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The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems

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Enough Rope

Dorothy Parker

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Serious Concerns

Wendy Cope · 91 pages

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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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Falling Up

Shel Silverstein · 176 pages

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

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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 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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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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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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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 Real Mother Goose

Blanche Fisher Wright · 128 pages

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

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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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Sleeping With the Dictionary

Harryette Mullen · 85 pages

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, *Sleeping with the Dictionary*, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, *Roget's Thesaurus* and *The American Heritage Dictionary*. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while *Roget* seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the *American Herit

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Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

Richard Brautigan · 85 pages

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The Dragons are Singing Tonight

Jack Prelutsky · 39 pages

A collection of poems about dragons, including "I'm an Amiable Dragon," "If You Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My Computer."

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Lewis Carroll · 92 pages

This is quite difficult get hold of. It was expertly illustrated by AB Frost whose illustartion surpass those of Tenniels for the Alice stories and those for Sylive and Bruno. It's a collection of first class poetry in the surreal nature of Edward Lear and Spike Milligan but with that same strangeness that Lewis Carrol is noted for and in the same vein as the classic The Hunting Of The Snark. A v

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Alligator Pie

Dennis Lee · 64 pages

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If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries

Judith Viorst · 56 pages

Forty-one poems reveal a variety of secret thoughts, worries, and wishes.

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The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Robert W. Service · 99 pages

Contains the verse of Robert Service including "The shooting of Dan McGrew," "The cremation of Sam McGee," "My Madonna," and others.

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