The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Written by Theodore Roethke

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2011
Price: $11.99

This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.


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Paradise Lost

Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2011
Price: $11.99

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon

John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s...

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The Waste Land and Other Writings

Written by T.S. Eliot
Introduction by Mary Karr

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $7.99

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence... Read more >

What Work Is

Written by Philip Levine

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2011
Price: $12.99

Winner of the National Book Award in 1991
 
“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names... Read more >

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
On Objects and Intimacy
Written by Mark Doty

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2002
Price: $18.00

Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.


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Ten Poems to Set You Free

Written by Roger Housden

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $11.99

Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we... Read more >

Celebrations
Rituals of Peace and Prayer
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou has served as our common... Read more >

Echoes of Memory

Written by John O'Donohue

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $11.99

John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. Just as To Bless the Space Between Us was being published, he died suddenly at the age of fifty-two. His powerfully wise and lyrical voice is profoundly missed, but his many readers are... Read more >

The Cinnamon Peeler

Written by Michael Ondaatje

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99

Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. Read more >

Blue Iris
Poems and Essays
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2004
Price: $16.00

For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and its permanence.

In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects... Read more >