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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Publisher Comments In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Cecile Rich Synopsis "Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry by Rita Dove Publisher Comments Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver Staff Pick With themes that are deceptively simple yet immense in view, Mary Oliver's poetry is a constant surprise. Time spent immersed in her language is time pleasurably spent.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry Synopsis In Wendell Berry's upcoming The New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as "a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Head Off and Split: Poems by Nikky Finney Publisher Comments The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off and Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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What the Living Do : Poems (98 Edition) by Marie Howe Publisher Comments Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Poems, American Places by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Prophet Pocket Edition by Kahlil Gibran Publisher Comments Kahlil Gibrans masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Hardcover
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Space, in Chains (Lannan Literary Selections) by Laura Kasischke Publisher Comments "Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down." The New York Times Book Review "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - 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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Diving Into the Wreck : Poems 1971-1972 (73 Edition) by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach Publisher Comments James Longenbach is the author of three poetry collections, including Draft of a Letter; five works of criticism, including The Resistance to Poetry, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost Publisher Comments The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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