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Black Butterfly

Robert M. Drake · 272 pages

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The Anatomy of Being

Shinji Moon · 104 pages

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Stag's Leap: Poems

Sharon Olds · 96 pages

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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Robert Frost · 130 pages

"A deluxe edition of Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem alo

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A Night Without Armor

Jewel · 149 pages

In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic

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The Butterfly's Burden

Mahmoud Darwish · 326 pages

Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world.

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Poems of Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova · 173 pages

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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

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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Leonard Cohen · 415 pages

Some of the best work of one of the most enduring poet/songwriters of our time collectedWhen his fist album was released in 1967, Leonard Cohen was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' hugely popular recording of 'Suzanne. ' With the sucess of the first and through the release of ten more albums, Cohen Gained a

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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

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Mouthful of Forevers

Clementine von Radics · 112 pages

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Selected Poems

Marina Tsvetaeva · 160 pages

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Dickinson: Poems

Emily Dickinson · 395 pages

In selecting these poems for commentary the author chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, from her first person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath. Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often ant

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Delights and Shadows

Ted Kooser · 91 pages

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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.

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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.

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The Collected Poems

Sergei Yesenin · 130 pages

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Dog Songs

Mary Oliver · 144 pages

"Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver's relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the su

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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.

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda · 68 pages

Synopsis: First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the ge

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Collected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay · 757 pages

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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

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Poems New and Collected

Wislawa Szymborska · 296 pages

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