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Book of Medicines (93 Edition) by Linda Hogan Publisher Comments Poetry. Native American studies. Steeped in her Native American heritage, Linda Hogan's latest collection of poems, THE BOOK OF MEDICINES, brings together stunning lore-like imagery and Native female spirituality. Histories of the earth, its natural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong Publisher Comments Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz Publisher Comments "I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire (Camino del Sol) by Xochiquetzal Candelaria Publisher Comments Using both lyrical and narrative forms, these concise verses explore a family history set against the larger backdrop of Mexican history, immigration, and landscapes of the Southwest. The poets delicate touch lends these poems an organic quality that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary #70: Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems by Heid E. Erdrich Publisher Comments Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich's three previous poetry collections. Erdrich's new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba (Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Umberto Saba Review "Handsomely produced. . . . Clearly a labor of love."—Susan Stewart, The Nation Rosanna Warren - The New... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Flood Song (09 Edition) by Sherwin Bitsui Publisher Comments Poetry. Native American Studies. Native traditions scrape against contemporary urban life in FLOOD SONG, an interweaving painterly sequence populated with wrens and reeds, bricks and gasoline. Poet Sherwin Bitsui is at the forefront of a new generation... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Sister Life and the Zhivago Poems (Northwestern World Classics) by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Synopsis Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he is most celebrated as a poet. The two poetry collections offered here in translation are chronological and thematic bookends, and they capture Pasternaks... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Elsewhere: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book) by Kyoko Uchida Synopsis In Elsewhere, Kyoko Uchida unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and later passages across oceans and continents, seasons and languages—spoken or otherwise—mapping the geographies of longing, loss, grief, and conflict. These poems are... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 by Winfried Georg Sebald Publisher Comments A publishing landmark—the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century's literary masters German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Selected Lyrics (Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Theophile Gautier Review "A key work in the French lyric canon. . . . We are indebted to Norman Shapiro, who is nothing less than the dean of contemporary American translators engaged with French poetry. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, his mastery of all facets of... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Pier by Janine Oshiro Publisher Comments Seeking to identify the self that straddles both spiritual and physical worlds, Janine Oshiro's multidimensional poems are borderlands—wild and uncontained—where vision and illusion become crucial to survival. Pier is a place of frenzied... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Doubters and Dreamers (Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary) by Janice Gould Publisher Comments Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeleys annual Big Game against Stanford: “Whats a debacle, Mom?” This innocent but... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem by Philip Lee Williams Synopsis William Bartram's Travels, published in 1791, remains a seminal book for understanding the American South, its flora, fauna, and people. Now, acclaimed poet and novelist Philip Lee Williams has written an epic poem that follows the young William Bartram... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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June Fourth Elegies (Lannan Translation Selection) by Liu Xiaobo Publisher Comments The first publication of the poetry of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo, with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Liu Xiaobo has become the foremost symbol of the struggle for human rights in China. He was a leading activist during the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi by Gennady Aygi Publisher Comments Gennady Aygi's poems are as pleasurable for the uniqueness and clarity of their crafting as they are for the spirit they express. and — the fields — rise — into the sky from each star — there is — a course to every other —... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Song I Sing by Bao Phi Publisher Comments When it feels like no one lets you live at your own volume You sing. Dynamic and eye-opening, this debut by a National Poetry Slam finalist critiques an America sleepwalking through its days and explores the contradictions of race and class in America... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Notturno (Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Gabriele D'annunzio Publisher Comments Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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American Copia: An Immigrant Epic by Javier O Huerta Publisher Comments This inventive combination of poetry fiction and non-fiction in a mix of English and Spanish creates an epic story of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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