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I Saw a Peacock With a Fiery Tail
Presents a folk poem from the seventeenth century, featuring die-cut pages that reveal its nuanced meaning.
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New Poems
In these mature poems, Graham vividly observes the movements of her mind and the action in the world at hand. Elsewhere, the present turns ethereal as, for instance, a dog hit by a car becomes "the loved still-young creature being carried now onto the family lawn."
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Almost Invisible
A latest collection by the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blizzard of One is comprised of whimsical, prose-style dramas that explore the receding vista of life while posing eloquent, riddle-like conundrums about the human condition.
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The Complete Poems
Contains a complete collection of the author's poetry along with commentary on the historical context and linguistic usage.
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The Eternal Ones of the Dream
Selected Poems 1990 - 2010
While spinning silly yarns about guys who befriend goats and have statues erected in their honor without them knowing, Tate creates a new form — a hybrid of prose and poetry that is neither prose poem nor story. Tate free-associates his way across the American consciousness deep into the human heart.
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Arranged chronologically, a comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form and commentary by Hughes's biographer.
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The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
A volume of poetic works explores the intersection between secular and sacred aspects of life, where everyday experiences from caring for an ailing parent to helping a child at the playground have both miraculous and mundane qualities. Reprint. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
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What the Living Do
Poems
Praised for the luminosity and life of her work, exhibited in her first collection, The Good Thief, the poet continues her reflections on the passages from childhood to adulthood, informed by the death of her beloved brother.
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Head Off & Split
Poems
Nikky Finney's poetry explores people and events in African American life: from Rosa Parks to Condoleezza Rice to a woman waiting for rescue on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.Literary Award Winner
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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Poems 2007-2010
Includes a collection of verse by a National Book Award-winning poet, including the intimate address of "Axel Avakar," the dark humor of "Quarto," the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation" and many more.
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Horoscopes for the Dead
Poems
A volume of fifty poetic works by the former U.S. Poet Laureate includes poignant and lighthearted pieces on intimate topics ranging from love and death to solitude and aging.
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No Enemies, No Hatred
Selected Essays and Poems
The winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize speaks with passion about peasant land disputes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slavery, the CCP's Olympic strategy, the Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, the Tiananmen massacre and more.
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Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys
Poems
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The Back Chamber
This collection of poetry by former poet laureate Donald Hall explores time, memory and mortality, as well as his familiar topics: friendship, love, sex and his family's farm.
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The Cloud Corporation
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Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
The definitive collection in English of the poetry of the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature includes the one hundred poems of her phenomenally popular View with a Grain of Sand and sixty-four newly translated selections.
