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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 >
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $15.99
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.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $15.99
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.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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Leaves of Grass
The "Death-Bed" Edition
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1993
Price: $22.95
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice... Read more >
The "Death-Bed" Edition
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1993
Price: $22.95
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice... Read more >
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House of Light
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 8, 1992
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Read more >
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 8, 1992
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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eBook.
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Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $14.00
Poems and Prose Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $14.00
“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so...
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The Love Poems of Rumi
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $13.00
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: $13.00
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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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Introduction by Robert Hass
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.95
"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. Read more >
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Introduction by Robert Hass
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.95
"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. Read more >
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Plath: Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1998
Price: $13.50
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on... Read more >
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1998
Price: $13.50
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on... Read more >
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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 >
