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Taste of Cherry (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) by Kara Candito Publisher Comments In Kara Canditos prize-winning debut collection a “garish/human theatre” comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the “glitzy... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems by Gary Soto Publisher Comments For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. "New and Selected Poems" includes the best of his seven full-... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Red Light Was My Mind by Gary Charle Wilkens Publisher Comments Inspired by the culture, music, history and mythology of the Blues, The Red Light Was My Mind captures the tone, rhythms, sounds, images, and myths of the Mississippi Blues. Son House, Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Peetie... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Songs of Antonio Botto by Antonio Botto Publisher Comments António Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poète maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Can... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems by John Betjeman Publisher Comments Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. --from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New and Collected Poems (Harvest Book) by Richard Wilbur Publisher Comments This volume represents virtually all of Wilburs published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sincerest Flatteries: A Little Book of Imitations by Kurt Brown Publisher Comments Poetry. In this collection, Kurt Brown pays tribute to twenty-four leading poets through a masterful act of literary ventriloquism. Channeling the personas of luminaries Robert Bly, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, and others, the author's razor wit playfully... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tulips and Chimneys by e e cummings Synopsis Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ages of Chaos & Fury by Oswald Lewinter Publisher Comments These poems of exile and identity are a rendering and confrontation of modern life in poetry that is not ashamed to be poetry. Like his great model, Hart Crane, LeWinter seeks a language in which to capture the modern world and to celebrate its endurance... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual by Kathleen Connors Publisher Comments Here is the first book to bring long-overdue attention to Sylvia Plath's surprisingly accomplished visual art and to place that art in relation to her literary career. Plath trained as a studio artist before her sophomore year at Smith and her work in... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Laurier Poetry #12: Mobility of Light: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard Publisher Comments On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands. These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in Mobility of Light were chosen by Louise H. Forsyth to elicit... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yeats Reader Revised Edition by W B Yeats Publisher Comments Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Network (National Poetry) by Jena Osman Publisher Comments "Jena Osman subjects American history to a rhizomatic genealogy. What she finds . . . are the foundational, intersecting forces of slavery, finance, and empire at the heart of new world settlement."—Michael Davidson A practitioner of socio-literary... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments The Cinnamon Peeler brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from Michael Ondaatje's collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Ghost Soldiers: Poems by James Tate Staff Pick Intriguing. The most intense of Tate's writings, with political and environmental themes. Such wonderful, imaginative writing.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Dinners & Nightmares by Diane Di Prima Publisher Comments Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 by Albert Goldbarth Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice ... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood by Andrew Motion Synopsis Eschewing the confessional or critical tone of some memoirs, and the investigatory or elucidatory approaches of others, Motion strives to recreate the voice and vision of the boy he once was, taking care not to sully or distort with hindsight what is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover
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