American poetry - 20th century
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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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The Book of Nightmares
$19.99 Add to cartGalway 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
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The Art Of Drowning
$20.00 Add to cartThis 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
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Howl and Other Poems
$15.95 Add to cartThe prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition!
The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & O
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863107
- Language: English
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Like a Beggar
$17.00 Add to cartChampion of the body and the universe, Ellen Bass draws us into her world of details and delight.
- Author: Bass, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: March 25, 2014
- ISBN10: 155659464X
- Language: English
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Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
$36.99 Add to cartCompiled by poets who have been at the center of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, Aloud showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.
- Author: Algarin, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0805032576
- Language: English
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100 Essential Modern Poems
$37.43 Add to cartInspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny-here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterp… [more below]
- Author: Parisi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1566636124
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
$40.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry
“The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton–both the woman and her poetry–is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1934414905
- Language: English
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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
$28.99 Add to cartEdited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern cult
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0062565281
- Language: English
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets “What has restlessness been for?” In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips re- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538247
- Language: English
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Evidence: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartNever afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0807069051
- Language: English
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Every Riven Thing
$19.00 Add to cartA vibrant new collection from one of America’s most talented young poets
Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of n- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533067
- Language: English
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Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945
$21.99 Add to cartEvery Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginn… [more below]
- Author: Harper, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 08 1994
- ISBN10: 0316347108
- Language: English
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Wounded in the House of a Friend
$16.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women’s lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Ren… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #3
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0807068276
- Language: English
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The House of Belonging
$18.00 Add to cartIn this book, poet David Whyte turns his attention to the deepest longing of human beings – the desire to belong to people and places and the many ways of experiencing a sense of home. The House of Be… [more below]
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0962152439
- Language: English
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708421
- Language: English
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Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison
$15.95 Read moreA collection of poetry by Ted Kooser.
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0887483364
- Language: English
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Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone
$17.99 Add to cartA strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today’s most popular young comedians??
Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parent- Author: Burnham, Bo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1455519138
- Language: English
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This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-20013
$23.00 Add to cartWendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1619024365
- Language: English
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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
$30.00 Add to cartPenguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media
Recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award (Dove)
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Priz- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143121480
- Language: English
