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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Little Door Slides Back Poems Jeff Clark Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks But then, from way off, with cranking comes my night, and when it arrives I go to it like a callboy to a c-note. --"My Interior" "Jeff Clark's poems . ....

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Middle Earth

Poems

Henri Cole Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the 2004 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

"These are the poems of a conjurer, ceremonial and hypnotic . . . This collection marks the birth of Cole, a writer in his late 40s, as a poet for a wider audience. He displays his sense of humor and takes an unguilty pleasure in his visions."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Poetry
Lambda Literary Awards - Winner - Gay Men's Poetry
Massachussetts Book Award - Winner - Poetry

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Visible Man Poems Henri Cole Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "The Visible Man, Henri Cole's fourth book, is a breakthrough book in Cole's ongoing body of work . . . [It] is a triumph not only for the art but for the scathingly told tale of honest and unflinching realism itself. . . The Visible Man is very much an uprising."—Liam Rector, The Harvard Review

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Blackbird and Wolf

Poems

Henri Cole Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

I don’t want words to sever me from reality. I don’t want to need them. I want nothing to reveal feeling but feeling—as in freedom, or the knowledge of...

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Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Touch Poems Henri Cole Farrar, Straus and Giroux Henri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Blue Front Poems Martha Collins Graywolf Press Paper A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree,...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The King's Question Poems Brian Culhane Graywolf Press Paper Brian Culhane’s deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award Let just one of those quicksilver...

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Laws for Creations

Walt Whitman; Selected and Introduced by Michael Cunningham Picador

In Walt Whitman, Michael Cunningham sees a poet whose vision of humanity is ecstatic, democratic, and sensuous. Just over a hundred years ago, Whitman...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Seven-Star Bird Poems David Daniel Graywolf Press Paper David Daniel explores a city-entire lives-swept clean off the map in this haunting debut As breezes lap the shallow-tugged tide flow And swallows twitter...

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The Inferno of Dante

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Dante; A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Splendid . . . Pinsky's verse translation is fast-paced, idiomatic, and accurate. It moves with the concentrated gait of a lyric poem . . . It maintains the original's episodic and narrative velocity while mirroring its formal shape and character . . . Pinsky succeeds in creating a supple American equivalent for Dante's vernacular music where many others have failed."—Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker

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If I Were Another

Poems

Mahmoud Darwish; Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

“[Darwish] writes poetry of the highest and most intense quality—poetry that embodies epic and lyric both, deeply symbolic, intensely emotional . . . He has, in Joudah’s startling and tensile English,expended into us a new vastness.”—Kazim Ali, The Kenyon Review

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities Olena Kalytiak Davis Bloomsbury USA In her stunning second collection, poet Olena Kalytiak Davis confirms her reputation as a breathtaking verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and...

Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Simplify Me When I'm Dead Poems Selected by Ted Hughes Keith Douglas Faber and Faber, Inc. Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead. As the processes of earth strip off the colour and the skin take the brown hair and blue eye ...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The World's Wife Poems Carol Ann Duffy Faber and Faber, Inc. Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you...

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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Streets in Their Own Ink

Poems

Stuart Dybek Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Thoughtful, carefully structured, and beautifully coherent . . . [A] complex and rewarding [book] for readers of contemporary American poetry."—Kate Washington, San Francisco Chronicle

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry

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Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Siegfried Sassoon A Life Max Egremont Farrar, Straus and Giroux Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy. While a brave young officer, he confronted the terrible realities of the First...

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On Poetry and Poets

T. S. Eliot 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, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as “The Three Voices of Poetry,” “Poetry and Drama,” and “What Is Minor Poetry?” as well as considerations of the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats.

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Maverick Room Poems Thomas Sayers Ellis Graywolf Press Paper With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Thomas Sayers Ellis’s debut becomes a powerful argument against monotony A dream. A democracy....

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	What Lips My Lips Have Kissed The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay Daniel Mark Epstein A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent...

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King of a Hundred Horsemen

Poems

Marie Étienne; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Odd as it can be, and just that brilliant. I cannot possibly imagine anyone having dared to translate this singularly-angled poem of a startling prose except Marilyn Hacker, whose triumph equals that of the author. Two bravas, please!"—Mary Ann Caws, author of Surprised in Translation and editor of The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Everything Preserved Poems 1955-2005 Landis Everson Graywolf Press Paper The remarkable discovery of Landis Everson, first winner of The Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award I stay upright. Nothing makes me go...

Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	The Atlantic Tunnel Selected Poems Paul Farley Faber and Faber, Inc. Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor. We can say Flame on! to invoke the Human Torch from the...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Edward Hopper Poems A Bilingual Edition Ernest Farrés, Transleted from the Catalan by Lawrence Venuti Graywolf Press Paper An arresting sequence of poems based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper, in an award-winning translation from the Catalan