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Do Angels Need Haircuts?
$30.00 Add to cartIn August of 1970, a 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative i… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1944860215
- Language: English
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What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems
$25.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review
- Author: Stone, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1556593279
- Language: English
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Sibilance: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts
- Author: Van Doren, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180181
- Language: English
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History (and Pre-)
$24.95 Add to cartThese poems are set in, or arise from, the past but, with Goldbarth’s characteristic precision, insight, and narrative intelligence, springboard into a conjunction of thought and heart that reminds re
- Author: Goldbarth, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0899241964
- Language: English
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Racing Hummingbirds
$18.00 Add to cartRacing Hummingbirds examines, critiques, and at times delights in one woman’s navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process.
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- Author: Verlee, Jeanann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0984251553
- Language: English
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What It Doesn’t Have to Do with: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartLindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Bernal, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353949
- Language: English
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Turtle Island
$24.95 Add to cartDescribing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is the old / new name for the continent, based on many crea
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205452
- Language: English
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The Blizzard Voices
$14.95 Add to cart2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on
2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259638
- Language: English
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Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartCombining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Mart n Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection … [more below]
- Author: Espada, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0393316866
- Language: English
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And after All: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartRhina P. Espaillat’s And after All meditates on the passage of time. The perspective sweeps from the panorama of foreign landmarks to the close view of a lover’s feet in failing health, held and cared
- Author: Espaillat, Rhina P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1773490222
- Language: English
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A Girl Like Me
$19.99 Read more“[A] rallying cry for girls to reject limitations others might place on them and their dreams.”–starred, The Horn Book Magazine
“Once I dreamed I swam / the ocean / and saw everything deep, co
- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1541557778
- Language: English
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Sentenced
$18.95 Add to cartSentenced: It’s not that we didn’t know what the sentence would be, it’s that we didn’t know what would happen on the other side of the sentence. We didn’t understand that it would be a long story, pa
- Author: Schumejda, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450987
- Language: English
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Unalone
$17.95 Add to cart“Make a fence, said the rabbis, around the Torah,” reads the first line of Jessica Jacobs’ unalone. By the end of this opening poem, however, Jacobs has defined her engagement with religious texts as … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1954245823
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$16.00 Add to cartAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality–featuring a new int… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761233
- Language: English
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Complete Poems
$21.00 Add to cartBest remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era’s most beloved poets. Parker’s satirical wit and sha… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106082
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartLongfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works–Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha–as well as his shorter l
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140390642
- Language: English
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Complete Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.” -The New York Times Book Review
A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings together- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Moore, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140188517
- Language: English
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Poems for the People
$10.00 Add to cart“Nicole Tallman’s Poems for the People is a gorgeous and tender love song for all of us — the grievers, the poets, the stricken and the soft. Tallman’s poems highlight the beauty and heartbreak we li… [more below]
- Author: Tallman, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: February 23 2023
- ISBN10: 173623062X
- Language: English
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspond
$22.99 Add to cart“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius…probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.” –Bob Dylan
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0061137456
- Language: English
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Dance Me to the End of Love
$19.95 Add to cart10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual… [more below]
- Series: Art & Poetry
- Author: Cohen, Leonard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 1932183930
- Language: English
