Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 22, 2000 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-77134-0 (0-679-77134-4)
In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all lifewherever and in whatever formit may deal."
Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: March 16, 1999 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75229-2 (0-375-75229-3)
" Virginia Adair speaks directly and unaffectedly, in an accent stripped of mannerism and allusion. Ants on the Melon exhibits enough formal variety, freshness, and intelligence to confirm, at one stroke, that Ms. Adair is a poet of accomplishment and originality." --Brad Leithauser, The New York Times Book Review
" Extraordinarily moving. Her voice is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: October 1, 1991 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-35458-4 (0-553-35458-2)
The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Here are three volumes of classic Maya Angelou -- including her first poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books On Sale: October 4, 2011 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-59962-103-6 (1-59962-103-7)
Love’s Exquisite Freedom pairs the lyrical grace of Maya Angelou with the exquisite art of Edward Burne-Jones. Angelou’s poem of love’s transcendent power finds a striking, sensual complement in Burne-Jones, a star of 19th century Britain’s Aesthetic movement. Burne-Jones continually examined themes of love, while persuasively arguing for the value of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: May 12, 1997 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-37985-3 (0-553-37985-2)
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Includes the full texts of...
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Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 1, 1996 Price: $6.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-25576-8 (0-553-25576-2)
In this moving volume of poetry, Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as she has discovered it in poems such as “Just Give a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie,” “Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well,” “Still I Rise, Shaker,” and “Why Don’t You Sing.”...
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Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: August 7, 2001 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-50596-6 (0-375-50596-2)
In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest of obstacles. An ode to the power that resides in us all to overcome the most difficult circumstances, this poem is truly an inspiration and affirmation of the faith that restores and nourishes the soul...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: January 8, 2013 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-95955-3 (0-307-95955-4)
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence of dream poems...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: June 17, 2003 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70978-4 (0-375-70978-9)
Visits from the Seventh is a highly original debut. Arvio’s wry, uncanny poems take the form of conversations between a woman and a throng on invisible presences—visitors, as she calls them—who counsel, challenge, cajole and comfort her. Together they murmur about destiny, the moon, a walk on Park Avenue, sex, ambition...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: October 25, 2011 Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-6920-2 (0-8070-6920-5)
Winter has been a powerful muse for many of America’s best loved poets. The elegant patterns of frost on a windowpane, a child on a sled, a lone fox foraging for food on a desolate landscape, the comic smile of a snowman, the sobering sight of an unkempt man huddled against...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 13, 2007 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27808-1 (0-307-27808-5)
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poemsadds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: April 28, 1992 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-0997-6 (0-8052-0997-2)
This is a monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different countries and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. Contributors include...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: October 5, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71171-8 (0-375-71171-6)
From acclaimed poet Jill Bialosky: a haunting series of poems about the dangers of eros and the creation of art, “as intense and perfectly noted as violin concertos” (Booklist).
“Jill Bialosky’s powerful third book of poetry, Intruder, is sharply perceptive, reminding readers about the way life forces us to our knees while...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: February 4, 2003 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70972-2 (0-375-70972-X)
Jill Bialosky follows her acclaimed debut collection, The End of Desire, with this powerful sequence of poems that probes the subterranean depths of eros. Gerald Stern has called Bialosky “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness,” and here she enters that garden again, blending...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: April 15, 2007 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-6380-4 (0-8070-6380-0)
Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir’s immense importance to the contemporary reader and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 11, 2003 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71315-6 (0-375-71315-8)
Starting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: August 12, 1988 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-75852-7 (0-394-75852-8)
Lucie Brock-Broido blazed onto the poetry scene with this first book, when Helen Vendler anointed her in The New Yorker with a lengthy review that described her achievement in A Hunger as "a violently skewed portrait of the female poet and her Muse, a hyped-up version of Stevens and his interior...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: October 4, 2005 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71022-3 (0-375-71022-1)
With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: March 5, 2013 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-96058-0 (0-307-96058-7)
In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover "Sad" (short for Sad But Great)...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 12, 1987 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-394-75535-9 (0-394-75535-9)
"Mr. Carver is heir to that most appealing American poetic voice, the lyricism of Theodore Roethke and James Wright... this book is a treasure, one to return to. No one's brevity is as rich, as complete, as Raymond Carver's." --New York Times Book Review
"Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry.......
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 12, 1986 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-74327-1 (0-394-74327-X)
Awarded Poetry Magazine's Levinson Prize
"Over the years, Raymond Carver has been writing poetry alongside his fiction...and the most vigorous poems in this new collection function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: April 13, 2004 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3499-4 (1-4000-3499-X)
Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of passion and uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including selected poems from The Invitation and Women Are...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: March 26, 2013 Price: $13.50 ISBN: 978-0-307-96146-4 (0-307-96146-X)
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded...
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