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The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr by Daniel Defoe Publisher Comments Drunk'nness, the Darling Favourite of Hell, Chose Germany to Rule; and Rules so well, No Subjects more obsequiously obey, None please so well, or are so pleas'd as they. The cunning Artist manages so well, He lets them Bow to Heav'n, and Drink to Hell... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Self-Evidence: New and Selected Poems by Pamela White Hadas Publisher Comments In her first book of poetry since 1983, Pamela White Hadas has selected the best of her already published work and combined it with poems never before collected. With playful originality and virtuosity, Hadas weaves tapestries of women's loves and labors,... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen Publisher Comments Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey of his own in which the far boundaries of love and murder, madness and sex are sensually explored. His is the tale of a disordered pilgrimage to H. Roivas (Heavenly Savior) in which the deranged... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $13.00 Your price: $5.50 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 $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover Thrift Editions) by Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher Comments Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined his awareness of material sensuousness with the asceticism of religious devotion. His collected poems, published posthumously in 1918, exercised a profound influence on modern poetry... (read more) Your price: $3.50 New - Trade Paper
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100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Philip Smith Publisher Comments Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats... (read more) Your price: $2.50 New - Trade Paper 
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Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection by Yuzuru Miura Publisher Comments Westerners have long been fascinated by haiku, the traditional Japanese verse form composed of seventeen syllables. These miniature masterpieces can express a dramatic scene or philosophical idea in a single line of verse.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Watermark by Joseph Brodsky Publisher Comments In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters--each recalling a specific episode from one of his many... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Book of Psalms (93 Edition) by Bible Publisher Comments Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith fundamental to both Christian and Jewish liturgies. Its English translation in the King James Version of the Bible (1611), from which this edition is... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments "In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mammoth Book of Filthy Limericks (Mammoth Book of) by Glyn Rees Publisher Comments This hilariously inappropriate collection of rhymes is sure to provide ammunition to use at the office or even at a party among friends. You’ll never have to repeat a line from this collection of more than 2,000 dirty verses. Perfect for St. Patty&#... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry and Commitment: An Essay by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Pamphlet
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Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems by Elizabeth Spires Publisher Comments Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Immortality by Mike Oconnor Publisher Comments Poetry. The poems of Immortality fall into three sections: "Immortality," "Icarus," and "American Spirit." The title poem--a long innovative work that first appeared in Narrative Magazine--weaves together several stories drawing on biography, history... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf. In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the everything flows and steady go of the world. --from "Perch" Seamus Heaney's... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems by Khalil Gibran Publisher Comments "The Storm" gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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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Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties by Allen Ginsberg Synopsis < div> & #8220; Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in America in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that went into making it is recorded in these Journals.& #8221; & #8211; &... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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