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  • CARVER A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson - Hardcover
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    CARVER A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson - Hardcover

    George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

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  • Happy, Okay? : Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival by M.J. Fievre - Paperback

    Happy, Okay? : Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival by M.J. Fievre - Paperback

    Confront Depression, Anxiety, Grief, and Loss Through Poetry

    Are the usual depression books helping you find a path to healing? No? Try this poetry collection especially for those dealing with mental illness and for people closest to them.

    Happy, Okay? is a beautifully written meditation filled with poignant and lyrical revelations on the joys, pains, and complications of life and the daily struggle to survive, create, and love.”―Edwidge Danticat, internationally acclaimed Haitian-American novelist and short story writer

    Create hope for the future. Paloma is faking it. On the outside, she’s A-Okay. She’s electrified at work, there is a cadence in her step as she walks her dog, she posts memes on Facebook, and she keeps up with most relationships. Looks can be deceiving, however. Inside, Paloma is just going through the motions, and she feels like things are spiraling out of control. But when things are at their darkest, dawn arrives with clarity and focus, and with it, healing. Paloma learns to value small glimmering moments of joy rather than searching for constant happiness, thus building hope for her future.

    A manifesto for life. Happy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival is not simply a narrative spun in verse by a masterful poet. It is an invitation to readers to shake off the stigma and silence of mental illness and find strength in the only voice that matters: your own. It can be an electric roadmap to healing and a manifesto for wholeness.

    In this inspiring and heartwarming book, you will:

    • Understand how to make happiness a decision, even when you don’t feel it in your bones
    • Find out how to exercise patience and self-acceptance
    • Attract hope and purpose back into your life


    Fans of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in this One by Amanda Lovelace, Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim, Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn, or Nothing is Okay by Rachel Wiley will love Happy, Okay? by M.J. Fievre.

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  • Time's Power : Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich - Paperback
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    Time's Power : Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich - Paperback

    Time's Power is a new book by a major American poet, and a landmark in a distinguished ongoing career.

    For thirty years, Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life―sexualities, loves, damages, struggles―as inseparable from a wider social condition, a world with others, in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the source of human hope. Now her mature vision engages with the power of time itself: memory and its contradictions, the ebb and flow between parents and children, the deaths we all face sooner or later, the meaning of human responsibility in all this.

    "Letters in the Family," for example, is written in the voices of three women―from the Spanish Civil War, from a Jewish rescue mission behind Nazi lines, and from present-day Southern Africa. Time's Powershows Rich writing with unprecedented range, complexity, and authority.

    From Publishers Weekly

    In her 14th collection, Rich, National Book Award winner ( Diving into the Wreck ), stokes the political passion for which she is well known. But she writes here with a quicker rhythm; the clipped, almost abridged quality of her lines suggests a desire to cut away excess, to distill what is essential: "we're serious now/about death . . . we're learning to be true/with her
    Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • The Spirit Level : Poems by Seamus Heaney, Winner Nobel Prize - Paperback
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    The Spirit Level : Poems by Seamus Heaney, Winner Nobel Prize - Paperback

    The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing."

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  • Robert Frost's Poems - A New Enlarged Anthology with Commentary by Louis Untermeyer - Paperback USED
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    Robert Frost's Poems - A New Enlarged Anthology with Commentary by Louis Untermeyer - Paperback USED

    Here in one volume are selected poems of Robert Frost, accompanied by an introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer. They make up an anthology that will bring you numberless hours of pleasure and joy.

    Illustrated throughout with black and white woodcuts.


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  • Rhyme Schemer : YA Poetry by K.A. Holt - Paperback
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    Rhyme Schemer : YA Poetry by K.A. Holt - Paperback

    Kevin has a bad attitude. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way. And he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems. But what happens when the tables are turned and he is the one getting picked on? Using elements of subversive found poetry, Rhyme Schemer is an accessible novel in verse that is both touching and hilarious, and will inspire voracious and reluctant readers alike. It is a celebration of the power of words and their ability to transform lives.

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  • Love Songs by Sara Teasdale - Softcover REPRODUCTION Poetry

    Love Songs by Sara Teasdale - Softcover REPRODUCTION Poetry

    I have remembered beauty in the night,
    ⁠Against black silences I waked to see
    ⁠A shower of sunlight over Italy
    And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
    I have remembered music in the dark,
    ⁠The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
    ⁠And running water singing on the rocks
    When once in English woods I heard a lark.


    But all remembered beauty is no more
    ⁠Than a vague prelude to the thought of you—
    ⁠You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
    ⁠Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
    My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,
    ⁠And when I think of you, I am at rest.

    PREFATORY NOTE

    Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from "Rivers to the Sea" (The Macmillan Company), "Helen of Troy and Other Poems" (G. P. Putnam's Sons), and one or two from an earlier volume. Thanks are due to the editors of Harper's, Century, Scribner's, Poetry and other periodicals for their permission to include poems hitherto unpublished in book form.

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

    About the Publisher

    International News Books & Gifts publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

    This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. International News Books & Gifts uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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  • The Raven and Other Favorite Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback Dover Thrift Edition
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    The Raven and Other Favorite Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback Dover Thrift Edition

    One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. "The Raven" remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature.

    This volume contains "The Raven" and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems, among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado," and "Annabel Lee." Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality — his idealism; his visionary qualities; his responsiveness to beauty, to love, and to women; and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid. They reveal, too, his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms, and figures of speech — command that would make his one of the most distinctive voices in all of poetry.

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  • Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon : National Poetry Series Winner : Paperback

    Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon : National Poetry Series Winner : Paperback

    Noah Eli Gordon's poems take the form of jotted notes in an artist's notebook (I was reminded in particular of Odilon Redon's). Each day one begins anew to weave the web, having moved a step forward (or sometimes backward) since yesterday's attempt. Thus each prose bloc, modified or modulated by the ghostly fragments that interleave them, sharpens the focus by which he "attempt[s] via the unknown to give grammar a purpose." The effort in itself is its own reward, and a prodigal one.
    --John Ashbery

    An exciting new collection of prose poetry from an emerging talent, Noah Eli Gordon's Novel Pictorial Noise was a winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition, selected by esteemed poet John Ashbery. For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.

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  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward FitzGerald, Trans. - Tony Briggs, ed. - Deluxe Scholarly Edition, Paperback
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    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward FitzGerald, Trans. - Tony Briggs, ed. - Deluxe Scholarly Edition, Paperback

    The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date with a sumptuous new look.

    "An attractive new edition with a lengthy essay by Tony Briggs, who characterises the poem, memorably, as 'the story of the apocalypse told to us by a kind uncle.'"  Daily Mail

    Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859 translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar's charming narrative poem, BIRD PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.

    "A lovely new edition . . . Professor Briggs does us all a favour by putting before our red and weary eyes FitzGerald and this legacy from an older Iran."  —Times

    Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
    Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight:
    And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
    The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

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  • Moving Day by Ish Klein - Paperback Poetry
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    Moving Day by Ish Klein - Paperback Poetry

    MOVING DAY is the second collection by acclaimed poet Ish Klein. In this book, the poet deepens her commitment to socially-engaged lyricism, as she directly confronts the darkest sources of conflict and shared suffering while also investigating and celebrating the relationships that help us deal with personal, societal, and environmental ills. Like Whitman and O'Hara before her, Klein is a poet of camaraderie and boundless love. "Kids need each other. / Better they never get / separated entirely."

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  • Installations by Joe Bonomo - Penguin National Poetry Series
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    Installations by Joe Bonomo - Penguin National Poetry Series

    Selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series by Naomi Shihab Nye

    The prose poems in Installations invite the reader to encounter, in one extraordinary afternoon, a series of twenty art installations where something fantastic, perhaps improbable, occurs at the intersection of installed and imagined, spectator and event. Installations unites personal experience, suspense, and narrative—in those moments when we are forever altered by the mysterious and the enchanted.

    About the Author

    Joe Bonomo was born and raised in suburban Washington, D.C. He is also the author of Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band. His personal essays and prose poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and magazines. He is a recipient of fellowship awards in both prose and poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, and teaches at Northern Illinois University.

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  • The Deleted World - Poems by Tomas Tranströmer Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature - Paperback

    The Deleted World - Poems by Tomas Tranströmer Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature - Paperback

    A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

    Tomas Tranströmer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open―exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.

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  • The Morning Song of Lord Zero - Poems by Conrad Aiken - Hardcover RARE 1963 Edition

    The Morning Song of Lord Zero - Poems by Conrad Aiken - Hardcover RARE 1963 Edition

    Twenty-three new poems, from the first of which the volume draws its title, make up the first two sections of this new collection. The poems range from Conrad Aiken's latest work to an example of his earliest - 'The Tinsel Circuit,' a cycle of poems about vaudeville performers and performances, written but not published in 1916 and re-created by the author in 1961. 

    In the poems of the last several years, the lyric alternates with the dramatic dialogue, combining to form a new kind of poetic statement, certain aspects of which culminate in the title poem, where the reader will find a mature, rich, and complex analysis of the function and experience of the poet. 

    Georgia-born poet and novelist Conrad Potter Aiken (1889-1973) wrote poetry, short stories, novels and an autobiography. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1930, and served as Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952.

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  • Diner : A Journal of Poetry Spring/Summer 2005 - Periodicals Back Issue
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  • Shakespeare Blackout Games (Totally Blacked Out) Paperback Poetic Challenge
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    Shakespeare Blackout Games (Totally Blacked Out) Paperback Poetic Challenge

    Think outside the puzzle with this book! Combining the simplicity of word search with the creativity of magnetic poetry, this clever book dares you to black out words and phrases and transform classic pieces of literature into outrageous, poetic, or truly bizarre messages. How did you feel when you lost your favorite childhood pet? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet XVIII" Finally, here's your chance to pen your own world-renowned works. So go ahead, grab a quill (or just pretend) and start scribbling outside the lines!

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  • An Alternative to Speech by David Lehman - Paperback

    An Alternative to Speech by David Lehman - Paperback

    Lehman's ironic poems first catch the reader with their jangly nervous energy and their delight in word play and paradox. They often explore the relation between language and truth (as in "Abeit Macht Frei," when the phrase, "Work shall set you free," takes on sinister connotations when posted above the gate of Auschwitz), or the limits of intellect, stripping away the protective coating of reason to reveal the terror beneath. Highly experimental approaches are combined with traditional elements; Lehman is not afraid to use rhyme and will frequently play on the expectations of traditional forms. While sometimes merely glib wit, these poems more often survey the contemporary malaise from fresh, striking angles. Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.     --From Library Journal
    Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. 

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  • The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot - Paperback Classics

    The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot - Paperback Classics

    The Waste Land is a 434 line poem presented in five-parts, written by T. S. Eliot; considered by many to be one of the greatest poets in history. It is one of the most important writings of modernist poetry. The Waste Land loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King while including cultural shades from Western canon, Buddhism and Hindu Upanishads. The Waste Land is highly recommended for those who enjoy important poetic works and for those newly discovering the talent of T. S. Eliot.

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  • The Gifts of God : Poems by the Scribe of A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman - Paperback

    The Gifts of God : Poems by the Scribe of A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman - Paperback

    THE GIFTS OF GOD brings together a collection of poems written by Dr. Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles, which was received from a divine source. These personal poems explore and expand on the book's spiritual teachings, which have been embraced by millions worldwide. Through personal as well as Christian and universal religious themes, Schucman illuminates some of the mysteries of the Course to help readers interpret its message of universal love and peace. A collection of 114 poems written by the scribe of the best-selling inspirational book A Course in Miracles.  A Course in Miracles has been translated into 19 languages and has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

    About the Author

    HELEN SCHUCMAN, PHD, was a clinical and research psychologist credited as one of the collaborators in scribing A Course in Miracles. She died in 1981. Today, the Foundation for Inner Peace carries on the legacy of the Course by disseminating the book's teachings. Founded in 1975, it is based in Mill Valley, California.

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  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide : A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange - Paperback

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide : A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange - Paperback

    "Extraordinary and wonderful...Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message." -The New York Times

    "Celebrates the capacity to master pain and betrayals with wit, sister-sharing, reckless daring, and flight and forgetfulness if necessary. She celebrates most of all women's loyalties to women." -Toni Cade Bambara, Ms. Magazine

    "These poems and prose selections are...rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." -New York Post

    From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

    "Ntozake Shange's extraordinary "choreopoem"...is a dramatic elegy for black women with an undercurrent message for everyone. Its theme is not sorrow...but courage. Its strength is its passion and its reality....An unforgettable collage of one woman's view of the women of her race, facing everything from rape to unrequited love....Wisdom and naivete go hand in hand. Wounds and dream intermingle; strong passions melt into simple courage." -L.I. Press/Newhouse Newspapers

    About the Author

    Ntozake Shange, poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She has also written numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, Betsy Brown, and Liliane.

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  • the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace - Paperback

    the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace - Paperback

    Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending.

     "It blends fairy tale lore with real-life musings for a beautiful result." --Lindsay E. Mack, Romper

    "As a whole, the collection acts as a tribute to all women who have ever needed a boost of empowerment and inspiration." --Madison Breaux, V Magazine

    "...Amanda Lovelace dives into the topics of modern feminism and empowerment...Read if you've ever thought about love, loss, who you are, and what you want. (So...all of us.)" --Abigail Yonker, The Everygirl

    From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration.

    "Similar in style—written in straightforward and uncomplicated verse, and content—grappling with themes of female power, love and loss, failure and redemption, pain and healing, poet Amanda Lovelace's The Princess Saves Herself in this One is similar to Kaur's Milk and Honey in another way as well: both books were self-published before going completely viral among readers." --E. CE Miller, Bustle

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    growing up a word-devourer & avid fairy tale lover, it was only natural that amanda lovelace began writing books of her own, & so she did. when she isn't reading or writing, she can be found waiting for pumpkin spice coffee to come back into season & binge-watching gilmore girls. (before you ask: team jess all the way). the lifelong poetess & storyteller currently lives in new jersey with her fiancé, their moody cat, & a combined book collection so large it will soon need its own home. she has her B.A. in english literature with a minor in sociology. the princess saves herself in this one is her debut poetry collection & the first book in the women are some kind of magic series. the second book in the series, the witch doesn't burn in this one, will be published in 2018.

    her official website is amandalovelace.com

    you can also find her as ladybookmad on twitter, instagram, & tumblr. (she hasn't quite figured out snapchat yet.)

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  • Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver - Hardcover
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    Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver - Hardcover

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

    “It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” — Chicago Tribune

    Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

    “In Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin), one of our most beloved writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts. Spanning more than 50 years and featuring more than 200 poems, the collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning away from grief and finding in nature a "vast, incredible gift." Over time, as she carefully observes and records, Oliver extols the beauty and complexity around her and reminds us of the interconnectedness of living. She also asks important questions, such as "have you ever dared to be happy/ ... have you ever dared to pray," and "Tell me, what it is you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?" Those lines resonate as much today as when she first penned them decades ago. No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” —The Washington Post

    Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

    About the Author

    Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Oliver currently lives in Florida.

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  • Oscar Wilde : Selected Poems - Hardcover Gift Edition

    Oscar Wilde : Selected Poems - Hardcover Gift Edition

    And all men kill the thing they love
    By all let it be heard,
    Some do it with a bitter look.
    Some with a flattering word.
    The coward does it with a kiss.
    The brave man with a sword!
    --from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


    Although best known for his sparkling and witty plays, Oscar Wilde also distinguished himself as a prolific poet. From "Ravenna," a prize-winning poem he wrote in college, to "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," penned during his time in prison for homosexual acts, Wilde created a fascinating body of verse. More than 35 of his works appear in this excellent collection, and they reveal the scope and brilliance of his writing. Many were inspired by his time in Italy, including "Sonnet: On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel." Other brief pieces, called Impressions, capture the feeling of a moment: "Le Jardin" evokes a garden as winter descends. Still more honor his fellow poets, including "On the Sale of Keats' Love Letters." An enlightening anthology that Wilde lovers will treasure.

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  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : Exquisite Gift Edition

    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : Exquisite Gift Edition

    This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature Fitzgerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.

    About the Author

    Omar Khayyam, (1048—1122), was a Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet. His poetic work has eclipsed his fame as a mathematician and scientist.

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  • Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Frank O'Hara - Paperback

    Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Frank O'Hara - Paperback

    Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.

    Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.

    "O’Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age." --Dwight Garner, New York Times

    "As collections go, none brings. . .quality to the fore more than the thirty-seven Lunch Poems, published in 1964 by City Lights." --Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review

    "What O'Hara is getting at is a sense of the evanescence, and the power, of great art, that inextricable contradiction — that what makes it moving and transcendent is precisely our knowledge that it will pass away. This is the ethos at the center of “Lunch Poems”: not the informal or the conversational for their own sake but rather in the service of something more intentional, more connective, more engaged." --David L. Ulin, Los Angeles TImes

    "The collection broadcasts snark, exuberance, lonely earnestness, and minute-by-minute autobiography to a wide, vague audience—much like today's Twitter and Facebook feeds." --Micah Mattix, The Atlantic

    Among the most significant post-war American poets, Frank O'Hara grew up in Grafton, MA, graduating from Harvard in 1950. After earning an MA at Michigan in 1951, O'Hara moved to New York, where he began working for the Museum of Modern Art and writing for Art News. By 1960, he was named Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions at MOMA. Along with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Barbara Guest, he is considered an original member of the New York School. Though he died in a tragic accident in 1966, recent references to O'Hara on TV shows like Mad Men or Thurston Moore’s new single evidence our culture’s continuing fascination with this innovative poet.

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  • A Lover in the Land of Hell : A Collection of Spiritually Enlightening Poetry by Jennie Haiman - Paperback

    A Lover in the Land of Hell : A Collection of Spiritually Enlightening Poetry by Jennie Haiman - Paperback

    A unique self-help book in poetic form! 

    A Lover in the Land of Hell: A Collection of Spiritually Enlightening Poetry for Personal and Planetary Transformation and Growth is an entertaining, yet deep thought provoking, new age instruction manual for positive self transformation and thus world transformation. From birth to death the reader is taken on a journey exemplifying the bitter realities of our present day planet earth and steps we can all take to help create positive change. 

    The poems are simple, easy to read and rhythmic in style. Influenced by jazz and hip hop music, the poems may be classified as spoken word poetry as they take on a whole new energy when read out loud. The poetry topics aim to raise awareness about social issues and injustices of the day. 

    Topics include self image issues, politics, homelessness, planet earth, women's empowerment, compassion for animals, health, diet, money, meditation, law of attraction, gratitude, love, death, God, the devil, consciousness and spirituality. 

    Overall, A Lover in the Land of Hell is an inspiring, motivational, eye opening and empowering book which will help guide the reader towards making positive changes in their own life and amplify healing on all levels, thus contributing to a more peaceful, compassionate and abundant world! In order to truly create significant changes on this planet we must first change ourselves!

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  • Maggot : Poems by Paul Muldoon - Hardcover FIRST EDITION

    Maggot : Poems by Paul Muldoon - Hardcover FIRST EDITION

    Of Plan B, an interim volume that included several of the poems in Maggot, Robert McCrum recently said in the London Observer that "Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection." In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are "sex and the dead," Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It's no accident that the centerpiece of Maggot is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its subject the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal automobile accidents. The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title sequence but also many of the round songs that characterize Maggot, and has led Angela Leighton, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, to see these new poems as giving readers "a thrilling, wild, fairground ride, with few let-ups for the squeamish."

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  • Literally Disturbed : Tales to Keep You Up at Night by Ben H. Winters - Hardcover

    Literally Disturbed : Tales to Keep You Up at Night by Ben H. Winters - Hardcover

    Come on up to the attic
    Come up if you dare
    Climb up the rickety ladder—
    Come up and see what’s there…

    Ben H. Winters brings the fear factor to this collection of thirty spooktastic rhyming stories about witches, zombies, vampires and more! Featuring eerie illustrations by Adam F. Watkins, this book is perfect for nights around the campfire and slumber party ghost stories. Be sure to keep a flashlight close!

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  • Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur - Paperback

    Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur - Paperback

    #1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

    “Rupi Kaur has vision beyond her years … Her work is simply but powerfully expressed, and viscerally captures both universal human experience and the particular struggles of a young woman today."--Huffington Post

    The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

    About the Author

    rupi kaur is a #1 new york times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry. she started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said—draw your heart out. rupi views her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. after completing her degree in rhetoric studies she published her first collection of poems milk and honey in 2014. the internationally acclaimed collection sold well over a million copies gracing the new york times bestseller list every week for over a year. it has since been translated into over thirty languages. her long-awaited second collection the sun and her flowers was published in 2017. through this collection she continues to explore a variety of themes ranging from love. loss. trauma. healing. femininity. migration. revolution. rupi has performed her poetry across the world. her photography and art direction are warmly embraced and she hopes to continue this expression for years to come.

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  • The Language of Life : A Festival of Poets by Bill Moyers - Hardcover
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    The Language of Life : A Festival of Poets by Bill Moyers - Hardcover

    "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."

    In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda McCarriston's award-winning poems about a child trapped in a violent home, or to Jimmy Santiago Baca explaining how words changed his life in prison, or to David Mura describing his Japanese American grandfather's experience in relocation camps, or to Sekou Sundiata stitching the magic of his childhood church in Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet's voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric.

    "'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall hear,'" explains Bill Moyers. The Language Of Life is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.

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  • The Illuminated Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Michael Green (Illustrator), and Coleman Barks  (Translator) - Hardcover

    The Illuminated Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Michael Green (Illustrator), and Coleman Barks (Translator) - Hardcover

    Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...

    In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish.  Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi's life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet.  The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world's best-loved ecstatic poetry.

    Rumi's passionate, playful poems find and celebrate sacred life in everyday existence.  They speak across all traditions, to all peoples, and today his relevance and popularity continue to grow.  In The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks, widely regarded as the world's premier translator of Rumi's writings, presents some of his most brilliant work, including many new translations.  To complement Rumi's universal vision, Michael Green has worked the ancient art of illumination into a new, visually stunning form that joins typography, original art, old masters, photographs, and prints with sacred images from around the world.

    "Rumi has, to the recent amazement of many people in the Western culture as well as the Islamic culture, been able to speak directly to contemporary readers.  One of the greatest pieces of good luck that has happened recently in American poetry is Coleman Barks's agreement to translate poem after poem of Rumi.  Rumi, like Kabir, is able to contain and continue intricate theological arguments and at the same time speak directly from the heart or to the heart.  Coleman's exquisite sensitivity to the flavor and turns of ordinary American speech has produced marvelous lines, full of flavor and Sufi humor, as well as the intimacy that is carried inside American speech at its best."
    --Robert Bly

    The Illuminated Rumi is a truly groundbreaking collaboration that interweaves word and image: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings.  Coleman Barks's wise and witty commentary, together with Michael Green's art, makes this a classic guide to the life of the soul for a whole new generation of seekers.

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  • The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback USED Classics

    The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback USED Classics

    Written more than a century ago, The Raven remains a classic of American literature. This collection of Poe's hauntingly memorable verse includes Annabel Lee, The Bells, Eldorado, and other favorite poems that reflect the macabre imagination and strange genius of the man whose work continues to reach into our souls and seek out our deepest fears.

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