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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
by Jack Kerouac

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Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create...
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Strong Is Your Hold with CD (Audio)
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Strong Is Your Hold with CD (Audio)
by Galway Kinnell

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In paperback for the first time comes the celebrated 11th book of poems by Kinnell, works reflecting intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, and poems about his family and friends. Includes an audio CD of the poet...
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Valentines
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Valentines
by Ted Kooser

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For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems...
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Delights & Shadows
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Delights & Shadows
by Ted Kooser

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Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist"and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and...
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Kipling: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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Kipling: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Rudyard Kipling

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Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing...
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Gilgamesh : Verse Play (06 Edition)
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Gilgamesh : Verse Play (06 Edition)
by Yusef Komunyakaa

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The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh....
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Sally's Hair: Poems
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Sally's Hair: Poems
by John Koethe

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Let me stay there for a while, while evening Gathers in the sky and daylight lingers on the hills. There's something in the air, something I can't quite see, Hiding behind this stock of images, this language Culled from all the poems I've ever loved...
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E-Mails from Scheherazad (University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry)
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E-Mails from Scheherazad (University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry)
by Mohja Kahf

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Kahf establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to...
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Invasions: New Poems (Ivan R. Dee Paperback Original)
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Invasions: New Poems (Ivan R. Dee Paperback Original)
by Adam Kirsch

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In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst...
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The Mama Poems
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The Mama Poems
by Maurice Kenny

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"The world [Maurice] Kenny opens for us is personal, yet never sentimental. It is a world in which long-dead relatives can appear when they are needed; in which the drum sounds in rituals of curing; a world vibrant with the natural landscape."-Joseph...
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Still to Mow
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Still to Mow
by Maxine Kumin

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"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."—Booklist Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the...
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac

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The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier...
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John Keats: The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
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John Keats: The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Keats

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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a...
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Sinners Welcome: Poems
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Sinners Welcome: Poems
by Mary Karr

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Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this — her fourth collection of poems — traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote...
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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
by Donald Hall

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A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen...
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
by Jane Kenyon

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All of Jane Kenyon’ s published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperback Yes, long shadows go out from the bales; and yes, the soul must part from the body: what else could it do? — from “ Twilight: After Haying...
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Book of Sketches: 1952-57 (Poets, Penguin)
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Book of Sketches: 1952-57 (Poets, Penguin)
by Jack Kerouac

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A never-before-published book of poems by Jack Kerouac in a deluxe package. In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his...
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Otherwise
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Otherwise
by Jane Kenyon

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Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let...
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American Poets Continuum #87: Model Homes
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American Poets Continuum #87: Model Homes
by Wayne Koestenbaum

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Wayne Koestenbaum knows how to drop the language in the blender of the imagination and hit frappe! The 13 ottava rima cantos in Model Homespresent a neo-Freudian tale of the goings-on in the poet's present home and various events from his childhood...
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
by Ted Kooser

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Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of an enlightening conversation with a wise, patient friend, one willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he spent a lifetime...
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