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The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments During the long farewell of her mothers dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her midwestern girlhood.Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen Publisher Comments Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, the singer/songwriters first published book, now released for a new generation, contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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W. H. Auden : Collected Poems (91 Edition) by Auden W. H. Publisher Comments Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.    Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments A new printing of Ferlinghetti's classic. The title of this vibrant collection of poems is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, and expresses the way Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950s... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez) "In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins Publisher Comments The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge. For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen Publisher Comments For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blizzard of One: Poems by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Void of Course (Penguin Poets) by Jim Carroll Publisher Comments In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara. Carroll's first... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke Publisher Comments This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners "The Walking, Words for the Wind, and "The Far Field.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life by Frances Wilson Publisher Comments Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as “the very wildest . . . person I have ever known,” DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $20.95 Used - Hardcover
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Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Engrossing essays that reflect the author’s vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism. Translated by Helen Lane.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Granted by Mary Szybist Publisher Comments Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love-particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.<BR>... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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