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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 Essential Rumi by Rumi From Powells.com "I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Richard Siken Publisher Comments Richard Siken's Crush, selected as this year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop Staff Pick Bishop is known for her detailed and precise observations and her subtle yet piercing insights into the world of memory and emotions. Anyone interested in contemporary poetry shouldn't fail to check her out.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart by Patricia Donegan Publisher Comments Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in three short lines, is celebrated for its ability to express a simple moment in a profound way. The “haiku moment,” as it is called, refers to a heightened awareness of the world around us and how,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Selected Poems by e e cummings Publisher Comments The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Poems by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ocean Avenue (99 Edition) by Morling Publisher Comments Poetry. Winner of the 1998 New Issues Poetry Prize. The poet's sense of wonder is contagious whether she views the world from her seat on a train, from the window of her apartment, or from the streets of the city. Through a subtle, mediated surrealism, M&... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 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 $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems by Caroline Kennedy Publisher Comments In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $9.00 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 "Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture-the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Sailing Alone Around the Room, by Americas Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor by Pablo Neruda Staff Pick A master at expressing the sublime melding of romantic and physical love, Neruda knows the agony, ache, joy, comfort, and desire that characterize our most heightened emotions.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Selected Poems by e e cummings Publisher Comments E. E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings's wittiest and most profound poems... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Riven Thing (11 Edition) by Christian Wiman Publisher Comments A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thing is Christian Wimans first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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