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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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Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Here is the definitive collection of his work, from his solemn masterpeice "When Lilacs Last in the...
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Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (Yale Studies in English)
by Paul H Fry Publisher Comments In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth’s motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or...
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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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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece...
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Leaves of Grass-150TH Anniversary Edition (05 Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments This collection remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done....
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Littlefoot
by Charles Wright Publisher Comments Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country’s most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator’s search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on “the other side of my own death.&#...
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, Said the Shotgun to the Head.
by Saul Williams Publisher Comments Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words . . . the Bob Marley of American poets" ("Esquire"), Saul Williams brings his provocative and innovative style to a new epic poem....
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The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
by David Whyte 
Publisher Comments In this peerless book, Whyte shows how the language of prophecy, poetry, and enlightenment gives voice to the most creative--yet hidden--desires. He shows that the best way to respond to the current call for creativity in organizational life is to...
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Fun Being Me (Notable Voices)
by Jack Wiler Publisher Comments Four years ago, Jack Wiler was hospitalized with AIDS. This book is his attempt to talk about what it is to die and live again. The collection is far more than his struggle with the AIDS virus. Wiler aims for the hard truth as he writes about the world...
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Leaves of Grass the Death Bed Edition
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's...
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Leaves of Grass (59 Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "Leaves of Grass" inaugurated a new voice, style, and optimistic, bombastic vision into American letters, one that took the nation itself as subject. Unlike many other editions of "Leaves of Grass", which reproduce various short early editions, our new...
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One Big Self
by C D Wright Publisher Comments "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence."-The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state...
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness
by Alice Walker Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple gives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature...
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New Directions Paperbook #53: In the American Grain: Essays
by William Ca Williams Publisher Comments Meditations on American history and its myths, including chapters on Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, and the conquest of Mexico....
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Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments Treasury of 39 works by influential English Romantic poet: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the "Lucy" poems, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," many more--all...
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Conversations with Richard Wilbur
by William Butts Publisher Comments Collections of interviews with notable modern...
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
by Alice Walker Publisher Comments Vivid poems of “breakdown and spiritual disarray.” Writing these, Walker says, “led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.” What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and...
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A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright
by Anne (edt) Wright Publisher Comments There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely--if one is lucky in one's...
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Walking to Martha's Vineyard
by Franz Wright Publisher Comments In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the "Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window," he shakes off his fear of...
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