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The Intent On
Collected Poems 1962-2006
Written by Kenneth Irby
Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $40.00
Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such... Read more >
Collected Poems 1962-2006
Written by Kenneth Irby
Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $40.00
Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such... Read more >
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A Phone Call to the Future
New and Selected Poems
Written by Mary Jo Salter
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $19.00
This “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years of “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation... Read more >
New and Selected Poems
Written by Mary Jo Salter
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $19.00
This “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years of “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Wheeling Motel
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.95
In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.
From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.95
In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.
From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by... Read more >
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Chinese Apples
New and Selected Poems
Written by W.S. Di Piero
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
Now in paperback: the “lovely and evocative book” (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poet’s suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of... Read more >
New and Selected Poems
Written by W.S. Di Piero
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
Now in paperback: the “lovely and evocative book” (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poet’s suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Earlier Poems
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover how large this poet’s gift was from the start. Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover how large this poet’s gift was from the start. Read more >
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Ten Commandments
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers... Read more >
Written by J.D. McClatchy
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Pocket Emily Dickinson
Written by Emily Dickinson
Edited by Brenda Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $6.95
A selection of authentic versions of the best poems of America’s most popular poet–in a beautiful miniature edition.
Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery, have... Read more >
Written by Emily Dickinson
Edited by Brenda Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $6.95
A selection of authentic versions of the best poems of America’s most popular poet–in a beautiful miniature edition.
Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery, have... Read more >
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Smoke from This Altar
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all... Read more >
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Captivity
Poems
Written by Laurie Sheck
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood. Read more >
Poems
Written by Laurie Sheck
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood. Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Crooked Inheritance
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
An “exquisite . . . spot on” (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as... Read more >
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
An “exquisite . . . spot on” (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as... Read more >
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The Beforelife
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Unswept Room
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Collected Poems
Written by Donald Justice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2009
Price: $16.95
This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.”... Read more >
Written by Donald Justice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2009
Price: $16.95
This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.”... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Endpoint and Other Poems
Unabridged Selections
Written by John Updike
Read by Charles McGrath
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $10.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
Unabridged Selections
Written by John Updike
Read by Charles McGrath
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $10.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
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Substrate
Poems
Written by Jim A. Powell
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” Substrate gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jim A. Powell
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” Substrate gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Substrate
Poems
Written by Jim A. Powell
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” Substrate gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jim A. Powell
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” Substrate gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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A Curious Collection of Cats
Written by Betsy Franco
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.99
The quirky ways of cats are exquisitely captured in more than thirty original visual poems. From acrobat-flipping to toilet-bowl-sipping, couch-scratching to dog-catching, this insightful collection celebrates the fickle feline in ways that any cat lover will appreciate.
"Every cat lover in the universe ought to own this endearingly wacky collection of poems... Read more >
Written by Betsy Franco
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.99
The quirky ways of cats are exquisitely captured in more than thirty original visual poems. From acrobat-flipping to toilet-bowl-sipping, couch-scratching to dog-catching, this insightful collection celebrates the fickle feline in ways that any cat lover will appreciate.
"Every cat lover in the universe ought to own this endearingly wacky collection of poems... Read more >
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The Dance Most of All
Poems
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
A remarkable late-in-life collection, elegiac and bracing, from master poet Jack Gilbert, whose Refusing Heaven captivated the poetry world and won the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
In these characteristically bold and nuanced poems, Gilbert looks back at the passions of a life—the... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
A remarkable late-in-life collection, elegiac and bracing, from master poet Jack Gilbert, whose Refusing Heaven captivated the poetry world and won the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
In these characteristically bold and nuanced poems, Gilbert looks back at the passions of a life—the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way
Poems
Written by Ethan Coen
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.00
From the fabulously creative filmmaker who wrote and produced movies such as Fargo, Barton Fink, and Blood Simple, this is a provocative, revealing, and often hilarious collection of poems that offers insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.
In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan... Read more >
Poems
Written by Ethan Coen
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.00
From the fabulously creative filmmaker who wrote and produced movies such as Fargo, Barton Fink, and Blood Simple, this is a provocative, revealing, and often hilarious collection of poems that offers insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.
In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way
Poems
Written by Ethan Coen
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.00
Provocative, revealing, and often hilarious poems by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of No Country for Old Men
In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan Coen surprises and delights us with a rich brew of ideas, observations, and perceptions. In his first collection of poems he does much the same. The range of his... Read more >
Poems
Written by Ethan Coen
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.00
Provocative, revealing, and often hilarious poems by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of No Country for Old Men
In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan Coen surprises and delights us with a rich brew of ideas, observations, and perceptions. In his first collection of poems he does much the same. The range of his... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Burnt Island
Written by D. Nurkse
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes... Read more >
Written by D. Nurkse
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Refusing Heaven
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
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: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Endpoint and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Endpoint and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Earlier Poems
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $26.95
The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover how large this poet’s gift was from the start.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $26.95
The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover how large this poet’s gift was from the start.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
