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Enough Rope

Dorothy Parker

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Serious Concerns

Wendy Cope · 91 pages

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Falling Up

Shel Silverstein · 176 pages

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

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Collected Poems

Philip Larkin

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Poems New and Collected

Wislawa Szymborska · 296 pages

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Archy and Mehitabel

Don Marquis · 196 pages

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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Charles Bukowski · 409 pages

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M

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Complete Poems

Marianne Moore · 320 pages

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Go the Fuck to Sleep

Adam Mansbach · 32 pages

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The Real Mother Goose

Blanche Fisher Wright · 128 pages

An illustrated collection of popular nursery rhymes, reprinted from the 1916 original.

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot · 56 pages

T. S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first published in 1939. They were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical Cats. Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning Axel Scheffler, this captivating edition makes a wonderful new home for Mr.

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The Tent

Margaret Atwood · 158 pages

The Tent is a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2006. Although classified with Atwood’s short fiction, The Tent has been characterized as an “experimental” collection of “fictional essays" or “mini-fictions.” The work also incorporates line drawings by Atwood. Source: [Wikipedia][1] [1]: https://g.co/kgs/6Gge4p

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Dirty Beasts

Roald Dahl · 32 pages

A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people.

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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

Marilyn Singer · 32 pages

A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

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Nursery Rhyme Comics

Chris Duffy · 128 pages

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Once I Ate a Pie

Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan Charest

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When We Were Very Young

A.A. Milne · 102 pages

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

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What Narcissism Means to Me

Tony Hoagland · 111 pages

From the Publisher: In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces of American culture. In playful narratives, lyrical outbursts, and overheard conversations, Hoagland cruises the milieu, exploring the spiritual vacancies of American satisfaction. With humor, rich tonal complexity

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A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson · 69 pages

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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood · 73 pages

"A breathtaking new collection from one of today's boldest and most adventurous poets; Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood's second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? What would Walt Whitma

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Face

Sherman Alexie · 159 pages

From the Publisher: In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book R

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The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy · 86 pages

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The Erotic Poems

Ovid · 449 pages

Poems include elegies to Ovid's mistress, advice on courtship, suggestions on how to break off a relationship, and a discussion of the art of cosmetics.

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