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by Allen Ginsberg  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more)  List Price $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saul Williams Publisher Comments Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Whyte
Publisher Comments In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost -DANTE Like Dante, many of today's corporate workers find themselves lost in the day-to-day duties of their jobs. Our lives seem shaken by the events of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Li-Young Lee
Powells.com Staff Pick Li-Young Lee has the rare gift of being able to write about the personal and the communal in a humble and truthful voice that lends his poems great authority and reach. Behind My Eyes, his fourth book, demonstrates again his ability to allow the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) check for new and sale copies
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by Dylan Thomas Publisher Comments A classic New Directions book—revised for the 21st Century. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952—the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time—and it was published by New... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Oliver
Publisher Comments Winner of the 1992 National Book Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1993 "One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Jones Publisher Comments "Jones can be stunning, effortlessly finding the right tone. This is instinctive poetry, combining bluntness with reserve."-The Village Voice "Richard Jones... demonstrates an ability both to transform into affirmation the tragedies of personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radioas The Writeras Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seamus Heaney
Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Billy Collins
Powells.com Staff Pick Like sitting across the table from your favorite author and talking about the best meal of your life, or the pets you had as kids. Engaging, personal, and always profound. Recommended by Emily, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Synopsis Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. To celebrate his years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce these special, limited... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hayden Carruth Synopsis Winner of the National Book Award. With passion and pathos and great good humor -- in poems that could only be written by a mature poet at the height of his powers -- Carruth speaks with intimate and urgent clarity of love late in life. In heart-rending... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Snyder Synopsis Poetry and prose writings unearth the common origins and survival concerns of the diverse cultures coexisting in America.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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