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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: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jar chronicles 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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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher Comments "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford Publisher Comments Poetry. Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic THE... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Stranger (Lannan Literary Selections) by Lisa Olstein Publisher Comments Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, Little Stranger explores the exigencies of close... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature) by Anne Carson Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the Bittersweet... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 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: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 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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A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems by Raymond Carver Publisher Comments Raymond Carver finished A New Path To The Waterfall shortly before his death in August 1988. These fifty poems--as hard and clear and emotionally pure as his short stories--chart a human journey: false starts and redemptions, the discovery of happiness... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith Publisher Comments Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose “lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems by Edna St Vincent Millay Publisher Comments Compiled by her sister after the poet's death and originally published in 1956, this is the definitive edition of Millay, right up through her last poem, Mine the Harvest.... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Complete Poems, Nineteen Eighty-One by Anne Sexton Publisher Comments From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New California Poetry #4: Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Publisher Comments Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her m&... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Wild Iris (92 Edition) by Louise Gluck Publisher Comments This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T S Eliot Publisher Comments For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land's... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems by T S Eliot Publisher Comments Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poets most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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