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  • The Book of Nightmares

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    Galway Kinnell’s poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.

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    • Author: Kinnell, Galway
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: November 22 2010
    • ISBN10: 395120985
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street–these have been the qualities of Robert Pin

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    • Author: Pinsky, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0374533164
    • Language: English
  • The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems

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    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
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    The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With

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    • Author: Hass, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 05 2011
    • ISBN10: 0061923907
    • Language: English
  • When the Only Light Is Fire

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    In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their… [more below]

    • Author: Jones, Saeed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 44
    • Publish Date: November 15 2011
    • ISBN10: 1937420035
    • Language: English
  • Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions: A Library of America Paperback Classic

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    In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author’s aims. A commercial failure, this book was th… [more below]

    • Series: Library of America
    • Author: Whitman, Walt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 757
    • Publish Date: January 20 2011
    • ISBN10: 1598530976
    • Language: English
  • Garden Time

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    Composed as he lost his eyesight, W.S. Merwin’s final and exquisite book brims with longing, loss, and unanswerable questions. In Garden Time, Merwin’s luminous, ethereal voice gently interrogates mor… [more below]

    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1556595948
    • Language: English
  • Rise above the River (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)

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    In Kelly Rowe’s Rise above the River, we find a sister powerless to redress her brother’s fall from grace after the trauma of his childhood sexual abuse by a female authority figure. Rise above the R

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    • Author: Rowe, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 74
    • Publish Date: October 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1773491105
    • Language: English
  • I, Divided: Poems

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    An underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman’s I, Divided: What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that dete

    • Author: Dingman, Chelsea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: November 01, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807180173
    • Language: English
  • Childcare

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    Crackling with the hypervigilance of parenthood, Childcare explores the paradox at the root of raising kids: the joy of new life accompanies an awareness of potential loss. Rob Schlegel’s fourth coll

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    • Author: Schlegel, Rob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245564
    • Language: English
  • Lanternfly August

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    In Lanternfly August, Robin Gow contends with the emotional geographies of home through the lens of an often-demonized species of insect.

    • Author: Gow, Robin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949065286
    • Language: English
  • Ashes in Paradise

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    You’ve lost everything, my enemy said. No, I answered, I still have you, Jeff Friedman writes in his inspired new collection of prose poems and micros, Ashes in Paradise. His fabulist inventions, bibl

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    • Author: Friedman, Jeff
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 102
    • Publish Date: November 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1952335698
    • Language: English
  • Poems

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    I take on a journey of different feelings about what happens to an average person in their life. My thoughts are written in poems I wrote. Being able to write my feelings in print and put them into a

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    • Author: Engelke, Daniel, Jr.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 34
    • Publish Date: December 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798889823278
    • Language: English
  • Tales from the Limestone

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    In your hands you hold my heart my soul spilled onto pages with memories of loss of pain of healing from the mountainside of West Virginia.

    “Steeped in music, color, and images of the natural world, Os

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    • Author: Oster, Josh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 50
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1088109640
    • Language: English
  • The Art Of Drowning

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    This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music.

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Collins, Billy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 15 1995
    • ISBN10: 0822955679
    • Language: English
  • The Back Country

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    This collection is made up of four sections: “Far West”–poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; “Far East”–poems written betwee… [more below]

    • Author: Snyder, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: January 17 1971
    • ISBN10: 0811201945
    • Language: English
  • Eyes, Stones

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    In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    The poems inv

  • The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

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    Kay Ryan’s recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet-… [more below]

    • Author: Ryan, Kay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 02 2011
    • ISBN10: 0802145213
    • Language: English
  • Spoon River Anthology: 100th Anniversary Edition

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    In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandal… [more below]

    • Series: Signet Classics
    • Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 03 2007
    • ISBN10: 0451530586
    • Language: English
  • Notwithstanding

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    If Brit Washburn were a painter she would be like Vermeer, following a certain slant of illumination into a dimly lit interior, drawing our attention to the pear on the table, or the child’s tiny curl

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    • Author: Washburn, Brit
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 110
    • Publish Date: October 21 2019
    • ISBN10: 1732436959
    • Language: English
  • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997

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    Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life–beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees po[more below]

    • Author: Berry, Wendell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 19 1999
    • ISBN10: 1582430063
    • Language: English
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