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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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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: eBook, 1408 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $17.95
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Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: eBook, 1408 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $17.95
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Easy
Poems
Written by Marie Ponsot
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00
Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in... Read more >
Poems
Written by Marie Ponsot
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00
Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in... Read more >
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News of the World
Poems
Written by Philip Levine
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).
In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent... Read more >
Poems
Written by Philip Levine
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).
In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent... 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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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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Selected Poems
Written by Frank O'Hara
Edited by Mark Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. Read more >
Written by Frank O'Hara
Edited by Mark Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. Read more >
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Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
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Selected Poems
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $30.00
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any... Read more >
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $30.00
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any... 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 >
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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 >
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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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The Mind-Body Problem
Poems
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $23.00
In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between... Read more >
Poems
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $23.00
In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between... Read more >
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The Mind-Body Problem
Poems
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $23.00
In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between... Read more >
Poems
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $23.00
In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between... Read more >
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hardcover.
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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They Carry a Promise
Selected Poems
Written by Janusz Szuber
Translated by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work he’d been producing for almost thirty years. Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska has called... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Janusz Szuber
Translated by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work he’d been producing for almost thirty years. Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska has called... Read more >
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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 >
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Figurehead
And Other Poems
Written by John Hollander
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
In a major review in The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."
Figurehead, a lively, varied... Read more >
And Other Poems
Written by John Hollander
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
In a major review in The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."
Figurehead, a lively, varied... Read more >
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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 >
