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    The Ground: Poems

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374167080
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    Pity the Beautiful: Poems

    Dana Gioia 9781555976132
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    Intimate Things

    Albertine Williams 9781936513468
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    After the Point of No Return

    David Wagoner 9781556593826

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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
by Kevin Young
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Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship... (read more)

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    Collected Poems, 1909-1962

    T S Eliot 9780151189786
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    Crush (05 Edition)

    Richard Siken 9780300107890
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    Grasmere Journals

    Dorothy Wordsworth 9780192831309
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    Danger on Peaks

    Gary Snyder 9781593760410
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Collected Poems (85 Edition)
Collected Poems (85 Edition)
by Robert Hayden
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Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood... (read more)

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Eagle Pond
Eagle Pond
by Donald Hall
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This collection brings together for the first time all of Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire. It includes "Seasons at Eagle Pond" and "Here at Eagle Pond," the poem RDaylilies on the Hill, S and other essays.... (read more)

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Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his... (read more)

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Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Annie (edt) Finch
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The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku.   With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating... (read more)

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Good Poems, American Places
Good Poems, American Places
by Garrison Keillor
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P> Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English.... (read more)

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Shakespeare Complete Works Compact Edition
Shakespeare Complete Works Compact Edition
by Oxford
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The Oxford Shakespeare brings the modern reader closer to Shakespeare's plays as originally performed than has ever before been possible. Based on eight years of full-time research by a team of distinguished British and American scholars, this monumental... (read more)

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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the... (read more)

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May 29, 2012
Letters to a Young Poet
  1. Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  2. Jimmy Stewart and his poems
    by Jimmy Stewart
  3. American Primitive
    by Mary Oliver
  4. Lit: A Memoir (P.S.)
    by Mary Karr
  5. Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
    by Annie (edt) Finch

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