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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.... (read more) List Price $15.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Primitive by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dream Work : New Poems (86 Edition) by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters To Susan Huntington Dickinson (98 Edition) by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson'... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dinners & Nightmares by Diane Di Prima Publisher Comments Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rain Inside by Ibrahim Nasrallah Publisher Comments A Palestinian poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah is among the foremost poets of his generation. In this collection, Nasrallah describes the suffering of the Palestinians not through a personal lens, but through a universal context. He observes life with a natural... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 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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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins Publisher Comments "High, most encouraging tidings" — that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 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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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Slow Lightning (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Eduardo C Corral Publisher Comments Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braiding... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Is a Dog From Hell : Poems, 1947-1977 (79 Edition) by Charles Bukowski Synopsis Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lifesaving: A Memoir by Judith Barrington Publisher Comments In 1963, the author's parents drowned when the cruise ship Lakonia caught fire and sank north of the Canary Isles. Barrington was nineteen. Lifesaving is a lyrical rendering of an event that foreshadowed the accident, the years of holding grief at bay --... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost Publisher Comments The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classic Poetry) by John Milton Publisher Comments The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Each work demonstrates Milton's genius for classicism, innovation... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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