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Bucolics
$17.00 Add to cartUntitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gra
- Author: Manning, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0156034751
- Language: English
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The Seven Ages
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova
Louise Gl ck has long practiced poetry as a species of c
- Author: Gluck, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933496
- Language: English
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My Life and My Life in the Nineties
$16.95 Add to cartNew edition of one of the founding works of Language writing
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573515
- Language: English
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This Afterlife: Selected Poems
$24.00 Add to cartA selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.
This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607834
- Language: English
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Up Late: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartReeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the p
- Author: Laird, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065443
- Language: English
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Ghost: : Seeds: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of The 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn
Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST:: SEEDS incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and troubl- Author: Merrill, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1680033514
- Language: English
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
$18.95 Add to cartAn award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: April 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0819512117
- Language: English
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Life Can Be Crazy
$14.99 Add to cartBorn in Brooklyn in 1949, Garry Zafrani grew up in a working-class family. As soon as he could get out of his family’s house, he moved to Manhattan, eager to explore the city’s cultural scene. He quic
- Author: Zafrani, M. Garry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988084907
- Language: English
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Butterfly Nebula
$17.95 Add to cartGold Medal in Poetry for the 2024 Illumination Book Awards
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections o- Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
- Author: Hogan, Laura Reece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236106
- Language: English
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White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver, a collection of evocative and haunting poetry and prose
“Oliver’s poems are…as genuine, moving and implausible as the first c
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0156001209
- Language: English
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The Descent of Alette
$20.00 Add to cartThe Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds hers… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140587640
- Language: English
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
$17.00 Add to cartMark Doty’s prose has been hailed as “tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene” (The New York Times Book Review) and “achingly beautiful” (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he of… [more below]
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0807066095
- Language: English
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Ways of Being
$16.99 Add to cart“The poems in this award-winning collection reveal a bold voice that brings us on a tour through emotional and literal landscapes as fluid as the tides.”
-Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate an
- Author: Mookherjee, Sati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1936657740
- Language: English
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Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartBefore Maggie Nelson’s name became synonymous with such genre-defying, binary-slaying writing as The Argonauts and The Art of Cruelty, this collection of poetry introduced readers to a singular voice … [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1593762305
- Language: English
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A Coney Island of the Mind
$11.95 Add to cartThe title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s “Into the Night Life” and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950’s–as … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperback No. 74
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 93
- Publish Date: January 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0811200418
- Language: English
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Thomas and Beulah
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0887480217
- Language: English
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Odes to Lithium
$17.95 Add to cartCaptivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder. In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication fo
- Author: Erlichman, Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1948579030
- Language: English
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Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
$16.99 Add to cart“On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read.” -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0395850878
- Language: English
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Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0807069140
- Language: English
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The Second O of Sorrow
$17.00 Add to cartA lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1942683553
- Language: English
