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Author: Jack Gilbert

Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncoll ...

Author: Dennis O'Keeffe

Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, ...

Author: Douglas Florian

The buzz is big for Douglas Florian's new poetry collection about the unBEElieveably unique lives of honeybees--and the vital role they play in our ecosystem.Come inside the honeycomb--a busy, buzzy, bee-filled home--and ...

Author: Tom Paulin

Tom Paulin's first collection since "The Road to Inver" in 2004, "Love's Bonfire" sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. At the bo ...

Author: Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was "An African Elegy" and the second was "Mental Fight". Both were highly regarded. Thus a t ...

Author: Baltasar Gracian

Written over 350 years ago, "The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence" is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxi ...

Author: Virgil

"The Fagles translation is destined to be the English "Aeneid" of the new century." -"The Wall Street Journal"
Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" have sold more than a millio ...

Author: Nikki Giovanni

A resonant, powerful collection from one of America's preeminent poets.

In "Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea," Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with ...

Author: Philip Dunn & Manuela M. Dunn

Rumi has influenced thousands of people across the centuries with his vision of our relationship with God as a path of love. Today, he is considered one of the most popular poets in the world. "The Illustrated Rumi" is a ...

Author: Coleman Barks

"Rumi's Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz" - named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by this bestselling poet, and is ...

Author: Paula Green

Love - that complicated, delicious, pleasurable, necessary feeling ties us to another human, to a mother, father, son, daughter, sibling, lover or friend. Love can also tie us to a place, an experience, an object. We lov ...

Author: Jennifer Fox

"Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my eyes."-Victor Hugo Pocket Posh(r) Classic Love Poems will absolutely warm your heart. This pocket-sized collection is a beautiful keepsake for yourself or for giving to tha ...

Author: Susan Howe

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.

An excerpt:

Sorting word-facts I only ...

Author: Lisa Congdon

Tender Buttons, the revolutionary work of poetic modernism by Gertrude Stein, first published in 1914, is a must-read for every lover of literature. This new edition of 'Objects'--the first part of Tender Buttons--loving ...

Author: Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a ci ...

Author: Suheil Bushrui

In this charming anthology, Suheil Bushrui, renowned literature professor, presents an unusually varied collection of the world's favourite love poetry from around the globe and down through the ages. The first compilati ...

Author: Prof Robert Demaria. & Duncan Wu

Poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age from a wide range of poets, including Milton, Dryden, Wilmot, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray, Collins and Goldsmith. For further detail ...

Author: Rosemary Ashton

Rosemary Ashton's acclaimed biography presents Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict - ...

Author: Zoe Brigley

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Moving from the violent to the erotic, "Conquest" describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the 19th-century England ...

Author: Dolores Stewart

"Presence of Mind" is a volume of poetry.