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Stevens: Poems: Selected by Helen VendlerThese Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination.Author:...
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An Anthology of Modern Irish PoetryNever before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin...
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Far Side of the EarthWidely considered one of the finest poets of his generation, Tom Sleigh brings to his fifth collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship, mixing the streetwise edginess of popular culture with Greek and Latin references, myth, and dramatic lyrics. Passionately comprehensive in its understanding of...
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NumbersThis brutal and hilarious one-act play was declared one of the greatest plays of all time for women in Lucy Kerbel's volume 100 Great Plays For Women. Set in an all-girls' boarding school, Numbers depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form...
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Village Prodigies"A novel in language as dense and lush and beautiful as poetry . . . [or] a book of poetry with the vivid characters and the narrative force of a novel? Whatever you care to call it, it's a remarkable achievement." -- Richard Russo,...
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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad PoetsSoon to be a major motion picture starring Jason Isaacs, Taylor Russell, and Lisa Edelstein! * "Self-deprecating humor abounds in this debut novel that pulls no punches about the experience of depression and anxiety for its teen protagonist. . . . Captivating introspection from...
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Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of BeastsNaughty children were never funnier than the young rowdies of these Cautionary Tales. In rhyming couplets, accompanied by hilarious drawings, a celebrated wit recounts the perilous consequences of telling lies, slamming doors, and playing with guns. Bad Child's Book of Beasts, an illustrated A-to-Z...
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The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic FormWritten by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.Concise and informal, The Prosody...
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The Divine Comedy Selected Cantos: A Dual-Language BookBegun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante's sublime poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is one of the world's great works of literature. It comprises an extraordinarily vivid and imaginative account of the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife. Complementing its depiction of the...
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IkigaiWe fall in love, we fall out of love. We grow, and inevitably, we outgrow others. "Ikigai" is the story of human emotion, disillusion, and heartbreak as captured through the years of a single relationship. Ikigai transcends gender and audience, as the reader is...
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The SonnetsThe Signet Classic Shakespeare Series--the work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"--these are some of the most famous lines in all of literature. Originally published...
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Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of BostonA collection of two of Robert Frost's most celebrated poems in their original form: A Boy's Will and North of Boston. The publication of A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and...
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Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose FavoritesPresenting a delightful collection of children's favorite Mother Goose rhymes, illustrated with full-color paintings by Tomie dePaola. Young readers and their parents will enjoy meeting up with familiar friends, including Old King Cole, Little Bo-Peep, Jack and Jill, and many more in a book...
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Neruda: Selected PoemsThe collected poems of prolific Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, his...
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Gather Together in My NameIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity. "A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not...
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Garbage"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning--'this, ' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life--not that of human beings alone, but every species--is shown to be part of an ultimate...
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Memorial: A Version of Homer's IliadIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad--the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen--in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and...
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The Undressing: PoemsThe Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, as well as the...
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Rimbaud CompleteEnduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying...
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Book of Hours: PoemsA decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of...
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