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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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Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Annie (edt) Finch Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $13.50 New - Hardcover
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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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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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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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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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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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Swan: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell Publisher Comments "New poetry by D. A. Powell, the best poet of his generation and arguably the most important poet under fifty" Time Out New York) In D. A. Powells fifth book of poetry, the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Shakespeare Complete Works Compact Edition by Oxford Publisher Comments 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) List Price $39.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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World Is Round by Nikky Finney Publisher Comments Poetry. African American Studies. Charged, visionary poems from Nikky Finney, published by InnerLight Publishing out of Atlanta, Georgia. "A poem, when it works, is a rolling realization of ideas and emotion that takes you somewhere you've never been... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Poetry (Best American Poetry) by Kevin Young Publisher Comments Poetry phenomenon Kevin Young and renowned series editor David Lehman present the 2011 edition of the Best American Poetry series—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” ( Chicago Tribune ). With its high... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yale Series of Younger Poets #105: Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson Publisher Comments Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, astute... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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