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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991
by Adrienne Rich
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In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.... (read more)

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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Leonard Cohen
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A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved... (read more)

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Awake (Lynx House Book)
Awake (Lynx House Book)
by Dorianne Laux
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First published in 1990, Awake marked the stunning debut of poet Dorianne Laux. This much sought-after collection, introduced by Philip Levine, is now back in print in a handsome new edition. The recipient of two Best American Poetry prizes, an Editor's... (read more)

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Poems New and Collected
Poems New and Collected
by Wislawa Szymborska
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Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This... (read more)

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Love Is a Dog From Hell : Poems, 1947-1977 (79 Edition)
Love Is a Dog From Hell : Poems, 1947-1977 (79 Edition)
by Charles Bukowski
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Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.... (read more)

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Collected Poems
Collected Poems
by Philip Larkin
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One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. Collected Poems brings together not only all his books--The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun... (read more)

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Collected Poems
Collected Poems
by Jack Gilbert
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Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.   There is no one... (read more)

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Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
by Mary Oliver
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Joy is not made to be a crumb, writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be made out of the dust of stars, we are of the world she captures here so... (read more)

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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
by C P Cavafy
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An extraordinary literary event: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy’s Collected Poems and the first-ever English translation of the poet’s thirty Unfinished Poems, both featuring the fullest... (read more)

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Lyrical Ballads (07 Edition)
Lyrical Ballads (07 Edition)
by William Wordsworth
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Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern... (read more)

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American Primitive
American Primitive
by Mary Oliver
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The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and... (read more)

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Dream Work : New Poems (86 Edition)
Dream Work : New Poems (86 Edition)
by Mary Oliver
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Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of... (read more)

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A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
by Wendell Berry
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For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sunday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems. A small collection of Betty's Sabbath poems was published in 1987, but A Timbered Choir gathers all of these... (read more)

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The Apothecary's Heir (National Poetry)
The Apothecary's Heir (National Poetry)
by Julianne Buchsbaum
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Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her "rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise" (Reginald Shepherd); "there is something of Wallace Stevens in her... (read more)

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Good Poems
Good Poems
by Garrison Keillor
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A must-have collection for fans of Garrison Keillor and all lovers of... good poems. 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... (read more)

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
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The experience is her own--as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother--but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of... (read more)

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My Favorite Warlord (Poets, Penguin)
My Favorite Warlord (Poets, Penguin)
by Eugene Gloria
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye) The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The... (read more)

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Facts about the Moon: Poems
Facts about the Moon: Poems
by Dorianne Laux
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Philip Levine aptly characterizes Dorianne Laux's writing as "gritty, tough, lyrical poems." In her newest book, Facts about the Moon, Laux writes of young women learning to be alive in the world. In the wonderful short poem "Moon in the Window," the... (read more)

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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
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"I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more)

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Dismantling the Hills (Pitt Poetry)
Dismantling the Hills (Pitt Poetry)
by Michael Mcgriff
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WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE Dismantling the Hills is a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an... (read more)

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