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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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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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Paradise Lost :Norton Critical Edition by John Milton Synopsis The second edition of the "Norton Critical Edition" of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The poem, the 1674 version, retains the original punctuation but the spelling has been modernized. The book now includes selected early work, and material for the study of... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $10.95 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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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 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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Place To Stand (01 Edition) by Jimmy Santiago Baca Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of life inside a maximum-security prison and an affirmation of one man's spirit in overcoming the most brutal adversity, this award-winning memoir "stands as proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives" ("Fort Worth... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart of a Woman (Oprah's Book Club) by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Bestselling author and poetess Maya Angelous profoundly moving personal story is revealed in these, the first four volumes of her continuing memoir. Set includes 1 trade paperback edition each of: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Gather Together In My... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 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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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing by Kenneth Koch Publisher Comments Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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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: $5.50 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Rita Dove Publisher Comments Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds Publisher Comments The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 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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Wellspring : Poems (95 Edition) by Sharon Olds Publisher Comments Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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