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Archy and Mehitabelby Don MarquisISBN 0385094787 (0-385-09478-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archy and Mehitabel'Book summary:Of all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life--except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature. Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he communicates with Don Marquis by leaping upon the keys of the columnist's typewriter. In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat.
Archy music will linger in your head long after you finish the book. Here's a tiny taste from his interview with a mummy:
"what ho
my regal leatherface says igreetings
little scatter footed
scarab
says he"Writers (particularly journalists) can go lifetimes without attaining such loose-limbed grace. And the illustrations by George Herriman ("Krazy Kat") provide the perfect counterpoint. On top of all that, Marquis did the impossible: he made a cockroach loveable. [via]
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The Best Loved Poems of the American Peopleby Hazel FellemanISBN 0385000197 (0-385-00019-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Loved Poems of the American People'Book summary:More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a collection that will be treasured. [via]
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The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly Godby Rainer Maria Rilke, Annemarie S. KidderISBN 0810118882 (0-8101-1888-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Byron - Selected Proseby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0140430806 (0-14-043080-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, David RoesselISBN 0679764089 (0-679-76408-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes'Book summary:"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 1853264067 (1-85326-406-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Lord Byron'Book summary:'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be', wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major political, cultural and social concerns of the day.
This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and A Vision of Judgement. Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious 'Byronic myth' of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal. [via]More editions of The Collected Poems of Lord Byron:
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Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Edna st Vincent MillayISBN 0060910917 (0-06-091091-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:More than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition.
An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples of the poet's variations in sonnet structure. Here is the voice of Millay, whose prophetic vision, devotion to freedom, and intellectual daring combine with her mastery of the sonnet form to speak eloquently for the human spirit. [via]
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donneby John Donne, Charles M. CoffinISBN 0375757341 (0-375-75734-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne'Book summary:This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie", "His Parting From Her", and "To His Mistris Going to Bed". Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; B>Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell". "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time." [via]
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Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crowby Ted HughesISBN 0060909056 (0-06-090905-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow'Book summary:Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost funny, story in which natural forces and creatures, mythic figures, even parts of the body, act out their special roles, each endowed with its own irrepressible life. With Crow, Hughes joins the select band of survivor-poets whose work is adequate to the destructive reality we inhabit'.[via]More editions of Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow:
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Hardcover, Faber - Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow: ISBN 0571095631 (0-571-09563-1)
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0891906606 (0-89190-660-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron, Louis KronenbergerISBN 0394605101 (0-394-60510-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Don Juanby Leslie A. Marchand, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 039505138X (0-395-05138-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Juan'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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The Dream of a Common Languageby Adrienne RichISBN 0393310337 (0-393-31033-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Fact of a Doorframeby Adrienne Cecile RichISBN 0393323951 (0-393-32395-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fact of a Doorframe'Book summary:A selection of poems from nine of Adrienne Rich's earlier books, to which she adds new work and four early "lost" poems. [via]
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- The Fact of a Doorframe: ISBN 0393302040 (0-393-30204-0)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellowby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frances Schoonmaker, Chad WallaceISBN 0806994177 (0-8069-9417-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'Book summary:Children instinctively love poetry, with its appealing mixture of rhythm and rhyme. And Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with his suspenseful narrative verse, deceptively simple structure, and powerful images of 19th-century United States, makes an especially suitable subject for the critically acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Brilliant, specially commissioned artwork brings to life all the atmosphere, drama, and emotion of his writing: the vital energy of "The Village Blacksmith," the urgency of "Paul Revere's Ride," and the sorrow of "The Wreck of the Hesperus." An opening essay tells of Longfellow's life: his childhood in Maine, his family history (the Longfellows played a major role in New England politics), his success as a professor of foreign languages, and his often-tragic personal life. More than just a biography, it reveals the inspiration for many of Longfellow's most popular works. Nearly 30 poems appear, most in their entirety, including "The Arrow and the Song," "The Rainy Day," "Woods in Winter," "The Forest Primeval" (from "Evangeline"), "Hiawatha's Childhood" (from "Song of Hiawatha"), "A Psalm of Life," and the abolitionist "The Witnesses." As always in this series, supplementary word definitions give children the knowledge they need to fully understand the poems. 48 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.[via]More editions of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poemsby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0517082462 (0-517-08246-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860191 (0-87286-019-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960'Book summary:[via]Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .
In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.
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Lord Byronby George Gordon Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140423818 (0-14-042381-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...
--From "She Walks in Beauty"[via]
Satirical, shocking, romantic and dramatic, Lord Byron remains a stellar figure as a poet and as a man. His most celebrated poems appear in this magnificent compilation, from Inscription on the Monument of a Newfound Dog, in which man contrasts unfavorably with his canine companion, to excerpts from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Beppo, and Don Juan.
Lord Byron's Don Juanby Lord ByronISBN 0877547335 (0-87754-733-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Love Is a Dog from Hellby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876853629 (0-87685-362-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977by Charles BukowskiISBN 0876853637 (0-87685-363-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Formsby Mark Strand, Eavan BolandISBN 0393321789 (0-393-32178-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'Book summary:The Making of a Poem is among the best how-to-read-poetry titles. Edited by two of our greatest living poets, one Irish and female, the other American and male, it is both an exploration of poetic forms and an anthology. Eavan Boland and Mark Strand each offer an introduction and then give us a series of chapters devoted to particular verse forms--the sonnet, the ballad, the sestina, the villanelle, blank verse, the stanza--as well as a long section devoted to what they somewhat vaguely call shaping forms. This refers to poetic structures established not by a specific rhyme and/or metrical pattern but by content: the elegy, for example, or the pastoral or ode. The book then concludes with a section on open forms. Each chapter is conveniently subdivided, each topic simply defined: a single page gives "The Ballad at a Glance" (or, for that matter, the pantoum) as a quick overview of the form's structure. A page or two on the history of the form follows, along with a brief comment on "the contemporary context." Then a chronological anthology of poems demonstrates the particular form. In the sonnet's case, for instance, we are treated to 23 brilliantly chosen examples--everything from Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" to Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern" to Mary Jo Salter's playful "Half a Double Sonnet." The section then concludes with another brief analysis of one example. In this spot, the villanelle features Elizabeth Bishop's classic heartbreaker, "One Art," and blank verse gives us far too brief a take on Robert Frost's tantalizing "Directive." Itself worth the price of admission, the poem begins:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
One can readily see both the advantages and the limitations of such a format: definitions are kept lean, at times approaching the sound bite, and the short sentences and brief paragraphs often seem designed for a readership more accustomed to journalism than to the complexities of Dante (see, for example, the one-page history of the sestina). All of this looks like an attempt to reach an audience of both college students and general readers. While more information might help (brief comments on why certain poems in the anthology are defined as odes, pastorals, or elegies, for example), the bottom line is that The Making of a Poem does an excellent job of taking the inexperienced reader inside the mystery of poetic form. In these terms the volume succeeds, giving us a way into the history of poetry, along with an excellent anthology as a starting point for a deeper exploration of the glories of the genre. --Doug Thorpe [via]
Back in a time made simply by the loss
of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more than a house
Upon a farm that is no more than a farm
And in a town that is no more than a town.
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New Lifeby Dante Alighieri, J. G. NicholsISBN 1843910462 (1-84391-046-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Life'Book summary:[via]Considered by many to be the masterpiece of Dantes youth, New Life is one of the finest poetical works and the first example of the modern novel in Italian. At the age of 9, Dante met and fell in love with Beatrice. Although she died very young, she remained his lifelong muse. New Life is Dantes profound attempt to reconcile the deep anguish he suffered after her loss and to capture something of her eternal beauty, seeing her as the universal figure of woman. Incorporating poems and prose, and distinguished by Dantes remarkable linguistic style, New Life remains one of the greatest works in the literature of love. Author of the masterpiece The Divine Comedy, Florentine Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest writers of all time.More editions of New Life:
The New Lifeby Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti Dante, Michael Palmer, Gabriel DanteISBN 0940322870 (0-940322-87-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The New Lifeby Rossetti Dante, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 1590170113 (1-59017-011-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Life'Book summary:The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.
The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right. [via]More editions of The New Life:
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Withinby Stephen FryISBN 1592402488 (1-59240-248-8)
Hardcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within'Book summary:I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teacher invited the class to "respond" to a poem. In The Ode Less Travelled, Fry sets out to correct this problem by giving aspiring poets the tools and confidence they need to write poetry for pleasure.Fry is a wonderfully engaging teacher and writer of poetry himself, and he explains the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. His enjoyable exercises and witty insights introduce the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Aspiring poets will learn to write a sonnet, on ode, a villanelle, a ballad, and a haiku, among others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of, but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. [via]
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Patersonby William Carlos Williams, Christopher J. MacGowanISBN 0811212254 (0-8112-1225-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paterson'Book summary:Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, WIlliam Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us life" (Denis Donoghue).
Paterson is both a placethe New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of teh Passaic River" from above the great falls to its entrance into the sea. The unexpected Book Five, published in 1958, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This revised edition has been meticulously re-edited by Christopher MacGowan, who has supplied a wealth of notes and explanatory material. [via]More editions of Paterson:
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Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetryby Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp, Greg JohnsonISBN 0155073966 (0-15-507396-6)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry'Book summary:Assigned more than any other introductory poetry text on the market! [via]
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Poems and Other Writingsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J.D. McClatchyISBN 188301185X (1-883011-85-X)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Poems from the Book of Hours = Das Stundenbuchby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0811205959 (0-8112-0595-9)
Softcover, New Directions
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A Poetry Handbookby Mary OliverISBN 0156724006 (0-15-672400-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poetry Handbook'Book summary:This slender guide by Mary Oliver deserves a place on the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms (and lack thereof), tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of wonderful poems (too bad Oliver was so modest as to not include her own). What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's passion for her subject, which she describes as "a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind." One comes away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is good, hard work. [via]
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Rilke: Poemsby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 067945098X (0-679-45098-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilke: Poems'Book summary:The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rilke contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines. [via]
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to Godby Rainer Maria Rilke, Joanna MacY, Anita BarrowsISBN 1594481563 (1-59448-156-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God'Book summary:An inspirational collection of poetry, based on the Book of Hours--psalms and prayers for various times throughout the day--used by monks, offers prayers and songs that address such concerns as spirituality in the modern age and the sufferings of war, poverty, and disease. [via]
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to Godby Joanna MacY, Anita BarrowsISBN 1573225851 (1-57322-585-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poemsby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0486272664 (0-486-27266-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems'Book summary:Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes: "Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me," "Frost at Midnight," "The Nightingale," "The Pains of Sleep," "To William Wordsworth," "Youth and Age," many more. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.[via]More editions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems:
Selected Poemsby Byron, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. ManningISBN 0140424504 (0-14-042450-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:[via]Richly varied in mood and content, 31 poems include convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are "She Walks in Beauty," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Vision of Judgment," many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes.
Selected Poemsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lawrence BuellISBN 0140390642 (0-14-039064-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Selected Poemsby Walt WhitmanISBN 0486268780 (0-486-26878-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass. Selections include "I Hear America Singing," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" all reprinted from an authoritative text.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
Selected Poems by Walt Whitmanby Walt WhitmanISBN 0312097549 (0-312-09754-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Selected Poems of William Wordsworthby Roger SharrockISBN 0435150154 (0-435-15015-4)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems of William Wordsworth'Book summary:This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems. [via]
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Selected Poetryby William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill, Duncan WuISBN 0192834886 (0-19-283488-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry'Book summary:William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets. His unique relationship with the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founded in the political and social ferment of 1795, produced a revolution in literature, resulting in the joint volume, Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805)--a landmark in the history of English Romanticism. This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all Wordsworth's finest lyrics, and a large sample of The Prelude (1805), his extraordinary autobiographical poem in blank verse and the first truly great achievement of a new era in English poetry. [via]
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Mark Van Doren, David BromwichISBN 0375759417 (0-375-75941-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth'Book summary:The most inclusive single-volume cloth edition of his poetry available, Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth, edited by literary critic and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mark Van Doren, with a new Introduction by leading Romanticist David Bromwich, represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events.
"[Wordsworth] is loved, Bromwich writes in his Introduction, for a sense of radical sufficiency in the fact that life is the faith of many people who espouse a religion without a name. Wordsworth writes of a human nature that is not to be judged by the utility of some goods over others, the propriety of some behaviors, or the reasonableness of getting and spending as the market teaches getting and spending.
The life his poetry describes cannot be reduced to a series of preferable and less preferable options. We learn its deeper claim in the presence of suffering and joy, in suffering not less than in joy. [via]More editions of Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth:
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Shelley's Poetry and Proseby Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil FraistatISBN 0393977528 (0-393-97752-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelley's Poetry and Prose'Book summary:This volume contains one of the fullest, and certainly the most accurately edited, collections of Shelley's poetry and prose currently available. All the texts have been re-edited from primary sources especially for this edition.
All the poems and prose pieces have been thoroughly annotated, with unusual diction defined and with all biographical, historical, topographical, and literary allusions identified (many of them for the first time anywhere). [via]
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Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetryby Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp, Greg JohnsonISBN 1413010571 (1-4130-1057-1)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sound and Sense'Book summary:Normal visible cover wear, binding tight, writing and markings inside [via]
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Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry: ISBN 0155826026 (0-15-582602-6)
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- Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry: ISBN 0155037439 (0-15-503743-9)
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songsby Leonard CohenISBN 0679755411 (0-679-75541-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs'Book summary:The publication of Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs brought Leonard Cohen's poetry, which had long been obscured by his intermittently prolific recording career, back into prominence. His poems will be instantly familiar to fans of his music or novels; they share the same cynical romanticism, morbid eroticism, and ironic humour. Many of his poems are spare and declamatory, relying on the intensity of their imagery and the wryness of their speaker to produce their effect. The opening lines of "The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961" are exemplary:
Is there anything emptier
Cohen is such an old-fashioned bard that it is often difficult to believe he inhabits the same literary landscape that nurtures postmodern experimentalism. Most of his poems are richly lyrical, which made his turn to songwriting a natural one. Published collections of lyrics are seldom very satisfying, though, and even Cohen's best songs, such as the unforgettable "Suzanne" or the spare and sublime "Anthem," lose most of their intensity on paper. Stranger Music contains material from nearly all of Cohen's important works; even his experimental novel Beautiful Losers is represented. Cohen has published very little new material since 1983's Book of Mercy, and, unless he enters another period of productivity, Stranger Music will remain the definitive Cohen collection for a very long time. --Jack Illingworth [via]
than the drawer where
you used to store your opium?
How like a black-eyed Susan
blinded into ordinary daisy
is my pretty kitchen drawer!
How like a nose sans nostrils
is my bare wooden drawer!
How like an eggless basket!
How like a pool sans tortoise!More editions of Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs:
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View With a Grain of Sandby Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisaw BaranczakISBN 0156002167 (0-15-600216-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'View With a Grain of Sand'Book summary:True, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy have made more than their share of bloopers. But when they bestowed the Nobel Prize upon Wislawa Szymborska in 1996, they got it right, rescuing a major poet from minor obscurity. Two previous collections of her work had appeared in English, of course. Yet View with a Grain of Sand is by far the best introduction to the Polish writer, conveying not only the fantastic lightness of her touch but the entire worlds she manages to pack into, as it were, a grain of sand. Miniscule wonders are her specialty, such as the tableau she records in "Miracle Fair": "The usual miracle: / invisible dogs barking / in the dead of night. / One of many miracles: / a small and airy cloud / is able to upstage the massive moon." Yet Szymborska is also a love poet of peculiar tartness:
True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.
What comes along so rarely, in fact, is a writer of this quality--and a translation that does her justice. Szymborska's brilliance would probably overpower even a second-rate rendering into English. But thanks to the efforts of Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, she is not only brilliant but supremely readable--an intellectual comedian for whom "there's nothing more debauched than thinking." [via]
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Vita Nuovaby Dante Alighieri, Mark MusaISBN 0192839357 (0-19-283935-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vita Nuova'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr - LA Vita Nuova: ISBN 0486419150 (0-486-41915-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Vita Nuova: ISBN 0192828770 (0-19-282877-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Vita Nuova: A Translation and an Essay: ISBN 0253316200 (0-253-31620-0)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press - Vita Nuova: ISBN 0192839357 (0-19-283935-7)
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- Dante's Vita Nuova: ISBN 0253201624 (0-253-20162-4)
Vita Nuova: Italian Text With Facing English Translationby Dino S. Cervigni, Edward Vasta, Alighieri DanteISBN 0268019258 (0-268-01925-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Walt Whitmanby Walt Whitman, Harold BloomISBN 1931082324 (1-931082-32-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman'Book summary:Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late poems of Good-bye My Fancy. [via]
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Walt Whitman : Selected Poemsby Walt WhitmanISBN 0517073978 (0-517-07397-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman : Selected Poems'Book summary:The poetry of Walt Whitman is the cornerstone of modern American verse. He was America's first truly great poet and his influence is still evident today. The first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, was a revolutionary manifesto declaring America's independence from European cultural domination. His rhapsodic free verse broke radically with poetic, tradition: it was poetry about America, its democracy, its people, and its hopes. It was uniquely American without apologybrash, proud, optimistic, and filled with the bustling energy of the new and growing nation.
This collection brings together Whitman's greatest and most famous poems spanning the whole of his career. From the groundbreaking first edition of Leaves of Grass are seven poems, including "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric."
From later editions there are such masterpieces as "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and "I Hear America Singing." Also included is Whitman's great cycle of Civil War Poems, Drum-Taps, which he wrote in the months when he was ministering to the wounded in battlefield hospitals. Concluding this collection is one of his last poems, "Good-bye My Fancy!"his touching farewell to his muse, his life, and his readers.
More than one hundred years after his death, Walt Whitman's poetry has become part of the American heritage. It is a visionary which speaks as aptly to readers today as it will to future generations. As he says in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "others...look back on me because I look'd forward to them." Whitman's poetry is a link that connects all Americanspast, present, and future.
This book features a deluxe cover, ribbon marker, top stain, and decorative endpaper with a nameplate. [via]More editions of Walt Whitman : Selected Poems:
William Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 0882951033 (0-88295-103-3)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth'Book summary:This selection of poetry concentrates on Wordsworth's greatest poems including "Lyrical Ballads", several tales from "The Excursion" and over half of "The Prelude". [via]
William Wordsworthby Mark Van DorenISBN 0075536358 (0-07-553635-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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William Wordsworthby Stephen LoganISBN 0460879464 (0-460-87946-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth'Book summary:A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet. [via]
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William Wordsworth: Selected Poemsby William Wordsworth, Stephen GillISBN 0140424423 (0-14-042442-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wordsworth: Selected Poems'Book summary:William Wordsworth is one of the beloved English poets of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. This edition of his selected poems includes classics like:
" "The Prelude"
" "Tintern Abbey"
" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
" "The World is Too Much With Us"
" "To a Butterfly"
" "We Are Seven"
Elegantly packaged with a ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addition to any poetry library. [via]More editions of William Wordsworth: Selected Poems:
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Wordsworthby William Wordsworth, Nicholas RoeISBN 014058661X (0-14-058661-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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