Best Loved Poems of American People
Written by Hazel Felleman
Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1936
Price: $22.95
More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a collection that will be treasured.
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Inferno
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $14.00
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave DoréA groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences.
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Collected Poems
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $35.00
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $13.99
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...
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Celebrations
Rituals of Peace and Prayer
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $16.95
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou has served as our common...
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Dance Me to the End of Love
Written by Leonard Cohen
Illustrated by Henri Matisse
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $19.95
10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series,
Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely...
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
Poems and Essays
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to
Owls and Other Fantasies and
Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit...
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Ardency
A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Written by Kevin Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $19.95
Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion.Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship
Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told...
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Auden: Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1995
Price: $13.50
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content.
Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One of English poetry's great...
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Stag's Leap
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $26.95
In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that...
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