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Out of Danger

Poems

James Fenton Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Out of Danger (1994) was Fenton's first collection of poems in ten years, and the poems in it renew and amplify the qualities of unflinching observation and...

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Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The Strength of Poetry Oxford Lectures James Fenton Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From a leading critic, here is a broad-ranging collection of "bracing and sympathetic readings" (The New York Times Book Review) on modern poetry and poetics.

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Love Bomb And Other Musical Pieces James Fenton Faber and Faber, Inc. Three Libretti—Ranging In Setting From Ancient Jerusalem To Pre-Apocalyptic London—From An Acclaimed Poet This volume of libretti marks new...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	An Introduction to English Poetry James Fenton Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "I have never come across a book quite like this one: so unfraught, so uncontentious, so lucid and gentlemanly. I cannot imagine that even the most wised-up spouter of poetry would not find it irresistible."—Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe

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Selected Poems

James Fenton Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Fenton remains an extraordinary poet with something original to disclose. The publication of his Selected Poems gives American readers an excuse to lay encomiums aside and discover Fenton for themselves."—Stephen Metcalf, The New York Times Book Review

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The Eclogues of Virgil

Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and Notes by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"As fresh-minted and sparkling as his deservedly praised Odes of Horace and his rendering of Gilgamesh . . . Ferry's translation wonderfully preserves the exquisite harmonies of the mode while giving it a vigorous edge of reality."—Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

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The Odes of Horace

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Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and Notes by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing."—Rosanna Warren, The Threepenny Review

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Gilgamesh

A New Rendering in English Verse

David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousnad descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

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The Epistles of Horace

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Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and Notes by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Writing primarily in fluid iambic pentameter and with a simplicity of vocabulary and expression that brilliantly combines fluency and clarity, Ferry reproduces the thought and tone of . . . Rome's most sophisticated poet."—Frederic Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal

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The Georgics of Virgil

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A translation by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers."—Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Blind Huber Poems Nick Flynn Graywolf Press Paper Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hive I sit in a body & think of a body, I picture Burnens'...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Some Ether Poems Nick Flynn Graywolf Press Paper Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Deposition Poems Katie Ford Graywolf Press Paper Poet Katie Ford's debut collection confronts God in a language as shifting and ecstatic as divine encounter This comes out of folklore. Invented because...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Colosseum Poems Katie Ford Graywolf Press Paper The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night” (The New York Times Book Review) ...

Bilingual Edition Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti; Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Andrew Frisardi Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This "splendidly fresh and definitive" volume (The Washington Post) offers a major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets.

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Road Not Taken A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems Robert Frost; With an Introduction and Commentary by Louis Untermeyer; Illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II Holt Paperbacks 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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You Come Too

Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages

Robert Frost; With a Foreword by Noel Perrin 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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Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	The Poetry of Robert Frost The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged Robert Frost; Edited by Edward Connery Lathem Holt 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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Robert Frost's Poems

Robert Frost; With an Introduction and Commentary by Louis Untermeyer St. Martin's Paperbacks

Here is an afforable, compact, longtime bestseller featuring over 100 of Frost's best-known poems.

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Robert Frost Reader Poetry and Prose Robert Frost; Edited by Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrance Thompson Holt Paperbacks Robert Frost was the most emblematically American of poets, a forthright advocate of both the art and craft of verse who was recognized and cherished as few...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Feeling as a Foreign Language The Good Strangeness of Poetry Alice Fulton Graywolf Press Paper In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Moon Crossing Bridge Tess Gallagher Graywolf Press Paper Tess Gallagher's stunning new poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver.

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Dear Ghosts, Poems Tess Gallagher Graywolf Press Paper "It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Collected Poems Revised Bilingual Edition Federico García Lorca; Edited and with an introduction and notes by Christopher Maurer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "Meticulously and yet unobtrusively edited . . . After 900-plus pages of unremitting brilliance, Lorca emerges as positively visionary."—Rafael Campo, The Washington Post