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Stag's Leap
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.95
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling... Read more >
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.95
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling... Read more >
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Mother
A Cradle to Hold Me
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $9.95
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry collections, including I Shall Not... Read more >
A Cradle to Hold Me
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $9.95
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry collections, including I Shall Not... Read more >
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Autobiography of Red
A Novel in Verse
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in... Read more >
A Novel in Verse
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in... Read more >
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Red Doc>
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names.
To...
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Stag's Leap
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $26.95
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $26.95
In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that...
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trade paperback.
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $26.00
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, 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...
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $17.00
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume... Read more >
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $17.00
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 1994
Price: $27.00
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 1994
Price: $27.00
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Thirst
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $14.00
Thirst, a collection of fortythree new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and... Read more >
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $14.00
Thirst, a collection of fortythree new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and... Read more >
