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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou  
Publisher Comments The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ." . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the...
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The Fortieth Day (American Poets Continuum)
by Kazim Ali Publisher Comments From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state "after,"but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one....
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Yale Series of Younger Poets #92: My Shining Archipelago
by Talvikki Ansel Publisher Comments Talvikki Ansel's My Shining Archipelago is the winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Her book gives us a front-row seat in a true Amazon theater where, says James Dickey in his foreword, ""Ansel finds her way of bringing into...
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W. H. Auden : Collected Poems (91 Edition)
by Auden W. H. Publisher Comments Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.    Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from...
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A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre
by Vicente Aleixandre Publisher Comments "For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history."-The New York Times A Longing for the Lightis the only available bilingual...
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition....
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Collected Shorter Poems 1927 1957
by W H Auden Synopsis W.H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. This volume offers an introduction to his consummate craftsmanship and his unparalleled originality which made him...
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Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
by Thekla Clark Publisher Comments -- Robert Craft, New York Review of...
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The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
by A R Ammons Publisher Comments A.R. Ammons's new selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier edition, 'makes available the very best of him.' To the 'visions of clarity and terror' in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his...
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Dread: Poems
by Ai Publisher Comments A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award--winning author of Vice. IN POEMS THAT TRAVEL from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the...
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Next Life (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Rae Armantrout Synopsis In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and...
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Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me
by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook...
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Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire
by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments Letter to Dr. B --
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Selected Poems: 1965-1975
by Margaret E Atwood Publisher Comments Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade....
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Later Auden
by Edward Mendelson Publisher Comments Later Auden, the second part of Edward Mendelson's acclaimed study, traces the history of W. H. Auden's poems from his arrival in the United States until his death in 1973. Linking the changes in Auden's intellectual, religious, and erotic life...
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Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems
by A R Ammons Publisher Comments "BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for...
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Selected Poems (Vintage International)
by W. H. Auden Publisher Comments This edition presents the original versions of 30 poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career....
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Quickly Changing River: Poems
by Meena Alexander Publisher Comments With her strong voice and precise language, Meena Alexander has crafted this visceral, worldly collection of poems. The experience she brings to the reader is sensual in many senses of the word, as she invokes bright colors, sounds, smells, and feelings....
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Auden: Poems
by W H Auden Publisher Comments The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing...
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The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The...
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