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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
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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 >
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 >
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Poems and Songs
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $13.50
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world.
In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and... Read more >
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $13.50
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world.
In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and... Read more >
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Risking Everything
110 Poems of Love and Revelation
Edited by Roger Housden
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
110 Poems of Love and Revelation
Edited by Roger Housden
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
Also available as an
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Plath: Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1998
Price: $13.50
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on... Read more >
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1998
Price: $13.50
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
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Sky Above, Great Wind
The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
Written by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $17.95
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He... Read more >
The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
Written by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $17.95
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He... Read more >
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Poem a Day: Volume One
Edited by Karen McCosker and Nicholas Albery
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1998
Price: $19.95
Once upon a time men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. Poems are meant to be voiced and A Poem a Day includes 366... Read more >
Edited by Karen McCosker and Nicholas Albery
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1998
Price: $19.95
Once upon a time men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. Poems are meant to be voiced and A Poem a Day includes 366... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
Written by Emily Dickinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 3, 1959
Price: $12.00
This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains unsurpassed in... Read more >
Written by Emily Dickinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 3, 1959
Price: $12.00
This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains unsurpassed in... Read more >
