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New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver Staff Pick With themes that are deceptively simple yet immense in view, Mary Oliver's poetry is a constant surprise. Time spent immersed in her language is time pleasurably spent.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Publisher Comments Kahlil Gibrans masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gift : Poems By Hafiz, Great Sufi Master (99 Edition) by Hafiz Publisher Comments Chosen by author Elizabeth Gilbert as one of her ten favorite books, Daniel Ladinsky’s extraordinary renderings of 250 unforgettable lyrical poems by Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time More than any other Persian poet—even Rumi&... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Light (90 Edition) by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford Staff Pick I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turtle Island (84 Edition) by Gary Snyder Publisher Comments These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Could Tell You Stories by Patricia Hampl Staff Pick This book of essays, focusing on the idea of memoir and memory, fell into my hands rather by accident; I started reading somewhat casually and was very happily drawn in. Hampl's voice is lovely: elegant and clear, she works through the concepts of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments < p> Praise for Stephen Mitchell& #39; s translation of Rilke: < blockquote> < I> Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced.< /I> & #160; < br> -- Chicago Tribune<... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir by Kim Stafford Publisher Comments Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr Staff Pick The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crave Radiance by Elizabeth Alexander Publisher Comments The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Publisher Comments Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Tretheweys elegiac Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Gathered here for the first time is the verse of three decades of one of America's greatest poets. Collected Poems 1947-1980 includes all writings in the groundbreaking paperback volumes published by City Lights Books, the contents of many rare... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Robert Browning Publisher Comments Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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