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King Baby
by Lia Purpura  Publisher Comments "The story of your creation starts/with a force that wanted something,'Lia Purpura writes, and worked to see if you were it.'A myth of motherhood, a parable of artistic creation, a suite of hymns to an ambiguous emblem, this compelling, Orphic sequence...
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Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath 
Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity...
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Fidelity
by Grace Paley Publisher Comments Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont...
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The Second Blush: Poems
by Molly Peacock Publisher Comments Acclaimed poet Molly Peacock tracks the vicissitudes of midlife marriage in her saucy, vulnerable, philosophical sixth collection. Semonstrating once again her "luxuriantly sensual imagination" (Washington Post), Molly Peacock celebrates marriage and a...
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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes....
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Collected Love Poems
by Brian Patten Publisher Comments This collection of poetry by one of Britain's most accessible writers will prove a popular gift for Valentine's Day. New poems are included. 'A magical ability to turn radiant imagination loose' "Times"....
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ABC of Reading
by Ezra Pound Publisher Comments The entire book re-emphasizes the fact that one of Pound's major contributions to modern culture was his great ability to discover neglected and unknown genius, distinguishes originals from imitations, and opening new avenues in literature for our time....
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The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
Powells.com Staff Pick Relatively unknown during his lifetime (having published only a single book of poems), Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) has since been recognized as a literary genius. A national hero in his native Portugal, he developed a style of writing based on the use of...
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Old Heart: Poems
by Stanley Plumly Publisher Comments "Successor to James Wright and John Keats, with a marvelous ear for the music of contemplation."--Rita Dove In his new collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality--in the detailed natural world, in the immediacy of the loss of friends,...
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Cortege: Poems
by Carl Phillips Publisher Comments Praise for "In the Blood" <BR>"An astonishing debut by an African-American poet with mandarin grace and surpassing elegance of form married to unflinchingly bold and discerning content. Phillips refuses to write what might be expected of him on any...
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My Mother's Body
by Marge Piercy Publisher Comments My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the...
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Chameleon Hours (Phoenix Poets)
by Elise Partridge Publisher Comments From Ways of Going for Steve Will it be like paragliding— gossamer takeoff, seedlike drifting down into a sunlit, unexpected grove? Or ski-jumping—headlong soaring, ski-tips piercing clouds, crystal revelations astonishing my goggles? . ....
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Still Here, Still Now
by Robert Pack Publisher Comments Robert Pack is one of America’s most eminent nature poets, and his virtuoso talents are on glorious display in Still Here, Still Now, his nineteenth volume of verse. With styles ranging from lyric to narrative, and themes stretching from biblical...
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Pocket Poets #41: Roman Poems
by Pier Paolo Pasolini Publisher Comments The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the...
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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered...
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The Pear as One Example: New & Selected Poems 1984-2008
by Eric Pankey Publisher Comments This book off ers a generous selection from Eric Pankey's previous seven collections of poetry as well a book-length group of new poems. For Pankey, language is a means of divination, of augury, of reading the world-the refracted past, the ephemeral...
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Great Balls of Fire: Poems
by Ron Padgett About the Author Ron Padgett, as Peter Gizzi says, is "a thoroughly American poet, coming sideways out of Whitman, Williams and New York Pop with a Tulsa twist."His poetry has been translated into over a dozen languages and has appeared in The Norton Anthology of...
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Ariel's Gift: A Commentary on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
by Erica Wagner Publisher Comments Wagner explores the powerful and destructive relationship between Ted Hughes and the American poet Sylvia Plath in this compelling and tragic story of the marriage of two poetic geniuses....
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City of Memory: And Other Poems
by Jose Emilio Pacheco Publisher Comments The leading poet of his generation, Jos Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations. The first, "City...
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Birthmark (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
by Jon Pineda Publisher Comments In Jon Pineda's debut collection "Birthmark," loss takes the shape of a scar, memory the shape of a childhood, and identity the shape of a birthmark on a lover's thigh. Like water taking the form of its container, Pineda's poems swell to fill the lines...
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