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The Apothecary's Heir (National Poetry) by Julianne Buchsbaum Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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My Favorite Warlord (Poets, Penguin) by Eugene Gloria Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Ground: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips Publisher Comments A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice A poignant and terse vision of New York City unfolds in Rowan Ricardo Phillipss debut book of poetry. A work of rare beauty and lyric grace, The Ground is an entire world, drawn and revealed... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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Listen with Your Eyes: The Poet Tree of Strainj by , Strainj Publisher Comments "LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES" is the most conscientious yet simplistic reflection of society's cascade written in poetic rhyme that an author can ever give a reader. The script in this book is written with bold honestly often in contemporary street lingo... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Complete Poems (Vintage) by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World by Adam Clay Publisher Comments “One of the best young American poets writing today, Adam Clay engages fully with the natural world, gracefully dredging up the mysteries embedded in modern life—paper dolls clipped from the morning news, the ringing ears of lightning-strike... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Pity the Beautiful: Poems by Dana Gioia Publisher Comments The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets O Lord of indirection and ellipses, ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction. Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call. --from “Prophecy” Pity... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Slow Lightning (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Eduardo C Corral Publisher Comments Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braiding... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Specks by Michael Mcclure Publisher Comments Specks assumes the form of a blastula, offering a poetic model of embryonic development that arises from the cellular division known as "cleavage," transcending the proprioceptive methodology of Charles Olson and entering an Aristotelian realm of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Percussion Grenade by Joyelle Mcsweeney Publisher Comments Music and drama as weapons of productive destruction. This collection by prize-winning, massively influential literary star Joyelle McSweeney explodes the twinned and dangerous notions that images are pretty, and that they land predictably. Power... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exit, Civilian (National Poetry) by Idra Novey Publisher Comments In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Folding Star and Other Poems (Lannan Translation Selections) by Jacek Gutorow Publisher Comments "We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these, and enjoy their insight and wry wit."––Mary Jo Bang In his triumphant collection The Folding Star and Other Poems, poet of the imagination Jacek... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli Publisher Comments Davie Street Translations is a witty, lively documentary-style series of poems about North American gay male culture. With versified musical machismo after the San Francisco Renaissance poets, riffing to the tune of mononymous deities Beyoncé,... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sudden Dog by Matthew Pennock Publisher Comments "'It's only America,' writes Matthew Pennock. 'We watch it unravel like a fourth act without direction.' And so in Pennock's fine first collection, we find a country of war and surveillance, an economy of boom and collapse and a consciousness built of... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Parchments by Albertine Williams Publisher Comments The Parchments is a precious collection of poetry and inspiration designed to provide encouragement to the readers. Walk with Albertine through these pages that hold her response to the touch of God's hand as she stood in the kitchen, walked across the... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $3.51 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Western Practice by Stephen Motika Publisher Comments "How to approach a microtonal notation of a life? Within a diverse field of spacing, Motika's poem 'Delusions Enclosures: On Harry Partch (1901-1974)' scores a biography of the sounds of words and phrases written by the composer himself in and among the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Always Broken Plates of Mountains by Rose Mclarney Publisher Comments Set in the Appalachian landscape, Rose McLarney's debut collection, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical. There is a tenderness that persists as McLarney explores... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Walking Papers: Poems 1999-2009 by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments "A pilgrimage of sorts through growing old and facing death--subjects that caregivers know all too well. [Lynch's] upfront, unvarnished style is likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions."--Mary Plummer,... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems by Traci Brimhall Publisher Comments Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world. Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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After the Point of No Return by David Wagoner Publisher Comments "Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."—The Seattle Times In his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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