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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton

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Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The...
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Things My Mother Never Told Me
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Things My Mother Never Told Me
by Blake Morrison

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Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of...
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford

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Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and...
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The Endarkenment (Pitt Poetry)
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The Endarkenment (Pitt Poetry)
by Jeffrey Mcdaniel

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Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and The Splinter Factory. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1994, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and New (American) Poets. He has...
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Complaint in the Garden
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Complaint in the Garden
by Randall Mann

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From poolside to seaside, barroom to classroom, sex club to colonial Florida, Randall Mann's curiosity endeavors to discover, often ironically, the beauty of things in the world around him. These meditations--harsh, honest, explicit (though never vulgar),...
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Second Space: New Poems
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Second Space: New Poems
by Czeslaw Milosz

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Concerned with questions of aging and mortality, "A Second Space" furthers 93-year-old Nobel laureate Milosz's reputation as "arguably the greatest living poet" (Edward Hirsch, "New York Times Book Reviews")....
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The Poems of Mao Zedong
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The Poems of Mao Zedong
by Zedong Mao

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Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition...
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Claude Mckay

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New compilation of verse by important Jamaican-American poet. Dialect verse, standard English poems from "Harlem Shadows," uncollected works, more. Edited and with an introduction by Joan R. Sherman....
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Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works
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Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works
by Jackson Mac Low

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"Jackson Mac Low's poetry and prose exceeds narrow definitions of artists by movements or poets by style. His work began with and returned to timeless subjects such as children, animals, love, war, death, and God, diverging at points into rigorously...
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Paradise Lost (03 Edition)
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Paradise Lost (03 Edition)
by John Milton

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Reprinted with corrections and updated bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlvii]-lii)....
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Dismal Rock
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Dismal Rock
by Davis Mccombs

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The award-winning poet Davis McCombs revisits the landscape of his youth on the tobacco farms of Kentucky in this insightful collection of verse. Initially chronicling events in local and family history, the poems in this book soon widen in scope until...
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Search Party: Collected Poems
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Search Party: Collected Poems
by William Matthews

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When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his...
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The Vixen: Poems
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The Vixen: Poems
by W S Merwin

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This major collection, by a major American poet who has been awarded the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art, is concerned with the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France. "Merwin writes," J.D....
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Migration: New & Selected Poems
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Migration: New & Selected Poems
by W. S. Merwin

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Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. "The poems in Migrationspeak a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection."-National Book Award judges...
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New California Poetry #14: Subject
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New California Poetry #14: Subject
by Laura Mullen

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Calvin Bedient calls the poetry in this volume solid and brave and relentlessly inventive. Forrest Gander says, The obsessive force of this poetry, ruptured by caesura and stanza, is remarkable. Despite the considerable intellectual torque, the poems...
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Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias
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Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias
by Robert Archambeau

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Essays on the work of this significant American poet treat his career from its beginnings under the tutelage of John Berryman and Yvor Winters through its engagement with modern and postmodern poetics. These twelves points of view will permit readers...
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Seven Notebooks: Poems
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Seven Notebooks: Poems
by Campbell McGrath

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An ant to the stars or stars to the ant — which is more irrelevant? Weekend Jet Skiers — rude to call them idiots, yes, but facts are facts. Clamor of seabirds as the sun falls — I look up and ten years have passed."...
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Paradise Lost (00 Edition)
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Paradise Lost (00 Edition)
by John Milton

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The Complete Poems
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The Complete Poems
by Andrew Marvell

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Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity, and...
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Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral
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Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral
by Gabriela Mistral

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A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures...
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