Collected Poems 1947-1997
by Allen Ginsberg


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Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry,... (read more)

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She
by Saul Williams


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Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting... (read more)

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John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
by John Berryman


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"Staggering, swaggering, intoxicating": John Berryman achieved a poetry where (in the words of editor Kevin Young) "protagonists search for a lover or friend, ancestor or listener with a recklessness that only Whitman allowed himself. ... Berryman... (read more)

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Facing the River
by Czeslaw Milosz


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Czeslaw Milosz did not believe he would ever return to the river valley in which he grew up. But in the spring of 1989, exactly fifty years after he left, the new government of independent Lithuania welcomed him back to that magical region of his... (read more)

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Come on In!: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski


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The fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet. Recent features in The New Yorker and on NPR's "Morning Edition" have proven that interest in Bukowski and his works... (read more)

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot


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Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.... (read more)

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Collected Poems 1947-1980
by Allen Ginsberg


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Author's Preface, Reader's Manual Arrangement of Text Herein author has assembled all his poetry books published to date rearranged in straight chronological order to compose an autobiography. Collected Poems includes seven volumes published in City... (read more)

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Down in My Heart (Northwest Reprints)
by William Stafford


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From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors in Arkansas and California for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army.As a pacifist, he worked on conservation projects for Civilian Public Service, an... (read more)

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Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath




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The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more)

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project)
by Gwendolyn Brooks


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Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks took her place as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century, distilling modernist style through the sounds and shapes of a variety of... (read more)

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Paradise Lost
by John Milton


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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)

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Essential Poets #23: Essential Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson


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An extraordinary tribute to one remarkable writer and woman from another.... (read more)

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Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Matsuo Basho


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Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by... (read more)

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Bandanna
by Paul Muldoon


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Following his highly-praised Shining Brow, which was also written as an opera libretto for the American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Paul Muldoon's Bandanna takes us into very different territory. Its action is set in a small town on the Mexican border; it... (read more)

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Day by Day
by Robert Lowell


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The last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.... (read more)

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Poet's Choice
by Edward Hirsch


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Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry.... (read more)

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Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)
by Walt Whitman


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This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman (1819–1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in... (read more)

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Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems
by Gary Soto


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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)

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