Facing the River
by Czeslaw Milosz


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A poet of immense moral authority, Milosz writes with the amazing clarity that issues from a precise vision. In these later poems, the poems of older age, he takes a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the 20th century; yet despite the... (read more)

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The Dik-Dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works
by Anne Tardos


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At every level of Anne Tardos's paintings, films, poetry, and cross-genre work, the familiar is engaged while acknowledging the violently contested landscape of what we think we know. Connection is the dominant mode of composition. A brand new vernacular... (read more)

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World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell (Us)
by Nicholas Murray


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Andrew Marvell (1621-78) enjoys an unrivaled reputation based on the popularity of poems like To His Coy Mistress, yet his life has often seemed puzzling. In the first fully comprehensive biography since the 1960s, the poet emerges as an important figure... (read more)

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The Road Is Wider Than Long: An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938; Series of Surrealist Poetry; London Gallery Editions
by Roland Penrose


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During July and August 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller took a journey through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter and a writer; Miller was a studio assistant to Man Ray, a muse to several artists, and a brilliant... (read more)

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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
by Jack Kerouac


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Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create... (read more)

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Things My Mother Never Told Me
by Blake Morrison


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Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of... (read more)

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Selected Poems (P.S.)
by Gwendolyn Brooks


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The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm... (read more)

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Selected Poems
by Gwendolyn Brooks


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The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet and winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize that represents her technical mastery, her compassionate and illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, and her warm humanity.... (read more)

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Howl Original Draft Facsimile Transcript
by Allen Ginsberg


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Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howlis the poet's own re-creation of... (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.<BR>... (read more)

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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath


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Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.... (read more)

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Haiku Landscapes
by Stephen Addiss


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Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson--all written on themes of the mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged seascapes of Japan--are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems... (read more)

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Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
by Sam Hamill


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Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual... (read more)

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Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition
by Sylvia Plath


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"In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert... (read more)

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Sinners Welcome: Poems
by Mary Karr


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Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this — her fourth collection of poems — traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote... (read more)

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Wordsworth a Life in Letters
by Juliet Barker


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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)

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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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Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski


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Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and... (read more)

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