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Poetry 180
A Turning Back to Poetry
Edited by Billy Collins
Introduction by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $15.00
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure.
A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in... Read more >
A Turning Back to Poetry
Edited by Billy Collins
Introduction by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $15.00
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure.
A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in... Read more >
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Written by Roger Housden
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
Written by Roger Housden
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
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The Aeneid
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $13.00
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Read more >
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $13.00
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Read more >
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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 >
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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
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 to unlock the...
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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
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Thirst
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $15.00
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: $15.00
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 >
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Frost: Poems
Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $13.50
rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, "... Read more >
Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $13.50
rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, "... Read more >
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eBook.
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Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2005
Price: $15.00
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world... Read more >
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2005
Price: $15.00
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world... Read more >
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The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
