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Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $9.95
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
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A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $9.95
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
Read by the... Read more >
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American Dreams
Written by Sapphire
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1996
Price: $13.00
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.
Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins gunned down by a Korean... Read more >
Written by Sapphire
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1996
Price: $13.00
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.
Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins gunned down by a Korean... 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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Phenomenal Woman
Four Poems Celebrating Women
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 17, 1995
Price: $11.95
Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the... Read more >
Four Poems Celebrating Women
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 17, 1995
Price: $11.95
Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Price: $13.95
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels... Read more >
Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Price: $13.95
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels... Read more >
Also available as an
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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: $25.95
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: $25.95
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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Random House Treasury of Favorite Love Poems, Second Edition
Written by Random House
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $11.95
Favorite love poems of the ages--from medieval times to the 21st century--honoring love in its many stages: from longing to rapture, worship to dedication, torment to tenderness.
·Features more than 150 poets, including W.H. Auden, Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anne Sexton, and other familiar greats
·Newly updated. Now includes more... Read more >
Written by Random House
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $11.95
Favorite love poems of the ages--from medieval times to the 21st century--honoring love in its many stages: from longing to rapture, worship to dedication, torment to tenderness.
·Features more than 150 poets, including W.H. Auden, Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anne Sexton, and other familiar greats
·Newly updated. Now includes more... Read more >
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
