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Death of a Naturalist

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Selected Poems

W.B. Yeats Β· 152 pages

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The Poetry of Robert Frost

Robert Frost Β· 638 pages

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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse Β· 235 pages

"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh

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Annie Dunne

Sebastian Barry Β· 240 pages

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A Line Made by Walking

Sara Baume Β· 321 pages

Retreating to her family's rural house in Ireland to escape the challenges of urban life, artist Frankie explores the chain of events that have challenged her mental stability and art education. As she picks up photography once more, she searches for meaning and healing while examining the natural world around her.

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The Thing About December

Donal Ryan Β· 207 pages

Contemporary fiction. He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, this is a tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is.

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Wild Decembers

Edna O'Brien Β· 264 pages

" ... charts the quick but sure demise of relations between 'the warring sons of warring sons' ... in the countryside of western Ireland."--Back cover.

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Delights and Shadows

Ted Kooser Β· 91 pages

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Geography III

Elizabeth Bishop Β· 50 pages

Miss Bishop's fifth book of poetry includes such recent works as Crusoe in England, Five Flights Up, and the prose poem 12 O'Clock News.

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Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett Β· 184 pages

"Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize "What Bennett aims at is nothing short of a re-enchantment of the world... This is a truly stunning debut, beautifully written and profoundly witty." -The Guardian Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A de

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The Seasons

Kristijonas Donelaitis Β· 130 pages

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Foster

Claire Keegan Β· 108 pages

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house she finds affection she has not known before, and slowly she begins to blossom in their care. But when a secret is suddenly revealed, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.

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Poems New and Collected

Wislawa Szymborska Β· 296 pages

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The Selected Poems

Osip Mandelstam, Osip Mandel'shtam Β· 133 pages

"Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in

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Erotic Poems

E.E. Cummings

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77 Dream Songs

John Berryman

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Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

Fernando Pessoa Β· 297 pages

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most of his life in a furnished room in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Pessoa was as much a creator of personas as he was of poetry, prose, and criticism. He wrote under numerous "heteronyms," or literary alter egos, and i

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The Collected Poems

Sara Teasdale Β· 224 pages

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Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg Β· 104 pages

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Sunstone/Piedra De Sol

Octavio Paz Β· 59 pages

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