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Dhaka Dust

Poems

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• Dilruba Ahmed: An Outsider Turns To Poetry

The Divine Comedy

Critic and poet Clive James' new translation of Dante's epic Divine Comedy leaves behind Dante's original terza rima rhyme scheme for quatrains, which James says avoids the strains of "rhyme-poor" English and creates a "nice, easily flowing rhythmic grid on which to mount the individual moments."

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• Just In Time For Poetry Month, Four Fantastic Books Of Verse
• Dante's Beauty Rendered In English In A Divine 'Comedy'

Collected Poems

Edited by Frederick Glaysher, this volume collects the work of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. Robert Hayden's poems which contemplate the black experience and deal with such themes as dreams, mortality, nature, travel, and memory.

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• Just In Time For Poetry Month, Four Fantastic Books Of Verse

The Cineaste

Poems

The author of Quantum Lyrics, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A and Rise has now written a collection of poems inspired by the world of film.

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• Just In Time For Poetry Month, Four Fantastic Books Of Verse

The Best of the Best American Poetry

An anthology of 100 top-selected poems culled from the prestigious poetry publication's first quarter century offers insight into the art form's flourishing status and is complicated by introductory essays and current poet biographies. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate, serves as guest editor for this volume.

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• Just In Time For Poetry Month, Four Fantastic Books Of Verse

The War Works Hard

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• Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet
• Dunya Mikhail: 'The War Works Hard'
• Excerpt: 'The War Works Hard'

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

This bilingual, lyrical memoir, in the form of a long poem, weaves together the past and present of an Iraqi-American poet. Translated by Elizabeth Winslow.

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• Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet

Red Doc

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• Monsters, Myths And Poetic License In Anne Carson's 'Red Doc'
• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Looking for the Gulf Motel

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• Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Finally Felt Like I Was Home'

Taps on the Walls

Poems from the Hanoi Hilton

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• In A North Vietnamese Prison, Sharing Poems With 'Taps On The Walls'

The Colossus

& Other Poems

Works by the American poet reflect her thoughts on the ephemeral aspects of life

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• On The 50th Anniversary Of Sylvia Plath's Death, A Look At Her Beginning

The Love Poems Of Ahmad Shamlu

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• Daughter Of The Storm: An Iranian Literary Revolution

Metaphysical Dog

Poems

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Senegal Taxi

News and Reviews

• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Incarnadine

Poems

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Belmont

Poems

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Lit from Inside

40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books

"A compilation of archival materials accompanies this collection of 40 years of poetry from Alice James Books. Nearly 150 authors are represented in chronological order, including Beatrice Hawley, Fanny Howe, Jane Kenyon, Betsy Sholl, Celia Gilbert, JeanValentine, Donald Revell, B.H. Fairchild, Brian Turner, and many more. "--

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Duppy Conqueror

New and Selected Poems

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

The Collected Poems of Ron Padgett

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• Guns, God And A Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview

Thrall

Poems

Collects the author's poems as she reflects on her own interracial ancestry, her estrangement from her father, and their place in the history of race in America.

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• Well-Versed: Five Poets With Punch

Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys

Poems

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• Well-Versed: Five Poets With Punch
• Hell's Music: A 'Guide For Boys' With Adult Themes
• Not Your Parents' Poems: A 2012 Poetry Preview

Mayakovsky's Revolver

The author uses his art to come to terms with his older brother's suicide in a collection of poems that explore how to find strength in the face of loss and grief.

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• Well-Versed: Five Poets With Punch

Our Lady of the Ruins

This award-winning collection of poems from the author of Rookery follows a group of women navigating their way through an apocalyptic world full of war, plague and the search for a new God. Original.

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• Well-Versed: Five Poets With Punch

Bender

New & Selected Poems

Weaves three decades of the poet's work with selections of his new material, in a collection arranged alphabetically by title.

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• Well-Versed: Five Poets With Punch

Antigonick

Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor.

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• Courage And Curiosity: The Best Heroines Of 2012

Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses

Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales.

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• Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best