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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.”
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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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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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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 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 >
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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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Frost: Poems
Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $12.50
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: $12.50
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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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... 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 >
