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...
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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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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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If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the...
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Red Doc>
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names.
To...
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Thirst
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $15.00
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and...
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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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Phenomenal Woman
Four Poems Celebrating Women
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 17, 1995
Price: $11.95
Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the...
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Collected Poems: Auden
Written by W. H. Auden
Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1991
Price: $26.00
Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.
This collection presents all the...
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