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King of a Hundred Horsemen
Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Marie Étienne’s poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane—the quotidian transformed by the tragic...
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The Poetry of Rilke
Bilingual Edition
North Point Press
For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic),...
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Same Life
Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
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On Poetry and Poets
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets,...
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Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
With five critically acclaimed collections—Nights in the Iron Hotel (1983), Acrimony (1986), K.S. in Lakeland: New and Selected Poems (1990), Corona, Corona...
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Field Work
Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore,...
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Fidelity
Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
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Watching the Spring Festival
Poems
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Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there’s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and...
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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Ofƒ in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new...

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The Odyssey
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The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern...
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Robert Frost's Poems
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A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
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A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more...
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
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The Love Poems of John Keats
In Praise of Beauty
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These are the words John Keats chose to epitomize his short, frustrating, and tragic life. They appear as his epitaph in Rome's Protestant cemetery. Often...
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The Inferno of Dante
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The Burial at Thebes
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
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Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights...
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Gilgamesh
A New Rendering in English Verse
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A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of...
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
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Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most...
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The Road Not Taken
A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
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The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not...
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The Sonnets
Poems of Love
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T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing...
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You Come Too
Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages
Owlet Paperbacks
A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more...
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Collected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime....
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
A Celebration 0f Love
St. Martin's Press
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as...