden reckonings'"with the self, with the past, and with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wing Beaten Air My Life and My Writing by Yorifumi Yaguchi Publisher Comments Acclaimed Japanese poet, Yorifumi Yaguchi, has turned his writing attention to telling baldly what he experienced as a child growing up on the island of Honshu in the late 1930s and '40s. His piercing and disarming prose takes us to his family's... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Honey and Salt by Carl Sandburg Publisher Comments In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Laurier Poetry #10: All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek by Louis Dudek Publisher Comments A passionate believer in the power of art--and especially poetry--to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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