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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (04 Edition) by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Loose Woman: Poems by Sandra Cisneros Publisher Comments A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. "Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper."--... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot by T S Eliot Publisher Comments Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliots original ideas, cogent... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Liar's Club by Mary Karr From Powells.com Mary Karr is a poet who writes wry, punchy, blackly humorous prose. Her harrowing childhood is brought to Technicolor life in her memoir The Liars' Club. A dazzling bestseller, The Liars' Club was selected one of the best books of 1995 by... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Baptism of Desire: Poems by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks, Baptisim by blood, water, or desire is necessary for salvation in Roman Catholic tradition, and baptism of desire in... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse by Rudyard Kipling Publisher Comments Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages. Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works. This is the only complete... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Practice of the Wild (90 Edition) by Gary Snyder Book News Annotation The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and counter-culture hero offers a prescription for recovering our humanness by giving it away--by giving back to the earth more than we take. No index. Published by North Point Press, 850 Talbot Avenue, Berkeley, CA... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost, by John Milton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women:... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Poetry (Best American Poetry) by Kevin Young Publisher Comments The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems (03 Edition) by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments Unequalled in their grace, earthiness, and expression of sensual longing, the love poems of Pablo Neruda are perhaps the most lyrically written and widely read of this century. A perennial best-seller since it was published in Chile nearly 70years ago... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound Staff Pick Welcome to Ezuversity. No tuition and just this one textbook. "ABC or gradus ad Parnassum, for those who like to learn."... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deliberate Prose : Selected Essays 1952-1995 (00 Edition) by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Chapter One Politics and Prophecies Political Life Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs or Independence Day Manifesto Recent history is the record of a vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind and exterminate all... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 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: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry (99 Edition) by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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