Poetry
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
$14.00 Add to cartIn this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explai… [more below]
- Author: Stevens, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 12 1965
- ISBN10: 0394702786
- Language: English
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A Walker in the City
$15.99 Add to cartKazin’s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to “americanca”-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portr… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Kazin, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0156941767
- Language: English
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
$40.00 Read moreRenowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the mo
- Author: Hollis, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393240258
- Language: English
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The Art of Reading Poetry
$12.00 Add to cart“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.” -Harold Bloom
In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devo
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060769661
- Language: English
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20th Century Pleasures
$19.99 Add to cartU.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters, Robert Creeley, James Mc
- Author: Hass
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 088001539X
- Language: English
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The Hatred of Poetry
$17.00 Add to cartNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It’s even bemoaned by poets: “I, too, dislike it,” wrote Marianne Moore. “Many more people agree they hate poetry,” Ben Lerner writes, “than can agree wha
- Author: Lerner, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0865478201
- Language: English
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
$11.95 Add to cartThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty–from a t… [more below]
- Author: Weinberger, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0811226204
- Language: English
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0374289336
- Language: English
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Making of a Sonnet
$31.99 Add to cartThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes,
- Series: Norton Anthology
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333531
- Language: English
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
$18.00 Add to cart“With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 1998
- ISBN10: 60929480
- Language: English
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The Black Poets
$9.99 Add to cart“The claim of The Black Poets to being… an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be include… [more below]
- Author: Randall, Dudley
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0553275631
- Language: English
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The Making of a Poem
$18.95 Add to cartTwo of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that “looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form” a book for readers who have always felt that an under… [more below]
- Series: Norton Anthology
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321789
- Language: English
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A Little History of Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature–selected as the literature book of the year by the London Ti… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Carey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0300255039
- Language: English
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The Poetry Book
$29.99 Add to cartAn accessible guide to the most important poems ever written– from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land–and the poets behind them
Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 744080835
- Language: English
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The Raven and Other Poems: Fully Annotated Edition with Over 400 Notes. It Contains Poe’s Complete Poems and Three Essays on Poetry
$10.00 Add to cartThe undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all o
- Series: Great Poets
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498884
- Language: English
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The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
$18.99 Add to cartA distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels.
- Author: Behn, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 23, 1992
- ISBN10: 006273024X
- Language: English
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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
$20.00 Add to cart“Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.” —The Washington Post
“Hayes [is] one of the best and most important poets now writing.” –Craig Morgan Teicher, Poetry From the National- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0143137735
- Language: English
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$24.99 Add to cartDelve into the dark and mesmerizing world of Edgar Allan Poe, where suspense and terror reign supreme. In this collection of his greatest works, experience the haunting brilliance of The Raven, as a
- Series: Greatest Works
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 938777970X
- Language: English
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Proofs and Theories
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Proofs and Theories, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl?k, one of this country’s
- Author: Gluck, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0880014423
- Language: English
