Poetry
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I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems
$22.00 Add to cartAcclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath’s poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.
One of our leading interpreters- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538136
- Language: English
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Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture
$29.95 Read moreLiterature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers a… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Queen, Khadijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0472039792
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Poetry as Insurgent Art
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217191
- Language: English
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
$26.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illum
- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066383
- Language: English
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Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift
$16.99 Add to cartGrab your highlighters and favorite red pen and prepare to join professor of “Swifterature” Dr. Elly McCausland as she dives deep into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift. Going line by line and word … [more below]
- Author: McCausland, Elly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600815
- Language: English
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
$21.95 Add to cart“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881958
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Add to cartA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
$30.00 Read moreFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over the centuries to assemble the most imper… [more below]
- Author: Leithauser, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655050
- Language: English
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
$15.00 Read moreIn The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness gu
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975623
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$25.27 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
$15.00 Read moreThe award-winning poet Carl Phillips’s invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing
In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditate- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976816
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
$19.00 Add to cartAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combin… [more below]
- Author: Noel-Tod, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0141984562
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire’s life and work
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best k- Series: Verso Classics
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290459
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$8.99 Read moreDeemed as Homer’s timeless masterpiece, The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem that tells the story of the Trojan War and the heroism of warriors on both sides. With a stunning cover design and insi
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2016
- ISBN10: 8175993448
- Language: English
