Category: Poetry

Art & Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bulfinch : November 1992

Seller ID: 69907

ISBN-13: 9780821219799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An elegant new poetry anthology taking nature as its inspiration.
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Art & Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown : September 1996

Seller ID: 78210

ISBN-13: 9780821223284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A poetry anthology from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which presents glimpses of possiblities beyond everyday existence, from wishes and fantasies to dreams, prophecies and epiphanies. Each poem is presented alongside two works of art.
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Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease (Literature & Medicine)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Kent State University Press : December 2008

Seller ID: 59434

ISBN-13: 9781606350072

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in people as young as fifty. For the many people now trying to cope with a loved one suffering from this tragic disease, this collection will provide solace and valuable insight for family members as well as for those in the medical community who work with anyone afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. Beyond Forgetting is a unique collection of poetry and short prose about Alzheimer's disease written by 100 contem...
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Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry

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Publisher: Beacon Pr : December 1996

Seller ID: 51300

ISBN-13: 9780807068359

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this rich and diverse anthology of more than 300 poems celebrates the sacredness of women's lives: the experiences that shape them, the relationships that sustain them, and the legacy that they build. In these poems, woman grow old, defy conventions and limits, fall in love and out again, wonder at their own bodies, and sing of the earth and sky. They pray, give birth, and make sense of suffering. As Sewell explains, "Those who write these verses do so out of exquisite courage...... They show us how to live."
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English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1998

Seller ID: 94218

ISBN-13: 9780486404257

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Coinciding with the reign of Queen Victoria, the Victorian era of English literature is generally dated from the late 1930s to the turn of the 20th century and includes a roster of poets whose works are of perennial interest to students as well as enduringly popular with poetry lovers and other readers. This outstanding, modestly priced anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the period, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Arthur Hugh Clough; Edward FitzGerald; Matthew Arnold; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Rossetti; Coventry Patmor...
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Good Poems for Hard Times

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Publisher: Viking Adult : September 2005

Seller ID: 85015

ISBN-13: 9780670034369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When Garrison Keillor published "Good Poems," he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their ?wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with? inspired thousands to buy what was for many their first book of poetry. Now, in "Good Poems for Hard Times," Keillor has pondered over the archives of his beloved "Writer's Almanac" radio show to select a batch of consoling, rousing, and truthful poems guaranteed to raise flagging spirits or to inspire those in need of a dose of wisdom or ...
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Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art

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Publisher: Abrams, 2001 : January 2001

Seller ID: 10438

ISBN-13: 9780810990876

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Mala of the Heart: 108 Sacred Poems

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New World Library : August 2015

Seller ID: 83537

ISBN-13: 9781608683789

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This collection of timeless poetry celebrates the eternal spiritual truth within each heart. Since ancient times, this hidden essence has been symbolized by the number 108. There are 108 earthly desires, 108 human feelings, 108 delusions, 108 beads in the traditional meditation mala, and 108 sacred poems in this anthology. Filled with crystalline wisdom from the great poets, sages, saints, and mystics, this selection of poems is a collective expression of universal heart-filled wisdom. The poems span a wide range of cultures and civilizations -- from India to Europe, Japan, and the Middle East...
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Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

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Publisher: NYRB Classics : January 2008

Seller ID: 95204

ISBN-13: 9781590172575

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham's slim but indispensable anthology of late T'ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the work of six other masters, including the "cold poet" Meng Chiao, who wrote ...
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Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle. . .And Other Modern Verse

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Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : January 1967

Seller ID: 51327

ISBN: B000JC42GC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

SRPR Spoon River Poetry Review Winter 2016

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Illinois State University, Dept of English : 2016

Seller ID: 69919

ISBN: 281DES1003414

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Best American Poetry 1998

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner : August 1998

Seller ID: 95027

ISBN-13: 9780684814506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The appearance of The Best American Poetry every September is an eagerly awaited rite of fall -- as evidenced by soaring sales and terrific reviews. The popularity of the series is ample proof that poetry is thriving (The Orlando Sentinel), and this year's volume will dazzle and delight, instruct and inspire. Under the guiding vision of master poet John Hollander -- one of America's most erudite literary minds -- The Best American Poetry 1998 spotlights the imaginative power and insight of our finest poets at the fin-de-si cle. Diverse in form and method, the poems display an unwavering nobil...
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The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 1987

Seller ID: 61957

ISBN-13: 9780192820754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This delightful anthology celebrates a rich and pleasing--if often underrated--tradition of English writing. The choice of poems reflects the great variety of light verse as well as the tastes and views of its distinguished editor. The selections range from genial satire to nonsense verse, from epigrams to limericks. More than 250 poems by some 80 authors provide a witty and consistently entertaining survey of English verse from Rochester and Ben Jonson to Anthony Powell and Philip Larkin. As Mr. Amis explains in a lively introduction, the principles on which he based this selection differ fro...
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The Norton Book of Light Verse

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : November 1986

Seller ID: 96348

ISBN-13: 9780393023664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of 400 poems arranged in eighteen thematic sections.
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Wayside Poems of the Early Eighteenth Century

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Publisher: Hong Kong University Press : 1964

Seller ID: 89283

ISBN: 281DES1004749

Binding: Hardcover

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Application of Shadows

By: A. Molotkov

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 40033

ISBN: 281DES1000769

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Beliefs and Blasphemies: A Collection of Poems

By: Adair, Virginia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House : July 1998

Seller ID: 72859

ISBN-13: 9780375500176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the bestselling, critically lauded author of Ants on the Melon, a new collection of wide-ranging and highly readable poems about religion.Beliefs and Blasphemies is the stunning successor to the triumphant debut by Virginia Hamilton Adair. (There are more than 34,000 copies of Ants on the Melon in print; Alice Munro said of the poems, "They never miss", and Sharon Olds called them "sensual, wise, amazing".) Greatly celebrated in the media, Adair is our best-known literary poet.The diverse poems in Beliefs and Blasphemies-which have as their subject religion in all its forms, from animism ...
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Old Shirts & New Skins signed by author (Native American series No 9)

By: Alexie, Sherman

Price: $16.00

Publisher: American Indian Studies : January 1993

Seller ID: 39089

ISBN-13: 9780935626360

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Collectible - Good

Illustrated by Elizabeth Woody, Oregon Native American Artist
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Going Somewhere Soon: Collected Stories & Drawings

By: Andreas, Brian

Price: $3.00

Publisher: StoryPeople : March 2004

Seller ID: 14470

ISBN-13: 9780964266025

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House : September 1994

Seller ID: 96342

ISBN-13: 9780679428954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including " On the Pulse of Morning" -in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.
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Flow Chart: A Poem

By: Ashbery, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf : May 1991

Seller ID: 89089

ISBN-13: 9780679402015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fireflies & Tired Eyes IV: Unapologetic Whispers

By: Ashton, Ellie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Independently published : August 2021

Seller ID: 83887

ISBN-13: 9798465968089

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Door: Poems

By: Atwood, Margaret,Larmore, Phoebe

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ecco : April 2009

Seller ID: 96244

ISBN-13: 9780547237701

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Atwoods first book of poetry since Morning in the Burned House in 1995, The Door contains 50 lucid y
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Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

By: Barks, Coleman

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperOne : January 2005

Seller ID: 95033

ISBN-13: 9780060750503

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. ′There are lovers content with longing. I′m not one of them.′ Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds - erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the ′wholeness′ one experiences with a true lover, to ...
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Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : May 1998

Seller ID: 95205

ISBN-13: 9780226039251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a masterly translation by Norman Shapiro, this selection of poems from "Les Fleurs du mal" demonstrates the magnificent range of Baudelaire's gift, from the exquisite quatrains to the formal challenges of his famous sonnets. The poems are presented in both French and English, complemented by the work of illustrator David Schorr. As much a pleasure to look at as it is to read, this volume invites newcomers and devotees alike to experience Baudelaire's genius anew. "A fine, formal translation of the best poems of France's founder of the symbolist movement." "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" "It's rar...
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The Western Edge: thirty-three Poets

By: BigEagle, Duane ed.; Bradd William ed.; Doubiago Sharon ed

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ten Mile River Press : January 1979

Seller ID: 87804

ISBN: B000GSZJB6

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Blake, William,Wordsworth, William,Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,Byron, Lord,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,Keats, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : November 1996

Seller ID: 94219

ISBN-13: 9780486292823

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature, death, and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest poets: William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel...
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Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Borzutzky, Daniel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press : February 2018

Seller ID: 40811

ISBN-13: 9780822965220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan's poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky's Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. But while the influ...
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Field Recordings (Made in Michigan Writers Series)

By: Brakefield, Russell

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wayne State University Press : March 2018

Seller ID: 40752

ISBN-13: 9780814344965

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The speakers of these poems navigate Michigan's folklore and folkways while exploring more personal connections to those landscapes and examining the timeless questions that occupy those songs and stories. With rich musicality and lyric precision, the poems in Field Recordings look squarely at what it means to be a son, a brother, an artist, a person.Inspired by the life and writings of famous ethnomusico...
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Beginning With Poems

By: Brower, Reuben Arthur

Price: $4.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : March 1966

Seller ID: 96334

ISBN-13: 9780393095098

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Selections by Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Yeats, Shakespeare, and other major poets from the sixteenth to the twentieth century are arranged in chronological order.
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Category: Poetry