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1	Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore An illustrated version of the classic Christmas poem about a visit from St. Nick. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
2	The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems by Charles Bukowski A volume of previously unpublished poems by America's favorite poet laureate of the bar stool. see all copies from $66.10! first editions
3	Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife by Pamela Gemin (Editor) Nearly 100 established and rising baby boom poets address the joys, fears, and challenges of middle age. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
4	Poem a Day: A Wide Range of Classic and Modern Poems by Laurie Sheck (Editor) Like its predecessor, volume two contains 366 entries, one for each day of the year, plus brief, often amusing, always fascinating anecdotes and information about the poets and their poems. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
5	Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook Veteran biographer Diane Middlebrook takes on the Ted Hughes-Sylvia Plath marriage, using new materials (such as Hughes's book HOWLS AND WHISPERS) and stressing the influence each had on the other's poetry. She also writes about Hughes's interest in telepathy, astrology, and mysticism, and acts as his sympathetic defender, refusing to buy into the ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
6	Complete Writings with Variant Readings by William Blake, Geoffrey L Keynes (Editor) see all copies from $2.00!
7	Such Rich Hour by Cole Swensen Swenson offers a collection of fragmented meditations based on the medieval illuminated manuscript THE VERY RICH HOURS OF THE DUKE OF BERRY. Unconventional syntax and repetition that mimics church bells sets the tone. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	Iliad by Homer Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ... see all copies from $3.95! signed copies \| first editions
9	The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham Graham's third book of poetry explores the reality of belief. see all copies from $7.50! signed copies \| first editions
10	My South by Craig McMahon, Robert St John, Bryan Curtis (Editor) What started as a simple advertising campaign for the Turner South network has expanded into a phenomenon. The beautiful language brings the South to life in the experiences, memories and emotions of her people. Includes a DVD. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Light Upon Light: Inspirations from Rumi by Andrew Harvey (Read by) Mystical scholar Andrew Harvey offers fresh interpretations of more than 250 selections from Rumi's major works. The works of Sufi mystic and poet Jalad-ud-Din Rumi have been revered in the East for centuries. Now, Western seekers and lovers of poetry are discovering Rumi in unprecedented numbers. Harvey uses these poems, quotations, and ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12 view cover	Sparrow: New and Selected Poems by Reginald Gibbons, Dave Smith (Editor) Stamped with his signature blend of compassion and conscience - of intimate individuality and the social world in which we confront the implications of our attitudes and beliefsSparrow distills the development of Gibbons' work from the late sixties to the present. These are poems of love, sorrow, keen attentiveness, and a powerful range of emotion ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Odyssey by Homer Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. see all copies from $4.50! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Brigada: Spain (19361939) by Cranston Knight, Sterling Knight The poems in "La are" are about the impact of Spain on La Brigada, the American unit that fought in the Spanish Civil War. As Cranston Knight states, the poems are about "those who struggled in a time vortex to save millions in a forgotten war, a forgotten country." To bridge the cultural and language gap in the telling of these stories, ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Animal That Drank Up Sound by William Stafford Colorful collage illustrations accompany this poem that explores the silence of winter as symbolized by a large bear-like creature that travels through a forest eating all the sounds of summer and fall. Will any creature be able to bring spring back again? see all copies from $8.45! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	A Birth in the Family: Nativity Poems by Norma Farber Norma Farber was the author of more than thirty books. Her poems appeared in periodicals including "The Nation, " "The New Yorker" and "The New York Times." In the manger story, Norma Farber found the purity and potential which the birth of any child may sighty. see all copies from $4.25!
18 view cover	Dreams by Day, Dreams by Night: An Anthology of Poems and Photographs by Nikki Grimes (Foreword by) see all copies from $4.95! first editions
19 view cover	Paradise Lost by John Milton Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of "Paradise Lost", he manages to convey ... see all copies from $3.95! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Aeneid by Virgil Virgil's Homeric epic was not quite completed when he died suddenly in 19 B.C. However, against Virgil's expressed wishes, the emperor Augustus decreed that it be published. It traces the journey of Aeneas to Italy after the Trojan War, where (according to Homer) he was instrumental in the founding of Rome. His voyage is a sequence of reversals ... see all copies from $4.50! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Rock Harbor: Poems by Carl Phillips This sixth volume by Carl Phillips deals with risk and rescue in both history and personal life. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece by Professor Lowell Edmunds (Editor), Professor Robert W Wallace (Editor) Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art, arising from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or drama must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. This book brings together a distinguished group of contributors to reconstruct the performance context of a wide array of works, ... see all copies from $16.95!
23 view cover	Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices by Paul Fleischman, Beppe Giacobbe (Illustrator) A collection of poems to be read aloud by four people, with color-coded text to indicate which lines are read by which readers. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry by Scott Huler A writer's fascination with the exquisite intersection of science and language inspires this riveting account of the Beaufort Scale and how a 19th-century admiral turned the measurement into poetry. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Poets Dante by Peter Hawkins (Editor), Rachel Jacoff (Editor) This collection of essays about Dante includes insight from major poets of the early 20th century, like T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, and W. H. Auden, as well as late-20th-century voices J. D. McClatchy, W. S. Merwin, Rosanna Warren, Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, and Mary Campbell, among others. see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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