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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

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Love & Misadventure

Lang Leav · 176 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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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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Thirst

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.

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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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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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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda · 996 pages

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Black Butterfly

Robert M. Drake · 272 pages

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A Shropshire Lad

A.E. Housman · 95 pages

First published in 1896, this is Housman's first and most widely known collection of poems. Dismal and fatalistic, Housman speaks of the cruelty of life. In contrast to the dreary subject matter, the poetry itself is brisk and lively. Considered by many to be among the finest works of modern British poetry.

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Bilbo's Last Song

J.R.R. Tolkien · 32 pages

Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind. Pauline Baynes’s jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both

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What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe · 91 pages

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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.

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Selected Poems

Marina Tsvetaeva · 160 pages

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Platero and I

Juan Ramon Jimenez · 218 pages

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Stag's Leap: Poems

Sharon Olds · 96 pages

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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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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"--

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Poems of Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova · 173 pages

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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

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The Flame

Leonard Cohen · 277 pages

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