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Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
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Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
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hardcover.
The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
The Great Ledge
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $9.99
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and... Read more >
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $9.99
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and... Read more >
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Skinned
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume... Read more >
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eBook.
Loose Woman
Poems
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $9.99
Poems
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $9.99
NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME
With her novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, Sandra Cisneros introduced one of the most lyrically inventive voices ever to emerge from the barrio. Now she gives us a book of poems with the lilt of NORTEÑO music and the romantic abandon of...
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Skinned
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Monolithos
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
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Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
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Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
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Across the Land and the Water
Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.00
“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the... Read more >
Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.00
“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the... Read more >
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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest... Read more >
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest... Read more >
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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or... Read more >
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Coral Road
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
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Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the... Read more >
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the... Read more >
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Rimbaud Complete
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Edited by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Introduction by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $13.99
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete,... Read more >
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Edited by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Introduction by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $13.99
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete,... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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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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Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
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