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Harryette Mullen - Sleeping With the Dictionary

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$6.00 - $13.00

Pierre Martory - The Landscapist: Selected Poems

The eminent American poet John Ashbery translates this collection, written by his late friend (and former roommate) Pierre Martory. Ashbery notes in the introduction that Martory was loath to show his work to anyone while he was alive, thus leaving it to Ashbery to rescue this talented poet from utt... Read more

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$15.00 - $16.00

Charles Wright - Black Zodiac

In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with s... Read more

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$7.99 - $8.90

Mary Jo Bang - Elegy

Mary Jo Bang's fifth book of poetry features the same carefully off-kilter free verse and obsessions with the nature of art that preoccupied her previous collections, but in ELEGY, these techniques are no longer the central concern, and have been put into use to memorialize the life of Bang's dead s... Read more

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$7.00 - $15.00

William Matthews - Time & Money: New Poems

A new poetry collection, concerned with themes of irony and temporariness. ... Read more

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$.99 - $14.00

Albert Goldbarth - Saving Lives: Poems

Rembrandt, Houdini, Barnum, and the Hardy Boys gather in this collection of poems by Goldberg in which the drive of his storytelling is met by the erudition of his imagination. Family, identity, and salvation are pondered in poems that are, by turns, witty and grave. ... Read more

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$5.00 - $22.00

Devin Johnston - Sources

Devin Johnston explores the duality of thresholds in his third book of verse. Just as a door may be an entrance or an exit, and a ladder can take you up or down, Johnston's manipulation of his SOURCES, which range from the ancient Greeks to Edward Gorey, shows how memory of the past can be used as a... Read more

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$10.00 - $12.00

Juan Felipe Herrera - Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems

One of the most vibrant and rambunctious poetic voices since he began publishing in the 1960s, Juan Felipe Herrera follows in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg with his kinetic evocations of American life, particularly the experiences of the Mexican American immigrant. HALF OF THE WOR... Read more

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$16.00 - $17.00

Judy Jordan - Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems

James Tate chose this debut collection for the 1999 Walt Whitman Award. Amid the squalor and violence of the subject matter, the beauty of language takes hold. ... Read more

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$4.95 - $13.22

Sherod Santos - A Poetry of Two Minds

This collection of 13 essays (10 of which were published previously in literary journals) focuses on how poems have a mind of their own unbeknownst to the poet. Subject matter includes the work of Shelley, Bishop, and Charles Wright. ... Read more

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$9.95 - $9.95

Brenda Shaughnessy - Human Dark with Sugar

The poetry of Brenda Shaughnessy's second collection begins with the title, which indicates how the use of "sugar" can make human darkness more palatable. In Shaughnessy's case, the "sugar" is humor, which she uses to leaven some decidedly dark aspects of humanity, such as vanity... Read more

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$9.00 - $13.00

Reginald Shepherd - Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

Poet Reginald Shepherd died in 2008, making this, sadly, his first and last book of prose. This collection of his essays, articles, and reviews clearly establishes the liberatory power of poetry and literature. Shepherd's work, including the autobiographical essay about his childhood in the Bronx, a... Read more

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$17.00 - $30.00

Davis McCombs - Ultima Thule

Winner of the Yale Younger Poets series judged by W. S. Merwin, this collection draws on the author's experiences as a Park Ranger at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, using the cave both as a setting for his explorations and as a metaphor for America's racial history. The initial long section imagines the l... Read more

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$12.00 - $16.00

Sharon Olds - The Unswept Room

From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of ... Read more

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$10.00 - $13.00

B. H. Fairchild - Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamersfailed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of The Wizard ... Read more

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$8.18 - $10.17

Adam Zagajewski - Without End: New and Selected Poems

The work of one of Poland's most renowned poets is selected here, restoring to print much that has been long unavailable. New as well as early, previously unpublished poems join the definitive works of Zagajewski's career. Translators include poet Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams. A New Yo... Read more

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$11.00 - $12.00

Bob Hicok - Animal Soul

Observations of contemporary life are scrutinized in this biting third book by Hicok, who has been represented in both the BEST AMERICAN POETRY and PUSHCART anthologies. ... Read more

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$8.00 - $16.00

Robert Hass - Sun Under Wood: New Poems

A finalist for the 1996 National Book Award, "Sun Under Wood" is full of wit and energy, sadness and humor, and a passion for language and experiences, words and ideas. Now in paperback, this collection explores family life, nature, history, and literature in Hass' singular intelligence an... Read more

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$9.00 - $12.00

August Kleinzahler - Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler writes with a deliberately un-gussied-up and nearly hardboiled verse style about fringe existence in America. In SLEEPING IT OFF IN RAPID CITY, Kleinzahler's topics include drunks, strip mall employees, fast food, butter, and various low pleasures. Despite this ... Read more

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$11.00 - $11.00

Jane Hirshfield - Given Sugar, Given Salt

In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."In poems com... Read more

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$8.00 - $12.00

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