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Cane

Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd · 224 pages

Published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane was widely heralded as one of the first masterpieces of the Harlem Renaissance, and its author as “a bright morning star” of the movement. Toomer himself, however, was reluctant to embrace an explicitly racialized identity, preferring to define himself as simply an American writer. Inspired in part by Sherwood Anderson’s short story cycle Winesburg, Ohio , T

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Maldoror and the Complete Works

Comte de Lautreamont · 352 pages

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Platero and I

Juan Ramon Jimenez · 218 pages

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Wandering

Hermann Hesse · 91 pages

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The Complete Poems 1927-1979

Elizabeth Bishop · 287 pages

A collection of 149 poems by the author.

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Winter Trees

Sylvia Plath · 64 pages

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The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot · 79 pages

Arguably the single most important poem of the Twentieth Century, paving the way for experimental verse for the next hundred years.

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Truyện Kiều : Nguyễn Du

Nguyen Du · 347 pages

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A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud · 64 pages

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Collected Poems

W.H. Auden · 976 pages

This is a reprint of the original 1976 edition, with corrections made by The Estate of W.H. Auden.

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Metamorphoses

Ovid · 394 pages

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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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Message

Fernando Pessoa · 82 pages

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Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg · 104 pages

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Poems New and Collected

Wislawa Szymborska · 296 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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Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings · 208 pages

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The Collected Poems

Theodore Roethke · 274 pages

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 50 pages

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance literature

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange · 64 pages

First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

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Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin · 233 pages

The Russians, revering Alexander Pushkin as a national hero, see his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, as the pinnacle not only of his oeuvre, but of their entire literature. Its brilliant sonnets are traditionally memorized by youngsters, and even today nearly any Russian adult can quote many passages with fervor. No literary work plays a comparable role in the English-speaking world. The plot swir

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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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