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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: $8.00 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: $10.50 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reenactments: A Memoir by Nick Flynn Staff Pick As with Nick Flynn's other major prose works, The Reenactments is a compelling, vignette-style memoir. Flynn's 2004 Another Bullshit Night in Suck City was adapted into a film (Being Flynn) earlier this year, starring Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 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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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: $6.50 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) Your price: $7.95 New - Trade Paper
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature) by Anne Carson Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the Bittersweet... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Luminous Things : an International Anthology of Poetry (96 Edition) by Czeslaw (ed.) Milosz Staff Pick A fine collection of Milosz's favorite poems, A Book of Luminous Things casts a wide net over time and place. It's at once an excellent book for novice readers of poetry and long-time admirers.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski Staff Pick Though some may find Bukowski's poetry on the pedestrian side, I actually like it for being filled with direct, astute, and often persnickety observations about the world unfolding and evolving around him. Check out this practitioner of "dirty realism... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound Staff Pick Welcome to Ezuversity. No tuition and just this one textbook. "ABC or gradus ad Parnassum, for those who like to learn."... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems (08 Edition) by Sylvia Plath Staff Pick The dark and tragic tones of American poet Sylvia Plath cannot be denied — her persona and infamous death ensure this — but her poems are also by turns playful and deeply haunting, and this too must be admitted. A stunning collection.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 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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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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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: $9.98 Sale - 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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