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The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead
Eleni SikelianosEleni Sikelianos 9781566893244
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Diving Into the Wreck : Poems 1971-72 (13 Edition)
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich 9780393346015
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Mezzanines
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Poems of Love and Life for Cancer
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City Lights Spotlight #9: Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012
Lisa JarnotLisa Jarnot 9780872865983
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Poems of Love and Life for Pisces
Julia ParkerJulia Parker 9781742757735

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Trances of the Blast
by Mary Ruefle
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Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
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Collected Poems
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Delights & Shadows
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems: The Centenary Edition
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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
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Book of Blues (Penguin Poets)
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Silverchest
by Carl Phillips
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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... (read more)

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