Red Bird
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry,
Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for...
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Poesia completa
Written by Federico Garcia Lorca
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.95
La obra poética completa de uno de los escritores más influyentes de la literatura española. La figura de Federico García Lorca abarca, tanto en España como en el exterior, mucho más que su literatura. Su poesía, traducida a infinidad de lenguas, recorre paisajes, hurga en tradiciones y denuncia injusticias con la...
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $32.50
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...
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The Black Poets
Written by Dudley Randall
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $7.99
"The claim of
The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black...
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Love in Verse
Classic Poems of the Heart
Compiled by Kathleen Blease
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1997
Price: $12.00
The world for me, and all the world
can hold, is circled by your arms. . . .
--James Weldon Johnson [p. 48]
True love is eternal--and in poetry, it speaks across the ages to both men and women, reminding us of its power, constancy, and depth. In this lovely literary valentine, nearly...
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The Rumi Daybook
Edited by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $18.95
"My heart wandered through the world
constantly seeking after my cure,
but the sweet and delicious water of life
had to break through the granite of my heart."
When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred...
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Inferno
Written by Dante
Edited by Matthew Pearl
Translated by Henry W. Longfellow
Introduction by Lino Pertile
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.00
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of
Inferno and thus introduced Dante’s literary genius to the New World. In the
Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the...
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The Four Seasons
Poems
Edited by J.D. McClatchy
Introduction by J.D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $13.50
For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.
Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth...
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The Colossus
and Other Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 19, 1998
Price: $14.00
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy...
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The Colossus
and Other Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $9.99
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy...
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