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Mary Oliver · 79 pages
In this collection of 43 new poems the author grapples with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years. She strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not it end. She also chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam · 109 pages
Blue/Green Hardcover, pasted illustrations believed to be done by Willy Pogany, no pub. date, Thomas Crowell New York. Cover has gold decor.small miniature book. Written by Edward Fitzgerald.
In the Presence of Absence
Mahmoud Darwish, mHmwd drwysh · 200 pages
"Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish's self-eelgy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death,
Lullabies
Lang Leav · 235 pages
Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 108 pages
An epic poem set during the expulsion of the Acadians from Acadie, following the fictional Evangeline and her search for her lost love, Gabriel.
The Fall of Arthur
J.R.R. Tolkien · 236 pages
The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.
The Simple Truth
Philip Levine · 69 pages
The National Book Award-winning poet presents thirty-three poems that interweave a complex web of myth, public and private history, family, memory, and invention as they explore the timeless truths of human existence.
Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey · 57 pages
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey's elegiac *Native Guard* is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze a
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 770 pages
The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.
The Butterfly's Burden
Mahmoud Darwish · 326 pages
Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world.
Bright Dead Things
Ada Limon · 116 pages
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne Carson · 153 pages
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice--29 "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartb
Human Chain
Seamus Heaney · 96 pages
"Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidaritiesb︣etween husband and wife, child and parent, then and nowi︣nside an intently remembered present: the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versio
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems
Tove Ditlevsen · 171 pages
Canti
Giacomo Leopardi · 176 pages
Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi, generally considered to be one of the most significant works of Italian poetry.
Poems 1962-2012
Louise Gluck · 656 pages
It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The re