Fifteen Poems
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $1.99
This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.
Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him...
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Poesia completa
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $17.00
La obra poética completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen Además de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesía es el alma de su obra. Indisociable de sus cuentos y ensayos, estos poemas son parte indispensable del universo borgiano...
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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...
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180 More
Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
Edited by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2005
Price: $15.95
Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide...
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Written by Langston Hughes
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 26, 2011
Price: $13.99
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...
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The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.
With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and...
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Morning Haiku
Written by Sonia Sanchez
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $14.00
From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement, poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages A collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism.
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Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1997
Price: $13.95
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels...
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The Black Poets
Written by Dudley Randall
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $7.99
"The claim of
The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black...
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