Poets
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Robert Frost: A Life
$34.99 Add to cartThis fascinating reassessment of America’s most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends… [more below]
- Author: Parini, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063412
- Language: English
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John Keats: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats’s poetry and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554889
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$17.95 Add to cartIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066075
- Language: English
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Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography
$25.95 Add to cartRimbaud–a mythic name–his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call “… [more below]
- Author: Starkie, Enid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 081120197X
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
$24.00 Add to cartIn Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but br… [more below]
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140231587
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
$29.99 Add to cartLeonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a strange and eventful life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than fifty inter… [more below]
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Burger, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1613731787
- Language: English
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Finding Them Gone: Visiting China’s Poets of the Past
$27.00 Add to cart“A travel writer with a cult following.”–The New York Times
“There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. Finding Them Gone uniquely
- Author: Pine, Red
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1556594895
- Language: English
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Bard, Kinetic
$19.95 Add to cartThe expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words.
In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a multifaceted portrait of her life and praxis as a- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 156689669X
- Language: English
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he’d received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing t… [more below]
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393329402
- Language: English
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A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
$19.99 Add to cartA poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion–from Nigeria to England to America
Mary-Alice Daniel’s family moved from West Africa to England when she
- Author: Daniel, Mary-Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 62960059
- Language: English
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
$32.50 Read moreA dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologiz… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Lucasta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655832
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$17.95 Read moreA reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades.
In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-tr- Series: Godine Storyteller
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 43
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0879233397
- Language: English
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
$10.99 Add to cartKidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatley–as she comes to be known–has an eager mind and it
- Series: Great Episodes
- Author: Rinaldi, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 015205393X
- Language: English
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The Heart of American Poetry
$26.00 Read moreAn acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition
We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people?- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537261
- Language: English
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A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith
$19.95 Add to cartEditors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America’s leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. B… [more below]
- Author: Kaminsky, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 193219519X
- Language: English
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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close t… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 159030389X
- Language: English
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
$21.00 Add to cartIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015501
- Language: English
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
$34.99 Add to cart2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre- Author: Spring, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533024
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
