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by Seamus Heaney
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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by Elizabeth Bishop
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
by Mary Oliver
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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)

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A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry /
by Czeslaw 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)

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by Roberto Bolano
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
by Anne Carson
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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)

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Meditations in an Emergency
by Frank O'Hara
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by Sylvia Plath
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How We Became Human : New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (02 Edition)
by Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo's poems call to her sisters, her brothers, and the earth collectively and invite them to reveal and release a woven energy. This collection offers a twenty-six-year glimpse into an amazing span of achievements.... (read more)

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New European Poets
by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer
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New European Poets is a collection whose publication is long overdue. Where else can you read contemporary poetry from Malta, Hungary, Iceland, and Belarus, not to mention Ireland, Italy, and Poland, all between the same two covers? The editors have done... (read more)

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