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The Prophet
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
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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)

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Bell Jar
Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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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)

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
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"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)

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The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
by Frank Stanford
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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)

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Little Stranger (Lannan Literary Selections)
Little Stranger (Lannan Literary Selections)
by Lisa Olstein
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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)

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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson
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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)

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The Liar's Club
The Liar's Club
by Mary Karr
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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)

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You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski
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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)

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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
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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)

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A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems
A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems
by Raymond Carver
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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)

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Life on Mars
Life on Mars
by Tracy K. Smith
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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)

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Collected Poems
Collected Poems
by Edna St Vincent Millay
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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)

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Complete Poems, Nineteen Eighty-One
Complete Poems, Nineteen Eighty-One
by Anne Sexton
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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)

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New California Poetry #4: Sleeping with the Dictionary
New California Poetry #4: Sleeping with the Dictionary
by Harryette Mullen
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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)

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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
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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)

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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
by Jack Kerouac
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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)

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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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)

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Wild Iris (92 Edition)
Wild Iris (92 Edition)
by Louise Gluck
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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)

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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
by T S Eliot
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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)

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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems
T. S. Eliot Selected Poems
by T S Eliot
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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)

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