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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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Eagle Pond by Donald Hall Publisher Comments This collection brings together for the first time all of Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire. It includes "Seasons at Eagle Pond" and "Here at Eagle Pond," the poem RDaylilies on the Hill, S and other essays.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni Publisher Comments A resonant, powerful collection from one of America’s preeminent poets. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Niagara River (Grove Press Poetry Series) by Kay Ryan Review “Ryans poems make a singular, angular music thats not quite like any youve heard, with sharp edges, densities of sound and syntax that can acquire the most mysterious clarity, and rhymes that come at you in the same off-kilter way that the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 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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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan Publisher Comments Kay Ryan's current appointment as the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States is the latest in a cascade of accolades that have finally caught up with a poet who has always found her own way—both in the poetry she writes and the quiet life she has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wordsworth a Life in Letters by Juliet Barker Synopsis Here, in his own words and those of his closest friends and family, is William Wordsworth. From his childhood to his death in 1850, this portrait reveals the rebellious schoolboy, the supporter of of the French Revolution, the radical poet, the revered... (read more) Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (University Center for Human Values) by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr Staff Pick The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. by Lyndall Gordon by Lyndall Gordon Publisher Comments A startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2009 by Elizabeth Alexander Publisher Comments On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Obama, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Pamphlet
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The Lives of the Heart: Poems by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Jane Hirschfield, the award-winning author of "The October Palace" and editor of "Women in Praise of the Sacred", presents a scintillating new volume of poems that will be published to coincide with the hardcover release of "Nine Gates", the author's... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark Doty Publisher Comments Mark Doty's Fire to Firecollects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rough Honey Signed Edition by Melissa Stein Publisher Comments Selected by Mark Doty from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Melissa Stein's debut Rough Honey is a startling, sensuous collection that examines the deep sources of art. These poems speak of fragility and power... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Poetry (Best American Poetry) by Kevin Young Publisher Comments Poetry phenomenon Kevin Young and renowned series editor David Lehman present the 2011 edition of the Best American Poetry series—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” ( Chicago Tribune ). With its high... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems and Four Plays by William B Yeats Publisher Comments Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 by Stephen Dunn Publisher Comments What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn's poems probe life's big... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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