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1	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats more books like this by Professor T S Eliot add to wishlist This playful collection is the source of the fantastically successful Broadway musical, "Cats". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Dream Work more books like this by Mary Oliver add to wishlist Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness -- so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive -- continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Divine Comedy more books like this by Dante Alighieri add to wishlist "The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Selected Poems more books like this by William Carlos Williams add to wishlist Williams's poetry is characterized by formal freedom--inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman--coupled with an imagistic conciseness; like Pound, Williams believed that concrete details need no explanation, that ideas must be embodied in images. His poems are full of everyday objects; they celebrate the ordinary and the seemingly trivial--though ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	She Had Some Horses more books like this by Joy Harjo add to wishlist Presents an exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. This book speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society but also of their awakenings, power and love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Collected Poems more books like this by Robert C Hayden add to wishlist Robert Hayden was one of the most important African American poets of the twentieth century, and a celebrant of the black experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Far Rockaway of the Heart more books like this by Lawrence Ferlinghetti add to wishlist A companion piece to "A Coney Island of the Mind", this volume continues Ferlinghetti's themes of love, light, art, history, and the American landscape. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Animals more books like this by Richard Grossman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Cantos more books like this by Ezra Pound add to wishlist see all copies from $14.03! new only from $16.17! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Weather of the Heart more books like this by Madeleine L'Engle add to wishlist A collection of writings related to the Christmas season. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Shells more books like this by Craig Arnold add to wishlist Winner of the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Craig Arnold's Shells was acclaimed as "a gifted collection of daring writing" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The book is an intriguing set of variations on the theme of identity. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self ... see all copies from $10.79! new only from $19.33! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Void of Course more books like this by Jim Carroll add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "The Basketball Diaries", "Void of Course" is a collection of poetry that vibrates with the details of everyday city life. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry more books like this by Patrick Cheney (Editor) add to wishlist This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Good Thief more books like this by Marie Howe add to wishlist Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Ms. Howe's early writings concern relationship, attachment, and loss, in a highly original search for personal transcendence. Many of the thirty-four poems in The Good Thief ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $7.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Song of Napalm more books like this by Bruce Weigl, Weigi add to wishlist "Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heartwrenching, and often very funny poems. It's a narrative, the story of an American innocent's descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have written the best novel so far about the Vietnam War, and along the way a dozen truly memorable poems ... see all copies from $2.40! new only from $6.27! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Love Poems of James Laughlin more books like this by James Laughlin add to wishlist As a poet, the late James Laughlin was perhaps best known for his love lyrics. Marjorie Perloff wrote: "Who else...writes such bittersweet, ironic,. rueful, erotic, tough-minded, witty love poems, poems that run the gamut from ecstasy to loss?" In "Parnassus," Jonathan Williams asks "Did the Roman masters (Horace, Catullus, Propertius, Martial, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.04! \| first editions
17	Edmund Spenser's Poetry more books like this by Hugh MacLean (Editor), Edmund Spenser add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems more books like this by David Wagoner add to wishlist 'David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. "The Antioch Review" has ascribed to him a 'profoundly earthbound sanity', while "Publishers Weekly" credits him with a 'plainspoken formal virtuosity' and a ... see all copies from $18.94! new only from $21.12! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Last Night of the Earth Poems more books like this by Charles Bukowski add to wishlist Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. see all copies from $9.24! new only from $11.13! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Things and Flesh more books like this by Linda Gregg add to wishlist Gregg's fifth book of poems focuses largely on redemption from suffering and frequently casts that redemption in quasi-religious terms. Other poems concern travel, loneliness, and love, and a few poems pay homage to other poets, including George Oppen and Joseph Brodsky. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $10.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Brass Knuckles more books like this by Stuart Dybek add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! new only from $17.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Mad Dogs of Trieste: New & Selected Poems more books like this by Janine Pommy Vega, Janine Pommy-Vega add to wishlist This collection includes poems written in the 1970s, when the poet was associated with the late-period Beat movement, as well as more recent pieces from the '80s and '90s which still often reflect the Beat sensibility, some of which elegize major Beat figures. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Weave Room more books like this by Michael Chitwood add to wishlist The poems in The Weave Room reveal the life of a textile mill as it weathers a decisive social and human moment. Whether speaking in the voice of a weaver trying to quell a crowd about to turn violent over unionization or in his own voice as one of the mill's employees, Chitwood brings together many social and historical threads to show the ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $16.75! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Residence on Earth (Residencia En La Tierra) more books like this by Pablo Neruda add to wishlist This three-volume cycle of poems established Neruda as a leading figure in 20th-century poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.94! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Dear Judas, and Other Poems more books like this by Robinson Jeffers, Robert J. Brophy (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! signed copies \| first editions

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