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by Billy Collins  
Publisher Comments Billy Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful." Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." The New York Times calls him simply "the... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edgar Lee Masters Publisher Comments A landmark of 20th-century American literature: a series of over 200 compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. Reprinted from... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Author's Preface, Reader's Manual Arrangement of Text Herein author has assembled all his poetry books published to date rearranged in straight chronological order to compose an autobiography. Collected Poems includes seven volumes published in City... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Blake Morrison Synopsis Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T S Eliot Publisher Comments Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " The Waste... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (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" <P>"Richard Jones... demonstrates an ability both to transform into affirmation the tragedies of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (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 $16.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howlis the poet's own re-creation of... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rumi
From Powells.com "I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher Comments The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.50 (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 $15.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fernando Pessoa Publisher Comments The poetry of the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ("Los Angeles Times") Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under heteronymsfully fleshed alter... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments An extraordinary tribute to one remarkable writer and woman from another.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher Comments "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (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 $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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