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Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)
by Walt Whitman  Publisher Comments This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman (1819–1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in...
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Red Bird: Poems
by Mary Oliver 
Powells.com Staff Pick Poetry lovers, rejoice! Mary Oliver's new collection has arrived, echoing her beloved early poems as well as exploring new territory. Whether reminiscing about nature or exploring the grim inevitability of its loss, Oliver's meditations on human...
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa
Powells.com Staff Pick A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains. Editor Liz Nakazawa describes...
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Selected Poems: 1970-2005
by Floyd Skloot
Powells.com Staff Pick Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and technically brilliant. He writes with equal and...
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran Publisher Comments A keepsake edition of the spiritual classic to treasure....
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
by Billy Collins
Publisher Comments "High, most encouraging tidings" — that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully...
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A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
Powells.com Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I...
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, Said the Shotgun to the Head.
by Saul Williams Publisher Comments The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent...
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Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
by Richard Hugo Publisher Comments Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American lettersùa distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that...
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Our World
by Molly Malone Cook Publisher Comments Intertwined in art and life: the prose of Mary Oliver and the photographs of Molly Malone Cook Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was...
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You Must Revise Your Life (Poets on Poetry)
by William Stafford Publisher Comments Stafford reflects on the writing process and on the influences on his art...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
by John Donne Publisher Comments One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Donne divided the book into twenty-three sections, each corresponding...
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American Primitive (78 Edition)
by Mary Oliver
Publisher Comments The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and...
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
by Robert Hass
Publisher Comments The poems in Robert Hass's new collection — his first to appear in a decade — are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate...
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Bellocq's Ophelia
by Natasha Trethewey Publisher Comments Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of...
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She
by Saul Williams Publisher Comments Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting...
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Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
by Tony Hoagland Publisher Comments The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness...
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Selected Poems (P.S.)
by Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher Comments The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm...
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Opal: Journal of an Understanding Heart (95 Edition)
by Whitely Publisher Comments A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs....
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Selected Poems
by Kenneth Rexroth Synopsis Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years work. The late Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most...
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