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Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $8.99
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
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A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $8.99
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
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Three Centuries of American Poetry
Edited by Allen Mandelbaum and Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $20.99
A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams... Read more >
Edited by Allen Mandelbaum and Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $20.99
A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams... Read more >
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Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial... Read more >
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial... 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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Our World
Written by Mary Oliver
Photographed by Molly Malone Cook
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Her partner Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was a photographer and pioneer gallery owner. Intertwining Oliver's prose with Cook's photographs, Our World is an intimate testament to their life... Read more >
Written by Mary Oliver
Photographed by Molly Malone Cook
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Her partner Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was a photographer and pioneer gallery owner. Intertwining Oliver's prose with Cook's photographs, Our World is an intimate testament to their life... Read more >
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Poemcrazy
Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $11.99
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems... Read more >
Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $11.99
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems... Read more >
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Leaving Yuba City
Poems
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $11.99
Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in... Read more >
Poems
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $11.99
Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in... 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: $20.00
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: $20.00
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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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: $13.99
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: $13.99
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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The Sonnets and Other Poems
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $2.99
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $2.99
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same... Read more >
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
Written by T.S. Eliot
Introduction by Mary Karr
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $7.99
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence... Read more >
Written by T.S. Eliot
Introduction by Mary Karr
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $7.99
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence... Read more >
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Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth
Written by Gerrit Lansing
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.
A distinguished figure of American letters, whose... Read more >
Written by Gerrit Lansing
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.
A distinguished figure of American letters, whose... Read more >
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $13.99
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $13.99
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
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Cold Mountain Poems
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J. P. Seaton
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $18.95
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (<st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:placename w:st="on">Cold</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountain</st1:placetype> </st1:place>) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and... Read more >
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J. P. Seaton
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $18.95
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (<st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:placename w:st="on">Cold</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountain</st1:placetype> </st1:place>) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and... 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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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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The Pocket Emily Dickinson
Written by Emily Dickinson
Edited by Brenda Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $7.95
Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was one of the most prolific and innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal life in <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:city w:st="on">Amherst</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state> </st1:place>, her distinctively short lines, and eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization... Read more >
Written by Emily Dickinson
Edited by Brenda Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $7.95
Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was one of the most prolific and innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal life in <st1:place w:st="on"> <st1:city w:st="on">Amherst</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state> </st1:place>, her distinctively short lines, and eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization... Read more >
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The Mind-Body Problem
Poems
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $13.99
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: $13.99
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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Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero
Poems
Written by Brooks Haxton
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $13.99
The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husband, father, and poet. Diverse... Read more >
Poems
Written by Brooks Haxton
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $13.99
The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husband, father, and poet. Diverse... 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: $11.99
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: $11.99
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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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 an
eBook.
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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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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 >
