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  • The Art Of Drowning

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    This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music.

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Collins, Billy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 15 1995
    • ISBN10: 0822955679
    • Language: English
  • The Back Country

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    This collection is made up of four sections: “Far West”–poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; “Far East”–poems written betwee… [more below]

    • Author: Snyder, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: January 17 1971
    • ISBN10: 0811201945
    • Language: English
  • Eyes, Stones

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    In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    The poems inv

  • The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

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    Kay Ryan’s recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet-… [more below]

    • Author: Ryan, Kay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 02 2011
    • ISBN10: 0802145213
    • Language: English
  • Spoon River Anthology: 100th Anniversary Edition

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    In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandal… [more below]

    • Series: Signet Classics
    • Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 03 2007
    • ISBN10: 0451530586
    • Language: English
  • Notwithstanding

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    If Brit Washburn were a painter she would be like Vermeer, following a certain slant of illumination into a dimly lit interior, drawing our attention to the pear on the table, or the child’s tiny curl

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    • Author: Washburn, Brit
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 110
    • Publish Date: October 21 2019
    • ISBN10: 1732436959
    • Language: English
  • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997

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    Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life–beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees po[more below]

    • Author: Berry, Wendell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 19 1999
    • ISBN10: 1582430063
    • Language: English
  • Water Look Away

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    Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity.

    “Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself

    loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live.”… [more below]

    • Author: Hicok, Bob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1556596502
    • Language: English
  • Notes from the Passenger

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    Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.

    From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Co

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    • Author: Conoley, Gillian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621726
    • Language: English
  • Spin Infinity: Poems

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    In her attentive and introspective debut, Lynn Rather assembles decades of work plumbing the abundant depths of daily life. With one eye always trained on the eternal, this collection urges its reader

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    • Author: Rather, Lynn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: March 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798218128128
    • Language: English
  • Love’s Wishbone: poems

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    Love’s Wishbone by Robert Pfeiffer are the poems of a father, a husband, a human, at midlife – melancholy, nostalgic, tinged with regret, yet ultimately hopeful for the future. These poems look backwa

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    • Author: Pfeiffer, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: January 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 163210105X
    • Language: English
  • Questions about Angels: Poems

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    Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, “I have never before felt possessive about a p… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Collins, Billy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: January 07 1999
    • ISBN10: 0822956985
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition)

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    The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America’s most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).

    • Author: Kees, Weldon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: December 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0803278098
    • Language: English
  • Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002

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    Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Mart? Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. Alabanza means praise in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whi

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    • Author: Espada, Mart?n
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 250
    • Publish Date: January 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0393326217
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems, 1930-1993

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    Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America’s best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection – the first in twenty years – celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen … [more below]

    • Author: Sarton, May
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: January 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0393034933
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler’s achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century’s truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most si

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Schuyler, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530890
    • Language: English
  • Prodigal

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    Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena.

    But always in “the music of

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    • Author: Walcott, Derek
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 21 2006
    • ISBN10: 0374530165
    • Language: English
  • Above the River: The Complete Poems

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    One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few–then

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    • Author: Wright, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: April 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0374522820
    • Language: English
  • Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

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    A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems

    Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reach

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    • Author: Bukowski, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 006265652X
    • Language: English
  • An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness: Poems

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    An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness catalogs our daily disappointments and our nighty dreams of perfection. Entry by entry, in poems that shift under the weight of their formal pro… [more below]

    • Author: Newman, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 0892556021
    • Language: English
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