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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
Written by Virgil, Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307819017
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The Aeneid

Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald


Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $9.99

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Read more >
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Evidence
Evidence
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780807069059
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Evidence
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver


Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $14.00

Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from...

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Written by Langston Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679728184
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Written by Langston Hughes


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00

With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue... Read more >
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House of Light

Written by Mary Oliver


Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
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.


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Love Poems
Love Poems
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679429067
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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... Read more >
Goethe's Faust
Goethe's Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Translated by Walter Kaufmann, Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385031141
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Goethe's Faust

Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann


Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $11.95

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. Read more >
Swan
Swan
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780807069141
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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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The Rumi Collection
The Rumi Collection
Written by Jelaluddin Rumi, Edited by Kabir Helminski, Introduction by Andrew Harvey
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781590302514
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The Rumi Collection

Written by Jelaluddin Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Introduction by Andrew Harvey


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2005
Price: $18.95

Rumi's poems are beloved for their touching perceptions of humanity and the Divine. Here is a rich introduction to the work of the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse. Translators include Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson... Read more >
The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
Written by William Blake, Edited by David V. Erdman, Commentaries by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385152136
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The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake

Written by William Blake
Edited by David V. Erdman
Commentaries by Harold Bloom


Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: March 5, 1997
Price: $27.00

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition  has been widely hailed as the best available text  of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if  includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of  poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom.

An  "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly  Editions of the Modern Language Association. Read more >
Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Written by Kenneth Goldsmith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781576876367
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Seven American Deaths and Disasters

Written by Kenneth Goldsmith


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95

What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the... Read more >
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