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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
Scribner
Scribner
William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Sailing Alone Around the Room , by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris , Questions About Angels , The Art of Drowning , and ...
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One Secret Thing
Sharon Olds
Knopf
Knopf
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a...
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The Niagara River: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)
Kay Ryan
Grove Press
Grove Press
Bafflingly effective, this new collection of poetry from the winner of the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize seems too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Intense and relaxed, buoyant and rueful, the singular music of Kay Ryan's poetry appeals to a...
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
Mary Karr
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose ...
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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Various
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz-brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from...
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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)
Snorri Sturluson
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales...
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Stephen Mitchell
Free Press
Free Press
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter...
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Odyssey
Homer
Hackett Publishing Company
Hackett Publishing Company
Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. From the translation: "And when the wine had begun to work on his mind, I spoke these sweet words to him: 'Cyclops You ask me...
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Random House
Random House
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children was recognized upon its publication in 1983 as an invaluable collection--a modern classic--and it has not since been surpassed. Five hundred poems, selected by poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky,...
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