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A. A. Milneby A. A. MilneISBN 0525457240 (0-525-45724-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A. A. Milne'Book summary:Seventy-five years ago, that most beloved of "silly old bears," Winnie- the-Pooh, came down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump," on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. And now, after generations of children have grown up on stories about Pooh's adventures with his forest friends, the four all-time children's classics from A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard have been collected in one hefty, handsome volume for another multitude of generations to enjoy. Gathered together are the poems and tales that celebrate heffalumps, Eeyore's birthday, the unbouncing of Tigger, Disobedience, Buckingham Palace, and sneezles. The stories about Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's doorway, Piglet doing a "Very Grand Thing," and Eeyore losing a tail (and Pooh finding one) are timeless favorites for children--and grownups--of all ages. Four original classics are here, in all their glory: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six. This beautiful edition features complete, unabridged text and all of Shepard's original illustrations, each hand painted in watercolors--this is a true collector's gem. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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American Poetryby John HollanderISBN 094045078X (0-940450-78-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Philip Freneau to Walt Whitmanby John HollanderISBN 0940450607 (0-940450-60-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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April Galleonsby John AshberyISBN 0374525889 (0-374-52588-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verseby W. H. Auden, Edward MendelsonISBN 0679761705 (0-679-76170-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Audenby W. H. AudenISBN 0679443673 (0-679-44367-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Beowulf, a Hero's Tale Retoldby James RumfordISBN 061875637X (0-618-75637-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Poetry 2000by David Lehman, Rita DoveISBN 0743200330 (0-7432-0033-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Poetry 2000'Book summary:In her introduction to The Best American Poetry 2000, Rita Dove offers the key to honest appreciation: read the work for itself, not for its creator's name and rank on the great chain of poetic being. With luck it will take the top of your head off, though some poems may only elicit a tingle the first time around. Put those away and come back another time, in another mood. "A poem must sing," she writes, "even if the song elicits horror." And the 75 she ultimately chose--by such poetic senior citizens as Lucille Clifton, Thom Gunn, W.S. Merwin, and the as yet unacknowledged--both sing and explode. Her harvest is as varied and abundant as the garden (and gardener!) Stanley Plumley celebrates in "Kunitz Tending Roses":
Still, there he is, on any given day,
Dove does find certain trends, ranging from "the interpolation of personal chronicles with the larger sweep of events" to "elegies for the passing of heroes, of good times, of innocence." Certainly, more than one therapist pops up here--in, for instance, Pamela Sutton's mesmerizing "There Is a Lake of Ice on the Moon" and in Denise Duhamel's intricate "Incest Taboo" (which is a lot more subtle than its title would give out). This dislocating double sestina's 13 stanzas juggle a fear of birds, a brother's death, alcoholism, familial expectations, and so much more. Set free by the form's constraints--the same end-words must recur in each stanza--this poet uses such phrases as "parrot," swoop," "wrong, "hover," hum," and "mother" to great effect, ironies and tragedies accreting. As Duhamel writes in the contributors' notes: "I felt as though I were doing a strenuous combination of math, crossword puzzles, and particle physics."
talking to ramblers, floribundas, Victorian
perpetuals, as if for beauty and to make us
glad or otherwise for envy and to make us
wish for more--if only to mystify and move us.
Some poems are definitely augmented by their creators' explanations--and their prose is often as eloquent as their verse. Others require none. Yet what threatens to steal the poetic show occurs after these comments. The series wizard, David Lehman, asked past and present guest editors to cite their top 15 20th-century American poems, in alphabetical order. It's impossible not to gravitate to this section and silently argue with some selections, approve others wholeheartedly, discover a few for the first time, and remonstrate over certain absences. How marvelous, if unsurprising, to see so many poets voting for Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop (who scores particularly high), and two whom John Hollander wittily terms "the transatlantic problematics," Auden and Eliot. If only Lehman had asked each editor to expound on his or her choices. In this list context, Louise Glück's refusal to "prefer merely fifteen" proves as inspiring as others' elections. Still, it's amusing to watch such poets as Mark Strand, A.R. Ammons, and Lehman himself look for loopholes and stuff the ballot box with also-rans. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Best American Poetry 2000by Rita Dove, David LehmanISBN 0684842815 (0-684-84281-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Still, there he is, on any given day,
Dove does find certain trends, ranging from "the interpolation of personal chronicles with the larger sweep of events" to "elegies for the passing of heroes, of good times, of innocence." Certainly, more than one therapist pops up here--in, for instance, Pamela Sutton's mesmerizing "There Is a Lake of Ice on the Moon" and in Denise Duhamel's intricate "Incest Taboo" (which is a lot more subtle than its title would give out). This dislocating double sestina's 13 stanzas juggle a fear of birds, a brother's death, alcoholism, familial expectations, and so much more. Set free by the form's constraints--the same end-words must recur in each stanza--this poet uses such phrases as "parrot," swoop," "wrong, "hover," hum," and "mother" to great effect, ironies and tragedies accreting. As Duhamel writes in the contributors' notes: "I felt as though I were doing a strenuous combination of math, crossword puzzles, and particle physics."
talking to ramblers, floribundas, Victorian
perpetuals, as if for beauty and to make us
glad or otherwise for envy and to make us
wish for more--if only to mystify and move us.
Some poems are definitely augmented by their creators' explanations--and their prose is often as eloquent as their verse. Others require none. Yet what threatens to steal the poetic show occurs after these comments. The series wizard, David Lehman, asked past and present guest editors to cite their top 15 20th-century American poems, in alphabetical order. It's impossible not to gravitate to this section and silently argue with some selections, approve others wholeheartedly, discover a few for the first time, and remonstrate over certain absences. How marvelous, if unsurprising, to see so many poets voting for Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop (who scores particularly high), and two whom John Hollander wittily terms "the transatlantic problematics," Auden and Eliot. If only Lehman had asked each editor to expound on his or her choices. In this list context, Louise Glück's refusal to "prefer merely fifteen" proves as inspiring as others' elections. Still, it's amusing to watch such poets as Mark Strand, A.R. Ammons, and Lehman himself look for loopholes and stuff the ballot box with also-rans. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Best American Poetry 2002by Robert CreeleyISBN 0743203860 (0-7432-0386-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Best American Poetry 2003by David Lehman, Yusef KomunyakaaISBN 0743203887 (0-7432-0388-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Poetry 2003'Book summary:"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his singular vision to this outstanding volume. Included here is a diverse mix of senior masters, crowd-pleasing bards, rising stars, and the fresh voices of an emerging generation. With comments from the poets elucidating their work and series editor David Lehman's eloquent foreword assessing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a must-have for readers of contemporary poetry.
Jonathan Aaron " Beth Anderson " Nin Andrews " Wendell Berry " Frank Bidart " Diann Blakely " Bruce Bond " Catherine Bowman " Rosemary Catacalos " Joshua Clover " Billy Collins " Michael S. Collins " Carl Dennis " Susan Dickman " Rita Dove " Stephen Dunn " Stuart Dybek " Charles Fort " James Galvin " Amy Gerstler " Louise Glück " Michael Goldman " Ray Gonzalez " Linda Gregg " Mark Halliday " Michael S. Harper " Matthea Harvey " George Higgins " Edward Hirsch " Tony Hoagland " Richard Howard " Rodney Jones " Joy Katz " Brigit Pegeen Kelly " Galway Kinnell " Carolyn Kizer " Jennifer L. Knox " Kenneth Koch " John Koethe " Ted Kooser " Philip Levine " J. D. McClatchy " W. S. Merwin " Heather Moss " Stanley Moss " Paul Muldoon " Peggy Munson " Marilyn Nelson " Daniel Nester " Naomi Shihab Nye " Ishle Yi Park " Robert Pinsky " Kevin Prufer " Ed Roberson " Vijay Seshadri " Alan Shapiro " Myra Shapiro " Bruce Smith " Charlie Smith " Maura Stanton " Ruth Stone " James Tate " William Tremblay " Natasha Trethewey " David Wagoner " Ronald Wallace " Lewis Warsh " Susan Wheeler " Richard Wilbur " C. K. Williams " Terence Winch " David Wojahn Robert Wrigley " Anna Ziegler " Ahmos Zu-Bolton II [via]
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The Black Unicornby Audre LordeISBN 0393312372 (0-393-31237-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000by Lucille CliftonISBN 1880238888 (1-880238-88-8)
Softcover, Boa Editions
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The Blue Estuariesby Louise BoganISBN 0374524610 (0-374-52461-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Estuaries'Book summary:Honored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades.[via]
Blue Hourby Carolyn ForcheISBN 0060099135 (0-06-009913-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Bridge: A Poemby Hart CraneISBN 0871402254 (0-87140-225-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity." [via]More editions of The Bridge: A Poem:
Christopher Robin Story Bookby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 0525279334 (0-525-27933-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Collected Poems 1937-1971by John BerrymanISBN 0374522812 (0-374-52281-2)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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The Complete Poems Of Stephen Craneby Stephen CraneISBN 0801491304 (0-8014-9130-4)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Complete Poems of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525460772 (0-525-46077-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:"'Let's frighten the dragons,' I said to Pooh. / 'That's right,' said Pooh to Me. / 'I'm not afraid,' I said to Pooh, / And I held his paw and I shouted, 'Shoo! / Silly old dragons!'--and off they flew," says Christopher Robin in A.A. Milne's well-loved poem "Us Two." Milne (1882-1956) didn't start writing for children until 1920, when his son, the real Christopher Robin, was a year old. That's about when his wife Daphne envisioned her son's stuffed Harrods bear, tiger, pig, kangaroo, and donkey as characters in a children's book. And the rest is history! By 1924, Milne had published When We Were Very Young, a whimsical collection of verses illustrated in gentle watercolors by Ernest H. Shepard; Now We Are Six, a second collection, followed in 1927. This hefty, full-color volume brings together all of Milne's verses, unabridged. If you fondly remember "James James / Morrison Morrison / Weatherby George Dupree / Took great / Care of his Mother, / Though he was only three," from "Disobedience," or "Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow, / Leonard was a lion with a six-foot tail, / George was a goat, and his beard was yellow, / And James was a very small snail," from "The Four Friends," this fabulous collection will send you into a dreamy reverie. And for those young readers to whom Pooh is new, these innocent, gently humorous, 70-year-old poems--along with The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh--will still resonate deeply. (All ages) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525467262 (0-525-46726-2)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Staffordby Robert Bly, William StaffordISBN 0060553286 (0-06-055328-6)
Hardcover, HarperPerennial
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The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Staffordby William Stafford, Robert BlyISBN 0060969164 (0-06-096916-4)
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English Sixteenth-Century Verse: An AnthologyISBN 0393302067 (0-393-30206-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Errancyby Jorie GrahamISBN 0880015292 (0-88001-529-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Essays and Poemsby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 1883011329 (1-883011-32-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays and Poems'Book summary:Nietzsche never traveled anywhere without his volume of Emerson's essays; Matthew Arnold described Emerson as "the greatest prose writer this century." Considered in his own time a profoundly radical thinker, later reviewed as a bland Boston Brahmin, Emerson is a seminal American writers, a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. This volume contains his Essays, First Series (1841), Second Series (1844), and a selection of poems including "The Problem," "The Snow-Storm," and "Concord Hymn." [via]
Essays and Poems By Ralph Waldo Emersonby Peter NorbergISBN 1593083548 (1-59308-354-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Essays And Poems By Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 159308076X (1-59308-076-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetryby Fluer AdcockISBN 0571136931 (0-571-13693-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Fernando Pessoa & Coby Fernando PessoaISBN 0802136273 (0-8021-3627-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Fully Empoweredby Pablo NerudaISBN 0374513511 (0-374-51351-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fully Empowered'Book summary:An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems.[via]
"The Sea"
A single entity, but no blood.
A single caress, death or a rose.
The sea comes in and puts our lives together
and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing
sin nights and days and men and living creatures.
Its essence-fire and cold; movement, movement.
Pablo Neruda himself regarded Fully Empowered -- which first appeared in Spanish in 1962 under the title Plenos Poderes -- as a particular favorite, in part because it came out of a most fruitful period in his life. These thirty-six poems vary from short, intense lyrics to characteristic Neruda odes to magnificent meditations on the office of poet, including poems that would undoubtedly claim a place in any selection of Neruda's greatest work. "The People" ("El Pueblo"), about the state of the working man in Chile's past and present, and the most celebrated of Neruda's later poems, completes this reflective, graceful collection.
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets: Authoritative Texts Criticismby George HerbertISBN 0393092542 (0-393-09254-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Great Firesby Jack GilbertISBN 0679747672 (0-679-74767-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Fires'Book summary:JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy.
The "far, stubborn, disastrous" course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey--not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert--could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems--and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments.
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The Great Fires : Poems, 1982-1992by Jack GilbertISBN 0679425764 (0-679-42576-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hybrids of Plants and of Ghostsby Jorie GrahamISBN 0691013357 (0-691-01335-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts'Book summary:"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: ". . . you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell
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Imitationsby Robert LowellISBN 0571097170 (0-571-09717-0)
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In the Clearingby Robert FrostISBN 0805006257 (0-8050-0625-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Lays of Beleriandby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0048232777 (0-04-823277-7)
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A treasure trove of lore for old and new friends of Middle-earth. Enter now, reader, and learn of the hero of the Lay of Leithian. Hear as well of the early years of Turin the Tall, as he journeys through darkness on his quest to find his father. Read of his rescue by Beleg the Brave, and of the dark destiny that haunts their friendship! Only the genius of Tolkien could create a fantasy more real than reality, a reality more fantastic than fantasy! [via]More editions of Lays of Beleriand:
A New Selected Poemsby Galway KinnellISBN 0618154450 (0-618-15445-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Outside Historyby Eavan BolandISBN 0393308227 (0-393-30822-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Oxford Book of Children's Verseby Peter OpieISBN 0785785809 (0-7857-8580-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selectedby Stanley KunitzISBN 0393316157 (0-393-31615-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selected'Book summary:Marking his 90th birthday, this Stanley Kunitz greatest hits package is a treasure. "The Wellfleet Whale" is one of the best nature poems of the 20th century, but Kunitz shines brightest when writing about the family. Notice especially, "The Portrait," which both describes a portrait found in an attic and is itself a portrait of Kunitz's childhood. The poem details a child finding a portrait of his dead father, a portrait that opens old wounds ("My mother never forgave my father / for killing himself") even as new wounds are being formed. This is moving, potent, passionate writing. [via]
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Poems 1968 to 1998by Paul MuldoonISBN 0374528446 (0-374-52844-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Poems, 1968-1998by Paul MuldoonISBN 0571207197 (0-571-20719-7)
Hardcover, Faber
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Poesiesby Arthur RimbaudISBN 2080705059 (2-08-070505-9)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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Poetry for Cats : The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verseby Henry Beard, Gary ZamchickISBN 0679435824 (0-679-43582-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Pooh's Libraryby A. A. MilneISBN 0771058969 (0-7710-5896-9)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pooh's Library'Book summary:Stop everything! If at least one copy of each of these classics is not in a prominent place on your bookshelf, your home and your progeny's childhood is incomplete. Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--blustery old Owl, bouncy Tigger, clever Christopher Robin, glum Eeyore, and the rest--have been a staple of children's literature for over 70 years in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. And Milne's immortal collections of children's verse, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, have soothed many a savage beast at bedtime with such incomparable delights as "If I Were King" and "Us Two." All four of these classics, complete with Ernest H. Shepard's original illustrations, are gathered here in a handsome boxed set. These hardcover editions will most certainly be a cherished legacy to be handed down for generations to come. After all, as Rabbit says solemnly one day, "Without Pooh, the adventure would be impossible." (Ages 3 to 103) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and Lecturesby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel PorteISBN 0940450151 (0-940450-15-1)
Hardcover, Library of America
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The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Philip PullmanISBN 0439224063 (0-439-22406-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Raven and Other Favorite Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486266850 (0-486-26685-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Rimbaudby Arthur RimbaudISBN 067943321X (0-679-43321-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Selected Cantos of Ezra Poundby Ezra PoundISBN 0811201600 (0-8112-0160-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound'Book summary:Among his fellow modernists, Ezra Pound inspired equal parts admiration and contempt. T.S. Eliot called him "il miglior fabbro" and dedicated "The Waste Land" to him after Pound had surgically stripped down the masterwork. Gertrude Stein, on the other hand, mocked his obsession with "Kulchur" and his pedagogical need to insert his versions of history, thought, economics, and morality into the Cantos. Pound was, she punched, "a village explainer, excellent if you are a village, but if you are not, not."
Turning to the poems affords illumination, though not resolution. The complete Cantos number 117, weigh in at more than 800 pages, and require several companion volumes of exegesis, filled as they are with private matters and forgotten, obscure souls and associations. Selected Cantos, 117 pages in all, contains what Pound called his "beauty spots": evocations of his heroes (from Chinese emperors to the Founding Fathers), cameos and critiques of his contemporaries (Yeats admiring the symbol of Notre Dame more than Notre Dame itself), and scabrous, unbeautiful visions of politicians, war profiteers, and "the perverts, the perverters of language" in hell. A signal irony is that the poet whose goal was to "make it new" is often freshest in his evocations and imitations of the past.
The greatest sequence is, however, "The Pisan Cantos". In 1945, following his pro-fascist Italian radio broadcasts, Pound was imprisoned by the American military. The art that emerged out of desperation, particularly Canto LXXXI, is a litany of nostalgia, pain, and delusion. Pound for once casts a sharp eye (usually reserved for others) on his personal and artistic failings: "Pull down thy vanity / How mean thy hates / Fostered in falsity ..." But even this section is troubling. In the end, the village explainer could explain little. [via]
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The Seven Agesby Louise GluckISBN 0060933496 (0-06-093349-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sourceby Mark DotyISBN 0060935405 (0-06-093540-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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Sweeney Astrayby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374518947 (0-374-51894-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Treasury of Winnie-The-Pooh/Deluxe Gift-Boxby A. A. MilneISBN 0440495806 (0-440-49580-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Uncollected Poemsby Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A. SnowISBN 086547513X (0-86547-513-X)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Viceby AiISBN 0393320189 (0-393-32018-9)
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What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politicsby Adrienne RichISBN 0393312461 (0-393-31246-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics'Book summary:The "impulse to enter, with other humans, through language, into the order and disorder of the world, is poetic at its root as surely as it is political at its root, " writes Adrienne Rich at the beginning of her powerful new prose work. What Is Found There is Rich's response to her impulse as a poet to know poetry fully, to plumb and scale and inhabit it; it is also, profoundly, Rich's attempt to bring poetry into the lives of many kinds of people - out of the academy, away from the literary magazines. In a voice that is generous, bold, and personal, Rich uses the poet's materials - journals and letters, dreams, memories, and close reading of the work of many poets - to reflect on poetry and politics, to consider how they enter and impinge on an American life, and what it means to be a citizen of a fragmented country, part of a people turned inward for safety. Rich acknowledges the cost of this turning: "We have rarely, if ever, known what it is to tremble with fear, to lament, to rage, to praise, to solemnize, to say We have done this, to our sorrow; to say Enough, to say We will, to say We will not. To lay claim to poetry." But she acknowledges hope as well. Speaking to poets, to readers of poetry, to all of us who imagine and desire a humane civil life, Rich lays claim to poetry as an instrument of change, and offers up its possibilities: "I see the life of North American poetry at the end of the century as a pulsing, racing convergence of tributaries - regional, ethnic, racial, social, sexual - that, rising from lost or long-blocked springs, intersect and infuse each other while reaching back to the strengths of their origins." [via]
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The Words Under the Wordsby Naomi Shihab NyeISBN 0933377290 (0-933377-29-0)
Softcover, Eighth Mountain Pr
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The Works of Rudyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1853264059 (1-85326-405-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The World of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525444521 (0-525-44452-1)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Writing Poemsby Robert Wallace, Michelle BoisseauISBN 0673990133 (0-673-99013-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Gedichte: Franzosisch Und Deutschby Arthur RimbaudISBN 3379003980 (3-379-00398-0)
Hardcover, Reclam-Verlag
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