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Refusing Heaven
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life... Read more >
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life... Read more >
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Ahead of All Parting
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $24.95
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $24.95
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Collected Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections... Read more >
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections... Read more >
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The Dead and the Living
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $18.00
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $18.00
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. Read more >
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Art and Artists
Poems
Edited by Emily Fragos
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $13.50
Poems
Edited by Emily Fragos
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $13.50
Art and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse—the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.
A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy...
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Plainwater
Essays and Poetry
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2000
Price: $16.00
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern... Read more >
Essays and Poetry
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2000
Price: $16.00
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern... Read more >
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April Twilights and Other Poems
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
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The Aeneid
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In dramatic and narrative power, Virgil’s Aeneid is the equal of its great Homeric predecessors, The Iliad and The Odyssey. It surpasses them, however, in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actors–a sympathy that makes events such as Aeneas’s escape from Troy and search for a... Read more >
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: Hardcover, 520 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In dramatic and narrative power, Virgil’s Aeneid is the equal of its great Homeric predecessors, The Iliad and The Odyssey. It surpasses them, however, in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actors–a sympathy that makes events such as Aeneas’s escape from Troy and search for a... Read more >
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Wordsworth: Poems
Written by William Wordsworth
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1995
Price: $13.50
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Written by William Wordsworth
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1995
Price: $13.50
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Poems
Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $13.50
One of America’s most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich... Read more >
Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $13.50
One of America’s most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich... Read more >
