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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Art Of...) by Dean Young Publisher Comments In Dean Youngs sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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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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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Narrative Poems, the Pel (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Loose Woman: Poems by Sandra Cisneros Publisher Comments A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. "Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper."--... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Liar's Club by Mary Karr From Powells.com Mary Karr is a poet who writes wry, punchy, blackly humorous prose. Her harrowing childhood is brought to Technicolor life in her memoir The Liars' Club. A dazzling bestseller, The Liars' Club was selected one of the best books of 1995 by... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Could Tell You Stories by Patricia Hampl Staff Pick This book of essays, focusing on the idea of memoir and memory, fell into my hands rather by accident; I started reading somewhat casually and was very happily drawn in. Hampl's voice is lovely: elegant and clear, she works through the concepts of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic Publisher Comments In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart of a Woman (Oprah's Book Club) by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Bestselling author and poetess Maya Angelous profoundly moving personal story is revealed in these, the first four volumes of her continuing memoir. Set includes 1 trade paperback edition each of: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Gather Together In My... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing by Kenneth Koch Publisher Comments Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks, Baptisim by blood, water, or desire is necessary for salvation in Roman Catholic tradition, and baptism of desire in... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Rita Dove Publisher Comments Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens Staff Pick Inscrutable poet-of-ideas Wallace Stevens is a deepening favorite of mine. This, despite the fact that I don't always understand his poems. This, despite the fact that even when I think I might understand, the precision of a world glimpsed in a "jar from... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr Publisher Comments In her fourth collection of poems, self-described black-belt sinner Mary Karr traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote “Give me chastity, Lord&#... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price: $0.95 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) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Name Here: Poems by John Ashbery Publisher Comments I got kind of frenzied after the waitinghad stopped, but now am cool as a suburban gardenin some lost city. When it came time for my speechI could think of nothing, of course.I gave a little talk about the onion - how its flavorinspires us, its shape... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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