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Singing School

Singing School

Learning to Write (And Read) Poetry by Studying With the Masters

by Robert Pinsky

Hardcover, 160 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $25.95, published August 5 2013 | purchase
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  • Robert Pinsky

A former poet laureate provides informative introductions and sidebar notes for more than 80 poems by greats including William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson and George Herbert, in an effort to spark pleasure in reading and writing poems.

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Stag's Leap

Stag's Leap

Poems

by Sharon Olds

Paperback, 89 pages, Random House Inc, $16.95, published September 4 2012 | purchase
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  • Sharon Olds

A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.

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Our Andromeda

Our Andromeda

by Brenda Shaughnessy

Paperback, 131 pages, Consortium Book Sales & Dist, $16, published September 18 2012 | purchase
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  • Brenda Shaughnessy

Collects the author's poems about a parallel existence in the Andromeda galaxy in which people can relive their lives, correcting mistakes and avoiding pain.

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W. S. Merwin Collected Poems 1996-2011

W. S. Merwin Collected Poems 1996-2011

by W. S. Merwin

Hardcover, 679 pages, Penguin Group USA, $37.50, published May 16 2013 | purchase
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Collects poetry from the former U.S. Poet Laureate, including "The Vixen," "The Folding Cliffs," and "The Shadow of Sirius."

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by Donald Justice

Paperback, 289 pages, Random House Inc, $16.95, published May 2 2006 | purchase
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  • Donald Justice

A tribute to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's career features the writer's theme of classic American melancholy and includes such pieces as "Bus Stop," "Men at Forty," "Crossing Kansas by Train," and "The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns." Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Dhaka Dust

Dhaka Dust

Poems

by Dilruba Ahmed

Paperback, 95 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $15, published June 21 2011 | purchase
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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri and Clive James

Hardcover, 527 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $29.95, published April 15 2013 | purchase
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  • Dante Alighieri and Clive James

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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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by Robert Hayden

Paperback, 221 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $18.95, published April 1 2013 | purchase
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  • Robert Hayden

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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The Cineaste

The Cineaste

Poems

by A. Van Jordan

Hardcover, 133 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $26.95, published April 1 2013 | purchase
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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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The Best of the Best American Poetry

The Best of the Best American Poetry

by Robert Pinsky

Hardcover, 322 pages, Simon & Schuster, $35, published April 9 2013 | purchase
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  • Robert Pinsky

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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The War Works Hard

The War Works Hard

by Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow and Saadi Simawe

Paperback, 80 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $13.95, published April 1 2005 | purchase
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Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

by Dunya Mikhail

Paperback, 98 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $16.95, published May 5 2009 | purchase
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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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Red Doc

Red Doc

by Anne Carson

Hardcover, 160 pages, Random House Inc, $24.95, published March 5 2013 | purchase
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Looking for the Gulf Motel

Looking for the Gulf Motel

by Richard Blanco

Paperback, 83 pages, University of Pittsburgh Press, $10.85, published February 28 2012 | purchase
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Taps on the Walls: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton

Taps on the Walls

Poems from the Hanoi Hilton

by John Borling

Hardcover, 168 pages, Greenleaf Book Group Llc, $19.95, published February 12 2013 | purchase
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The Colossus

The Colossus

& Other Poems

by Sylvia Plath

Paperback, 83 pages, Random House Inc, $14, published January 1 1998 | purchase
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  • Sylvia Plath

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

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The Love Poems Of Ahmad Shamlu

The Love Poems Of Ahmad Shamlu

by Ahmad Shamlu, Firoozeh Papan-Matin and Arthur Lane

Hardcover, 187 pages, Ibex Pub, $58, published December 1 2005 | purchase
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Metaphysical Dog

Metaphysical Dog

Poems

by Frank Bidart

Hardcover, 112 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $24, published April 30 2013 | purchase
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  • Frank Bidart
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Senegal Taxi

Senegal Taxi

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Paperback, 128 pages, Univ of Arizona Pr, $15.95, published March 21 2013 | purchase
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  • Juan Felipe Herrera
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Incarnadine

Incarnadine

Poems

by Mary Szybist

Paperback, 72 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $15, published February 5 2013 | purchase
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Belmont

Belmont

Poems

by Stephen Burt

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  • Poems
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Lit from Inside

Lit from Inside

40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books

by Anne Marie Macari, Carey Salerno and Maxine Kumin

Paperback, 350 pages, Consortium Book Sales & Dist, $19.95, published February 5 2013 | purchase
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  • 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books
  • Anne Marie Macari, Carey Salerno, et al

"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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Duppy Conqueror

Duppy Conqueror

New and Selected Poems

by Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda

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The Collected Poems of Ron Padgett

by Ron Padgett

Hardcover, 800, Coffee House Press, 49.95, published November 1 2013 | purchase
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Thrall

Thrall

Poems

by Natasha Trethewey

Hardcover, 84 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23, published August 28 2012 | purchase
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  • Natasha Trethewey

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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Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys

Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys

Poems

by D. A. Powell

Hardcover, 80 pages, Graywolf Press, $22, published February 14 2012 | purchase
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Mayakovsky's Revolver

Mayakovsky's Revolver

by Matthew Dickman

Hardcover, 93 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $25.95, published October 1 2012 | purchase
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  • Matthew Dickman

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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Our Lady of the Ruins

Our Lady of the Ruins

by Traci Brimhall

Paperback, 95 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $15.95, published April 2 2012 | purchase
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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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Bender

Bender

New & Selected Poems

by Dean Young

Hardcover, 279 pages, Consortium Book Sales & Dist, $26, published October 30 2012 | purchase
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  • New & Selected Poems
  • Dean Young

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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