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The Trouble Ball: Poems by Martin Espada Publisher Comments In this new collection of poems, MartÃn Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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W. B. Yeats: A Life #02: The Arch-Poet by R F Foster Publisher Comments The second volume that completes the first authorised biography of Yeats for over fifty years.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Blake Publisher Comments Dover Thrift edition.... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford Staff Pick I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bluets by Maggie Nelson Publisher Comments Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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New California Poetry #03: Selected Poems by Fanny Howe Publisher Comments One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event. Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geronimo After Kas-Ki-Yeh: Poems by Rawdon Tomlinson Publisher Comments This new collection of poems focuses on the later years of Geronimo, the famous Chiricahua Apache war shaman. After Geronimo's family is massacred by Mexicans in 1851, he craves revenge until his 1909 death in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Chiricahuans were held... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems and Four Plays by William B Yeats Publisher Comments Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Requiem for the Orchard (10 Edition) by Oliver De La Paz Publisher Comments "These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley,' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of C.N. Bialik by C S Aberb Bialik Publisher Comments More than 60 years after his death, Chaim Nachman Bialik is inevitably called the finest and most influential modern Hebrew poet. Hailed as the poet laureate of Jewish nationalism, he was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age that witnessed the... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Autumn Grasses by Margaret Gibson Publisher Comments Inspired by a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan, Gibson creates poems that are delicate reminders of English-based forms filled with the spirit of Zen. Advertising.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Publisher Comments "Charming, melancholy, hip."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."—Library Journal Matthew Zapruder's third book... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Complete Poems, Expanded Edition (76 Edition) by C. P. Cavafy Publisher Comments Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (85 Edition) by Rainer M. Rilke Publisher Comments This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Publisher Comments From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Poems (85 Edition) by Robert Hayden Publisher Comments Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children by Paula Bohince Publisher Comments "Nostalgic" Jar of feathers becoming, finally, another map: cloistered homage to a decade of geese haunting the grid of our steadfastness. Un-find the coveted ibis; kiss the scarlet of the robin's blurred departure. In the end, we were landmark, compass,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Whiskey Days by Tommy Gaffney Publisher Comments Whiskey Days is the second full-length collection of memoir-driven works by Kentucky native Tommy Gaffney. Both the short stories and the poems in this volume invoke the emotional high wire of an author writing without a net, veering between the humorous... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diana Di Prima Publisher Comments Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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