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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: $5.95 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tender Buttons (97 Edition) by Gertrude Stein Staff Pick Stein continues her experiments with a "continuous present" in this classic work written in 1912, emphasizing sounds, rhythms, and repetitions over and against "sense." To live in this state is "to begin again and again," to "use everything." She sums it... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop Staff Pick Bishop is known for her detailed and precise observations and her subtle yet piercing insights into the world of memory and emotions. Anyone interested in contemporary poetry shouldn't fail to check her out.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver Staff Pick With themes that are deceptively simple yet immense in view, Mary Oliver's poetry is a constant surprise. Time spent immersed in her language is time pleasurably spent.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 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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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today."... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine Staff Pick There are little televisions throughout Don't Let Me Be Lonely. Really. Little photographs of televisions, sometimes depicting widely broadcast images from the news, sometimes only static, are interspersed throughout this long prose poem. The images come... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry by David Lehman Staff Pick The Oxford Book of American Poetry is a landmark event in publishing — it's been thirty years since the last edition, and David Lehman has shown Oxford's customary care in selecting poets of the highest caliber. Going back as far as Anne Bradstreet and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Mercury by Ariana Reines Staff Pick This book reads like a story petered out in clear unpretentious style between long works which weave together a sense of communication, as if with a lover, a friend, or oneself. Reines has an uncanny ability to make the mundane a powerful source of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lit: A Memoir 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 $25.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford Staff Pick I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems by Billy Collins Staff Pick Billy Collins is America's poet. Funny, evocative, and subtly wise, he etches a new word in our hearts. Former Poet Laureate of the United States and frequent guest on National Public Radio, he may be our most prolific and energetic champion of poetry... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dream Songs by John Berryman Staff Pick I've read the poems in The Dream Songs many, many times over and I can't say I fully understand them. I can say, with full confidence, that in their own strange way they are genius. In his introduction, W. S. Merwin uses the adjectives "intimate, elusive,... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg Staff Pick I think Schomburg may be my new favorite Portland poet. While reading The Man Suit, I felt both an eerie sadness and joyful wonder. These little poems, with their odd recurring themes and sober delivery, are full of untraceable magic and humor. After... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chronic (09 Edition) by D. A. Powell Staff Pick I had the good fortune of hearing D. A. Powell read from his latest book, Chronic, and it was one of the better poetry readings I've ever been to. He was intelligent, witty, funny and sincere — and luckily his poems are, too. Powell shies away from... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams Staff Pick An inspiration to the Beats, Williams was, and still is, one of the most important American poets. This collection is a perfect introduction to his work.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paterson by William Carlos Williams Staff Pick Literary critic Marjorie Perloff once made the claim that when the history of free verse is written, William Carlos Williams will be a primary figure. Such were the words that turned my attention back to Williams. But it wasn't until a friend sent me a... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa Staff Pick Relatively unknown during his lifetime (having published only a single book of poems), Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) has since been recognized as a literary genius. A national hero in his native Portugal, he developed a style of writing based on the use of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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