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Selected Poems
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71173-2 (0-375-71173-2)
The first new selection of this acclaimed poet’s work in nearly twenty years—now in paperback—is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.
“This new book makes a real contribution. It is wonderful to see the poems printed one to... Read more >
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71173-2 (0-375-71173-2)
The first new selection of this acclaimed poet’s work in nearly twenty years—now in paperback—is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.
“This new book makes a real contribution. It is wonderful to see the poems printed one to... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-28047-3 (0-307-28047-0)
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any... Read more >
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-28047-3 (0-307-28047-0)
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any... Read more >
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Stevens: Poems
Written by Wallace Stevens
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-42911-1 (0-679-42911-5)
This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination. Read more >
Written by Wallace Stevens
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-42911-1 (0-679-42911-5)
This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination. Read more >
Almost Invisible
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Hardcover, 68 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95731-3 (0-307-95731-4)
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke... Read more >
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Hardcover, 68 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95731-3 (0-307-95731-4)
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke... Read more >
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The Continuous Life,
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73844-2 (0-679-73844-4)
The Continuous Life includes an unusual variety of Strand's verse and prose poems. Considered his best and liveliest book, it adds a new dimension to his work: a wonderful deepening tone and feeling.
"Strand's new book shows him writing at his absolute peak. It offers so many different kinds of work that... Read more >
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73844-2 (0-679-73844-4)
The Continuous Life includes an unusual variety of Strand's verse and prose poems. Considered his best and liveliest book, it adds a new dimension to his work: a wonderful deepening tone and feeling.
"Strand's new book shows him writing at his absolute peak. It offers so many different kinds of work that... Read more >
Dark Harbor
A Poem
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 28, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75279-0 (0-679-75279-X)
Mark Strand was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1993.
"Mark Strand remains committed to the task of negotiating, in verse, between desire and despair, possibility and fulfillment... What is new is the confidence of his speech, the extraordinary clarity with which he addresses any poet's biggest themes: love and death... Read more >
A Poem
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 28, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75279-0 (0-679-75279-X)
Mark Strand was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1993.
"Mark Strand remains committed to the task of negotiating, in verse, between desire and despair, possibility and fulfillment... What is new is the confidence of his speech, the extraordinary clarity with which he addresses any poet's biggest themes: love and death... Read more >
Man and Camel
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71126-8 (0-375-71126-0)
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who... Read more >
Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71126-8 (0-375-71126-0)
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who... Read more >
New Selected Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71127-5 (0-375-71127-9)
More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his first Selected Poems, we at last have a magnificent new gathering of Mark Strand’s work, one that spans and celebrates his entire remarkable career to date. From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous... Read more >
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71127-5 (0-375-71127-9)
More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his first Selected Poems, we at last have a magnificent new gathering of Mark Strand’s work, one that spans and celebrates his entire remarkable career to date. From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 26, 1990
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73301-0 (0-679-73301-9)
This substantial volume of eighty-three poems represents over two decades of solid work on which his reputation is based. This is the landmark collection of a major figure in the poetry world. Read more >
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 26, 1990
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73301-0 (0-679-73301-9)
This substantial volume of eighty-three poems represents over two decades of solid work on which his reputation is based. This is the landmark collection of a major figure in the poetry world. Read more >
The Story of Our Lives
with The Monument and The Late Hour
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70975-3 (0-375-70975-4)
This book brings together for the first time three out-of-print works written in the 1970's by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—-an essential for long-time and first-time readers alike.
It opens with the haunting "Elegy for My Father" from The Story of Our Lives (1973)—-a powerful evocation of the emptiness, abandonment, and questioning that... Read more >
with The Monument and The Late Hour
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70975-3 (0-375-70975-4)
This book brings together for the first time three out-of-print works written in the 1970's by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—-an essential for long-time and first-time readers alike.
It opens with the haunting "Elegy for My Father" from The Story of Our Lives (1973)—-a powerful evocation of the emptiness, abandonment, and questioning that... Read more >
The Weather of Words
Poetic Inventions
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70970-8 (0-375-70970-3)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry—a master class both entertaining and provocative.
The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem... Read more >
Poetic Inventions
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70970-8 (0-375-70970-3)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry—a master class both entertaining and provocative.
The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem... Read more >
Americana
and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41254-7 (0-375-41254-9)
John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with... Read more >
and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41254-7 (0-375-41254-9)
John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with... Read more >
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Selected Poems
Written by Mona Van Duyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70980-7 (0-375-70980-0)
This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn’s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classic Valentines to the Wide World (1959), encompassing the intimate voice of Bedtime Stories (1972) and the moving Letters from a Father (1982), crowned by the life-spanning Firefall (1993), Selected Poems reacquaints us with a... Read more >
Written by Mona Van Duyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70980-7 (0-375-70980-0)
This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn’s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classic Valentines to the Wide World (1959), encompassing the intimate voice of Bedtime Stories (1972) and the moving Letters from a Father (1982), crowned by the life-spanning Firefall (1993), Selected Poems reacquaints us with a... Read more >
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A Poet's Mind
Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985
Edited by Christopher Wagstaff
Contribution by Robert Duncan
Foreword by Gerrit Lansing
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-454-7 (1-58394-454-0)
Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan “had the best ear this side of Dante.” His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William... Read more >
Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985
Edited by Christopher Wagstaff
Contribution by Robert Duncan
Foreword by Gerrit Lansing
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-454-7 (1-58394-454-0)
Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan “had the best ear this side of Dante.” His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William... Read more >
The Beat Book
Writings from the Beat Generation
Edited by Anne Waldman
Foreword by Allen Ginsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-455-6 (1-59030-455-1)
REVISED AND UPDATED
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in... Read more >
Writings from the Beat Generation
Edited by Anne Waldman
Foreword by Allen Ginsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-455-6 (1-59030-455-1)
REVISED AND UPDATED
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in... Read more >
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
New Poems
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7105-7 (0-8129-7105-1)
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple gives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post).
The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in... Read more >
New Poems
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7105-7 (0-8129-7105-1)
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple gives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post).
The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in... Read more >
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eBook.
Comic Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-41354-4 (0-375-41354-5)
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse.
Comic Poems is studded with unforgettable classics... Read more >
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-41354-4 (0-375-41354-5)
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse.
Comic Poems is studded with unforgettable classics... Read more >
Earth, My Likeness
Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
Written by Walt Whitman
Edited by Howard Nelson
Introduction by Howard Nelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-910-0 (1-55643-910-5)
While Walt Whitman is best known as America’s first great urban poet, he was also a gifted nature poet, as the selections in this book show. Here his celebration of the “body electric” from Leaves of Grass expands into a celebration of an equally electrifying nature as he memorializes the seashore... Read more >
Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
Written by Walt Whitman
Edited by Howard Nelson
Introduction by Howard Nelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-910-0 (1-55643-910-5)
While Walt Whitman is best known as America’s first great urban poet, he was also a gifted nature poet, as the selections in this book show. Here his celebration of the “body electric” from Leaves of Grass expands into a celebration of an equally electrifying nature as he memorializes the seashore... Read more >
Leaves of Grass
The "Death-Bed" Edition
Written by Walt Whitman
Introduction by William Carlos Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78342-8 (0-679-78342-3)
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice... Read more >
The "Death-Bed" Edition
Written by Walt Whitman
Introduction by William Carlos Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78342-8 (0-679-78342-3)
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice... Read more >
Leaves of Grass
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21116-0 (0-553-21116-1)
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful... Read more >
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21116-0 (0-553-21116-1)
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful... Read more >
Song of Myself
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 23, 1998
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-1-57062-369-1 (1-57062-369-4)
Song of Myself may be the greatest poem ever written by an American. First published in 1855 as part of Leaves of Grass, it was revised and expanded by Whitman in subsequent editions in ways that sometimes undermined its original freshness and vitality. Stephen Mitchell has gone back to the first... Read more >
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 23, 1998
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-1-57062-369-1 (1-57062-369-4)
Song of Myself may be the greatest poem ever written by an American. First published in 1855 as part of Leaves of Grass, it was revised and expanded by Whitman in subsequent editions in ways that sometimes undermined its original freshness and vitality. Stephen Mitchell has gone back to the first... Read more >
Whitman: Poems
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 18, 1994
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-43632-4 (0-679-43632-4)
This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of Myself," "I Hear America Singing," "Halcyon Days," and an index of first lines. Read more >
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 18, 1994
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-43632-4 (0-679-43632-4)
This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of Myself," "I Hear America Singing," "Halcyon Days," and an index of first lines. Read more >
In the Salt Marsh
Written by Nancy Willard
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71053-7 (0-375-71053-1)
In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the... Read more >
Written by Nancy Willard
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71053-7 (0-375-71053-1)
In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the... Read more >
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The Sea at Truro
Poems
Written by Nancy Willard
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95977-5 (0-307-95977-5)
From the acclaimed poet of In the Salt Marsh comes a dazzling collection about the magic hiding in the ordinary days of our past and present. Willard turns a keen eye on the natural world that witnesses these revelations, and the myriad, often surprising ways in which it intersects with our... Read more >
Poems
Written by Nancy Willard
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95977-5 (0-307-95977-5)
From the acclaimed poet of In the Salt Marsh comes a dazzling collection about the magic hiding in the ordinary days of our past and present. Willard turns a keen eye on the natural world that witnesses these revelations, and the myriad, often surprising ways in which it intersects with our... Read more >
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White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45630-4 (0-307-45630-7)
Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, and sheds new light not only on the famously elusive poet, but on the roiling America of the nineteenth century.
As the Civil War raged in 1862, an unusual relationship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas... Read more >
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45630-4 (0-307-45630-7)
Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, and sheds new light not only on the famously elusive poet, but on the roiling America of the nineteenth century.
As the Civil War raged in 1862, an unusual relationship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas... Read more >
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