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Bread Without Sorrow: Poems by John Hodgen Publisher Comments This winner of the Balcones Prize for Poetry contains poems of family, love, betrayal, belief, and profound speculation. It is a poetry of long, musical lines, astonishingly original metaphor, and clear and direct voice. This is a remarkably intimate and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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High Water Mark Signed Edition by David Shumate Publisher Comments Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. These fresh and unpredictable prose poems annouce the arrival of an exciting new voice. Every page is filled with unexpected delights.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sound of It (Many Voices Project) by Tim Nolan Publisher Comments Tim Nolan's voice is funny and serious at once, sly and direct, wry and heartfelt...Anybody who can turn a poem called 'Brussels Sprouts' into a psalm to the strange and compelling beauties of family, mortality, and sea salt is not to be missed. --Jim... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bellini in Istanbul (06 Edition) by Bever Publisher Comments Poetry. Winner of the 2004 Tupelo Press First Book competition, this collection of work from celebrated poet Lillias Bever explores themes of art, archeology, and the idea of cultural transmission. Revolving around the Italian painter Gentile Bellini's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Surely as Birds Fly (New Odyssey Series) by H L Hix Publisher Comments Tabloid violence, complicated theology and lines of great beauty come together in this instantly memorable and disturbing volume.--"Publishers Weekly"... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Robert Frost Reader: Poetry and Prose by Robert Frost Publisher Comments Robert Frost was the most emblematically American of poets, a forthright advocate of both the art and craft of verse who was recognized and cherished as few other poets have ever been. This reader offers students and scholars a plethora of his speeches... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pulling a Dragon's Teeth (Pitt Poetry Series) by Wei Shao Publisher Comments There is a proverb in China "hu kou ba ya, literally "pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth," used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age thirty-one, her desire to write poems in English seemed... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Rilke by Galway Kinnell Publisher Comments German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Michelangelo: Sonnets by Michelangelo Publisher Comments Originally written as letters, Michelangelo's vehement and energetic sonnets range from formal expressions of thanks to passionate arguments as they flatter patrons, address lovers, cry out to God, and reflect on art and metaphysics.... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Wave by Ron Slate Publisher Comments In his acclaimed debut collection The Incentive of the Maggot, Ron Slate delivered an ingenious and enigmatic account of the intersections of global, family and personal histories. Now, in The Great Wave, a more personal tone asserts itself as Slate... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Earthly by Erica Funkhouser Publisher Comments Erica Funkhousers fifth collection considers what it means to be earthly. These are poems in which a one-eyed hawk observes us from “the wide realm of his rapt patience” and a group of long-buried foundation stones works its way back to the... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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Specimen Days: And Collect by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Published in 1882, Whitman's uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the Civil War era and its aftermath, offer a rare excursion into the mind and heart of one of America's greatest poets. His intimate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dynamite on a China Plate by Jay Leeming Synopsis Original poems by Jay Leeming, winner of The Readers' Choice Award from The Backwaters Press for 2003.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai Synopsis Poetry about the search for self amidst the shrill din of technology.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Planet Pregnancy by Linda Oatman High Synopsis For sixteen-year-old Sahara, life and death and everything in between depends on the color of a little stick. She waits three long minutes, praying to Jesus, Mary, and all the saints that the stick will turn blue, meaning she isnt pregnant. Instead, the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Vanitas by Jane Mckinley Synopsis vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. —The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lit: A Memoir 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 $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dead Alive and Busy (Phoenix Poets) by Alan Shapiro Publisher Comments In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed through examining the intimate bonds of family life. The... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis Publisher Comments The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Things That No Longer Delight Me (Poets Out Loud) by Leslie Chang Publisher Comments Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:I like objects for company,to decorate the plainest spaces, decorumandI amass details, jade bracelet, her animal... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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