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The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
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The End of Dreams: Poems
by Floyd Skloot
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by Roberto Bolano
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Pacific Northwest Reader
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Sestets: Poems
by Charles Wright
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book)
by Kenneth Rexroth
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The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982-1990
by Joe Bolton
Staff Pick
This is a collection of the work of a poet who committed suicide at twenty-eight, posthumously edited by his mentor Donald Justice. Loss marks these poems: Still, in the soft metallic resonance of twilight, The closest thing you have left to a soul Is... (read more)

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by Wallace Stevens
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Inscrutable poet-of-ideas Wallace Stevens is a deepening favorite of mine, and the reasons are here in his Collected Poems. Stevens's poems are timeless — his imagery is vivid and beautifully precise; his ideas are endlessly strange. A vital volume for... (read more)

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by Jennifer L. Knox
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by Kamau Daaood
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San Francisco Poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the founder of City Lights Books, and also a legendary Beat poet in his own right. This little collection consists of Ferlinghetti's poems about his beloved San Francisco."... (read more)

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by Jenny Boully
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The Book of Beginnings and Endings begins with the perfect visual complement on its cover: an installation by Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. An egg is a literal, biological, and metaphorical beginning. But an eggshell is an ending; emptied of its... (read more)

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Factory of Tears
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Jack Spicer
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely
by Claudia Rankine
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On Tact, and the Made Up World
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Michele Glazer's On Tact, and the Made Up World is outstanding. These are poems executed with live-wire exactitude; even where one cannot have certainty, Glazer presents her reader with the option that absence is certain enough. And there are absences... (read more)

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