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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
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Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a... ( read more)
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The Florist's Daughter
by Patricia Hampl
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During the long farewell of her mothers dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her midwestern girlhood.Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a... ( read more)
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W. H. Auden : Collected Poems (91 Edition)
by Auden W. H.
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Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.    Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from... ( read more)
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Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... ( read more)
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa
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A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains. Editor Liz Nakazawa describes the... ( read more)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that... ( read more)
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
by William Stafford
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I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's... ( read more)
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Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963
by Sylvia Plath
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"Finally now, young women writers can cease to identify with the apparent self-destroyer in Sylvia Plath and begin to understand the forces she had to reckon with. What comes across in these letters is a survivor, who knew that to be a writer means... ( read more)
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Void of Course (Penguin Poets)
by Jim Carroll
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In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara. Carroll's first... ( read more)
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An Explanation of America (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
by Robert Pinsky
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"I can't imagine anyone who, after reading An Explanation of America, wouldn't want to return to it again and again." William H. Pritchard... ( read more)
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Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
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For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path... ( read more)
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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Here is the real Emily Dickinson -- the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade editions of the poet's work.... ( read more)
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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
by Theodore Roethke
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This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners "The Walking, Words for the Wind, and "The Far Field.... ( read more)
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William Blake
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.... ( read more)
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Granted
by Mary Szybist
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Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love-particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting... ( read more)
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Unabridged Journalsof Sylvia Plath (00 Edition)
by Sylvia Plath
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First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath... ( read more)
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Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A new printing of Ferlinghetti's classic. The title of this vibrant collection of poems is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, and expresses the way Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950s... ( read more)
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
by Billy Collins
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Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.... ( read more)
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The Gift
by Hafiz
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More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest... ( read more)
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