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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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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 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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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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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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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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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Leonard Cohen Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $13.50 New - Hardcover
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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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Leaves of Grass (150th Anniversary Edition) by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments This collection remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Mass Market
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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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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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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan Publisher Comments Kay Ryan's current appointment as the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States is the latest in a cascade of accolades that have finally caught up with a poet who has always found her own way—both in the poetry she writes and the quiet life she has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments #1 Poetry Foundation Bestseller Michigan Notable Book "A beautifully mysterious inquiry... Here Harrison—forthright, testy, funny, and profoundly discerning—a gruff romantic and a sage realist, tells tales about himself, from his... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Almost Invisible: Poems by Mark Strand Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand's clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Woolgathering by Patti Smith Publisher Comments A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, "a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me." She discovers--often at night, often in nature--the pleasures... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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