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Protection by Gregg Shapiro Publisher Comments Gregg Shapiro's stunning debut marks the arrival of a new master poet on the scene. His work blows me away.--Greg Herren. Shapiro's] in-your-face intimacy feels as necessary as it does generous and brave. Protection is a blessedly open and refreshingly... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse by Akbar Ahmed Publisher Comments This collection spanning a half century of writing gives a front row seat to a world in turmoil—from the forbidding valleys and mountains of Waziristan in the tribal areas of Pakistan to the think tanks and halls of power in Washington, DC. And... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sally's Hair: Poems by John Koethe Publisher Comments "Let me stay there for a while, while evening Gathers in the sky and daylight lingers on the hills. There's something in the air, something I can't quite see, Hiding behind this stock of images, this language Culled from all the poems I've ever loved... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley Publisher Comments "Aidan Wasley shows how W. H. Auden's presence in America and the particular qualities of his later writing made him the central figure for a generation of American poets. Wasley has persuaded me that Auden's vision of America itself--optimistic, but dry,... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan Poetry) by Lee Ann Brown Publisher Comments Playful, sexy poems illuminate a rich multiplicity of experiences.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabhs Reader by Edmond Jabes Publisher Comments To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beauty and rationality of the whole. But what discoveries are made possible for the visitor The new path permits... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arts of a Cold Sun: Poems (Illinois Poetry) by G E Murray Publisher Comments In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception. Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Violent Foam: New and Selected Poems by Daisy Zamora Publisher Comments The Violent Foam includes selections from Zamora's previous acclaimed books and poems written since 1993. About her earlier book, Clean Slate, MultiCultural Review noted "Zamora was shaped by revolution and gender, but her voice is true and universal... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Lips by Penelope Scambly Schott Publisher Comments Poetry. SIX LIPS is an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love, death, and the planet where they happen. The titular six lips include those of the vulva. Nimble and tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always grounded... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Matter (Kuhl House Poets) by Bin Ramke Publisher Comments Bin Ramke's poetry has always been concerned with separanting the real from the wished-for or the feared. In Matter, Ramke investigates not only the physical realities of our world but the qualities that make things important to us, that give them weight.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pyx (National Poetry) by Corinne Lee Publisher Comments When Pattiann Rogers selected this book for the 2004 National Poetry Series, she praised its original and engaging music, the way Corinne Lee skillfully interweaves wit, playfulness, and a joie de vivre with serious study and meditations. PYX... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention by Catherine Gi Martin Publisher Comments In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost, Catherine Martin presents Milton’s poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. She argues that rather than merely extending the... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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John Milton: A Hero of Our Time by David Hawkes Synopsis John Milton — poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost — is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech. In his time, however, his ideas far... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by by Kevin Young Publisher Comments Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in Jelly Roll with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving us a film noir in verse. Black Maria — the title is a slang term for a police van as well as a hearse — is a twisting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hipster Haiku by Siobhan Adcock Publisher Comments A trenchant collection of barbed odes to the hipster world utilizes the meters of haiku to offer a look inside the obsessions, fetishes, insecurities, and characteristics of hipsterdom. Original. 35,000 first printing.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The odd last thing she did :poems by Brad Leithauser Publisher Comments In his masterly fourth collection, a poet known for his delight in language achieves an innovative fusion of the narrative and the lyrical in beautifully crafted poems that probe relations between lovers, husbands and wives, friends, enemies, fathers and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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Chekhov by Edward Sanders Publisher Comments "Chekhov" brings the art of poetic biography to its full, booklength expression -- Sanders' practice of investigative poetry unlaying both the life of one of the greatest writers and the turbulent history of pre-Revolutionary Russia, ever on the edge of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Publisher Comments First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Filibuster to Delay a Kiss: And Other Poems by Courtney Queeney Publisher Comments Family was a whitewashed, / milk-toothed word / that couldnt account for the mother / who wept and burnt / the roast if the floor was dirty– / or if it was Tuesday, or there were clouds. Written in an eloquent and searingly honest voice, these... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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