The Autobiography of Red
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in...
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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...
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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
“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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Love Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $13.50
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Paradise Lost
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $12.00
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s...
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