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The Essential Ginsberg
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.' Bringing...
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden
Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: Andrew George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A reissue of Andrew George's bestselling translation, now revised and expanded with the addition of newly discovered material. Miraculously...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater...
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing: Poems
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Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also...
A Doll for Throwing: Poems
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Author: Mary Jo Bang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy We...
The Exchange
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Author: Sophie Cabot Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 75 "Black's voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and [her poetry] is steep, precipitous and dazzling." --Los Angeles Times Book Review...
Marvelous Things Overheard
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Author: Ange Mlinko Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A vibrant and eclectic collection from a stunningly mature young poet The world--the time has come to say it, though the...
Caribou
Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...
Selected Poems
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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work....
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made...
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
Hesiod and Theognis
Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
Selected Poems
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Beowulf
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
SMEAR: Poems for Girls
Author: Greta Bellamacina Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 SMEAR: Poems For Girls presents a curated, all-female lineup of poets from different countries, and addresses issues of trauma,...
Pillow Thoughts
Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into...
Child of the Moon
Author: Jessica Semaan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 "In her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront &moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear...
Love Looks Pretty on You
Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact...
The Poetry of Birds
Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....
American Melancholy: Poems
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one...
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays
Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...
How to Enjoy Poetry
Author: Frank Skinner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever,...
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Author: Elaine Scarry (Harvard University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare's beautiful young man Shakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and...
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A battle-hardened...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 R.H. Sin's second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World
Author: Louis Cannizzaro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Self-published poet and painter Louis Cannizzaro invites you into a universe of playful and haunting poetry with There Once Was a...
More Salt than Diamond: Poems
Author: Aline Mello Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Born in Brazil, Aline Mello immigrated to the United States in 1997. Using her experience as an undocumented woman during a...
Playing with Matches
Author: Michael Faudet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Playing with Matches is the ultimate collector's edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has...
Clybourne Park
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Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...
Rising from the Plains
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Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain,...
A Casual Penance
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Foulcher Format: Paperback...
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
Faust, Part I
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Cyrano de Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life...
The Poems
Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...
Arthurian Romances
Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
Selected Poems: Blake
Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
The Rivered Earth: From the author of A SUITABLE BOY
Author: Vikram Seth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth -...
masquerade
Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Divided into three parts and illustrated by Parker, masquerade grapples with topics such as the never-ending search for acceptance,...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Toxicon & Arachne
Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...