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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Publisher Comments In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Leonard Cohen Publisher Comments A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Hardcover
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Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments An extraordinary literary event: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy’s Collected Poems and the first-ever English translation of the poet’s thirty Unfinished Poems, both featuring the fullest... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor by Pablo Neruda Staff Pick A master at expressing the sublime melding of romantic and physical love, Neruda knows the agony, ache, joy, comfort, and desire that characterize our most heightened emotions.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Subjoyride: Selected Poems (Green Integer) by Elsa Von Freytag-loringhoven Publisher Comments The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, born Else Hildegard Ploetz, worked first as a model, posing for artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others. She also produced her own Dadaist art, using found materials and her own body and dress... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Complete Poems (Vintage) by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide Publisher Comments Winner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the English text meets the Japanese half way. The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems (P.S.) by Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul by Philip Dunn Publisher Comments The bestselling poet in America today, thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jalalu'ddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho About the Author Basho, the Japanese poet and diarist, was born in Iga-ueno near Kyoto in 1644. He spent his youth as companion to the son of the local lord, and with him he studied the writing of seventeen-syllable verse. In 1667 he moved to Edo (now Tokyo) where he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lyrics and Poems: 1997-2012 by John K. Samson Publisher Comments Often cited as one of the finest contemporary lyricists, singer, songwriter and poet John K. Samson captures the essential images of contemporary life. Whether on the streets of his beloved and bewildering hometown of Winnipeg, an outpost in Antarctica... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Half-finished Heaven : the Best Poems of Tomas Transtromer (01 Edition) by Tomas Transtromer Publisher Comments From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Directions Paperbook #345: Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda Synopsis Poems presented in Spanish and English record the Chilean author's love for his wife.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments From one of Europes most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents lifes improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania Edited With Commentaries Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Jerome Rothenberg Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli Publisher Comments Davie Street Translations is a witty, lively documentary-style series of poems about North American gay male culture. With versified musical machismo after the San Francisco Renaissance poets, riffing to the tune of mononymous deities Beyoncé,... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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