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1	Collected Poems more books like this by Sylvia Plath add to wishlist All Plath's work is included in this Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, including her juvenilia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 more books like this by Donald Hall add to wishlist One of the most acclaimed poets of his generation presents his first volume of selected works in 15 years and the first to include poems from his seminal bestseller, "Without." Includes a specially recorded CD of Hall reading his favorite poems from the book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Different Hours: Poems more books like this by Stephen Dunn add to wishlist In his 11th volume of poetry, Dunn explores the "different hours" not only of a life but also of the historical and philosophical landscape beyond the personal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	All of Us: The Collected Poems more books like this by Raymond Carver add to wishlist More than 300 poems--Carver's entire output--are collected in this volume, including previously uncollected poems, publication details, and an introduction by Tess Gallagher, his widow. see all copies from $4.97! new only from $11.48! \| first editions
5	Selected Poems: 1965-1975 more books like this by Margaret Atwood add to wishlist Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $13.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge more books like this by Delmore Schwartz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions
8	Never: Poems more books like this by Jorie Graham add to wishlist In her ninth collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham continues her project of seeing deeply into both the natural world and the pacings of the mind. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The invisible poet : T.S.Eliot. more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! first editions
10	A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910-1950 more books like this by Albert Gelpi, PH.D. add to wishlist In this book Albert Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $29.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Figured Wheel more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist This work includes 16 new poems as well as a sampling from Pinsky's other books; the poems include such diverse subjects as a baseball game, the poet's daughter, and psychiatrists. Winner of "The Nation" magazine's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1997. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Travels more books like this by W S Merwin add to wishlist This series of 49 unpunctuated poems, Merwin's 19th collection, includes narratives based on the lives of such historical personages as Rimbaud, the explorer Cordova, the naturalist David Douglas, and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle more books like this by Pat Mora add to wishlist A Latina poet, educator, mother, national speaker, and literacy advocate, Pat Mora is a cultural resident of nepantla - a Nahuatl word meaning 'land in the middle.' In this important collection of essays, Mora explores personal issues and political responsibilities. Characterized by a keen sense of community, "Nepantla" is an important ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $12.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Robert Pinsky add to wishlist This work includes 16 new poems as well as a sampling from Pinsky's other books; the poems include such diverse subjects as a baseball game, the poet's daughter, and psychiatrists. Winner of "The Nation" magazine's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1997. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	For a Living: The Poetry of Work more books like this by Nicholas Coles (Editor), Peter Oresick (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.00! \| SVS
16	Thought and Vision: A Critical Reading of H.D.'s Poetry more books like this by Angela Dipace Fritz add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! new only from $26.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Devil's Child more books like this by Fleda Brown Jackson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies
18	Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work more books like this by Edward Butscher (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry more books like this by Alan Dugan add to wishlist Dugan has written six collections since his groundbreaking 1961 debut as a Yale Younger Poets selection, singing the ugly truths of postwar America with wit. All six volumes are collected here, along with 35 poems penned in the 1990s. This title received the 2001 National Book Award, Dugan's second time winning the honor. A New York Times Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Pebbles Monochromes & Other Modern Poems: 1891-1916 more books like this by William Dean Howells, Edwin Cady (Editor) add to wishlist For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in 1889. The blow altered him radically. Among other changes, a poetry new to him emerged, a poetry in the modern tradition. This "new" poetry is ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987 more books like this by Diane Wakoski add to wishlist In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in "Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, 'and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and "one of the most important and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Poems more books like this by Anne Michaels add to wishlist A collection of poems by Anne Michaels. The poems are meditations on how love changes in order to survive, how we move from "obsolete science" to new perceptions, and how, in her words, "the same loneliness that closes us/ Opens us again". see all copies from $15.56! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Darling: Poems more books like this by Honor Moore add to wishlist This second collection of poems contains frank details about Moore's experiences with sex and love, from her early encounters as a student in the 1960s to her lesbian adulthood. Autobiographical work is joined by vivid explorations of the visual arts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Ferlinghetti: Portraits more books like this by Lawrence Ferlinghetti add to wishlist Poet and City Lights publisher Ferlinghetti is the subject of this photographic study by filmmaker and photographer Christopher Felver. Some of Ferlinghetti's best-known works, and one previously-unpublished poem, are included amongst Felver's 100 duotone portraits of Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Di Prima and other Beat authors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Selected Poems: Perennial Classics Edition more books like this by Edna St Vincent Millay, Richard Eberhart (Foreword by) add to wishlist A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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