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Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
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. Read more >
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
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. Read more >
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Love Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $12.50
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing... Read more >
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $12.50
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing... Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
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Love Haiku
Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion, and Remembrance
Written by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $16.00
Haiku is celebrated as a concise form of poetry able to convey a singular moment with great clarity. While haiku most often depicts the natural world, when focused on the elements of love and sensuality, haiku can be a powerful vehicle for evoking the universal experience of love.
In this elegant anthology... Read more >
Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion, and Remembrance
Written by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $16.00
Haiku is celebrated as a concise form of poetry able to convey a singular moment with great clarity. While haiku most often depicts the natural world, when focused on the elements of love and sensuality, haiku can be a powerful vehicle for evoking the universal experience of love.
In this elegant anthology... Read more >
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Complete Tales & Poems
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Trade Paperback, 1040 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1975
Price: $18.00
All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Trade Paperback, 1040 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1975
Price: $18.00
All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
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Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
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The Love Poems of Rumi
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human... Read more >
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human... Read more >
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Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor
Written by Pablo Neruda
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $14.00
Premio Nobel de Literatura
“El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma”. —Gabriel García Márquez
Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora... Read more >
Written by Pablo Neruda
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $14.00
Premio Nobel de Literatura
“El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma”. —Gabriel García Márquez
Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora... Read more >
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Written by Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $19.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
Written by Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $19.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
