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Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	Aloud Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman Holt Paperbacks "A fun, wild, and fascinating volume of poems . . . Aloud is significant in its openness, its verbal power, and the undeniable fact that its performers are changing things without giving a damn how many walls they tear down."—Ray Gonzalez, The Nation

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Radiant Lyre Essays on Lyric Poetry Edited by David Baker and Ann Townsend Graywolf Press Paper An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry We are delighted when we...

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	American Negro Poetry An Anthology Edited with an Introduction by Arna Bontemps Hill and Wang This classic anthology, a favorite of students, scholars, and general readers for decades, spans three generations to offer some 200 poems composed by African Americans. "[A] vital, revealing collection."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Teen Angst A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry Edited by Sara Bynoe St. Martin's Griffin Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the...

Trade Paperback : $12.99 Buy	I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine Poems For Young Feminists Carol Ann Duffy, Editor; Illustrated By Trisha Rafferty Henry Holt and Co. With readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't...

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The Rattle Bag

An Anthology of Poetry

Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes Faber and Faber, Inc.

"The method employed in arranging and presenting [the contents of this book] must surely be the one for all the best anthologies . . . The Rattle Bag sets a standard which other anthologies will find it difficult to equal."—Alan Brownjohn, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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Classical Chinese Poetry

An Anthology

Translated and Edited by David Hinton Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"David Hinton has translated the poetry of Wang Wei, Lao Tzu, Meng Chiao, and a host of other major classical Chinese poets . . . [Classical Chinese Poetry] represents 3,000 years of Chinese work, tracing its journey from an oral tradition practiced by singing bar girls and peasants to a written endeavor done only by the elite who worked for the Chinese government. The poems may be distant from American life in terms of origin and culture, but the details within them remain relevant to people reading the work today."—Vanessa E. Jones, The Boston Globe

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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Twentieth-Century German Poetry An Anthology Edited by Michael Hofmann Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person."—Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Hundred White Daffodils Essays, Interviews, The Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem Jane Kenyon Graywolf Press Paper In this enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry, the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	New European Poets Edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer Graywolf Press Paper A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of Europe New European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In...

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The End of the Poem

Oxford Lectures

Paul Muldoon Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"His lectures, delivered with an intimate command of literary history and of individual texts, are nothing if not fascinating."—Sam Munson, The New York Sun

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New British Poetry

Edited by Don Paterson and Charles Simic; With a Preface by Charles Simic and an Introduction by Don Paterson Graywolf Press Paper

"Nothing less than a single-volume solution to the plight of North American and British poets and poetry readers who find themselves divided not only by a common language, but by culture and ocean . . . [This book is] a splendid poetic bridge across the Pond."—Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate

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Holocaust Poetry

Compiled and Introduced by Hilda Schiff St. Martin's Griffin

"Can there be poetry about the Holocaust? Isn't this kind of writing an attempt to escape—or to exploit—the suffering of millions? Poet and anthologist Schiff confronts these questions in her eloquent introduction. One answer she finds is that to remain silent is also to lie. Fifty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, great literature about the Holocaust has grown to a flood . . . The pieces here are of astonishing power. In English and in translation from many languages, [nearly 60] poets—including Wiesel, Fink, Brecht, Yevtushenko, Auden, and Sachs—give voice to what seems unspeakable. Schiff points out that compelling historical accounts document the facts and numbers, but a poem, like a story, makes us imagine how it felt for one person. These poems are stark and deceptively simple. No one can read them all at once. Each poem leaves you with an indelible memory. In words of one syllable, the Polish poet Rozewicz writes about having to reinvent language after Auschwitz ('this is a man / this is a tree this is bread' ). There's no healing in this tragedy: the last poem, by Primo Levi, is like a shout of rage to us to remember."—Hazel Rochman, Booklist