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Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: N/A

Price: $0.50

Publisher: Dover Publications:

Seller ID: 9780486272849

ISBN: 0486272842

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
-- W. B. Yeats
Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets. Spanning over four centuries of literary creation in the service of amour, the works include a selection of Shake...
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A Slow Flash of Light:An Anthology of Poems about Poetry

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Teachers & Writers:

Seller ID: 9780915924561

ISBN: 0915924560

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Poetry Out Loud the Anthology (National Recitation Contest)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: National Endowment of the Arts:

Seller ID: 9781881505112

ISBN: 1881505111

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Friendship Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By: N/A

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Everyman's Library:

Seller ID: 9780679443704

ISBN: 0679443703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Poets Against the War

By: N/A

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press:

Seller ID: 9781560255390

ISBN: 1560255390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a read
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Little Songs of the Geisha: Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta

By: N/A

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing:

Seller ID: 9780804832502

ISBN: 0804832501

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The Garden's Poetry (Hebrew Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "Tel-Aviv, Israel", Miskal - Yedioth Ahronot: 2003

Seller ID: 1NX004

ISBN: 9655115747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: FINE / No DJ

As new -gift quality! . Poems with outstanding color photo illustrations on facing page. Unpaginated. Text in Hebrew.
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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

By: N/A

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Voice:

Seller ID: 9781401341459

ISBN: 1401341454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

In "She Walks in Beauty," Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, "She Walks in Beauty" draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, an...
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Het Koningsgraf: Honderd en een sonnetten

By: "Aafjes, Bertus"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Amsterda,", "Meulenhoff, J. M.": 1965

Seller ID: 20T011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new except tiny shelfwear to back corner. 117 pages. Text in Dutch. The poet was a devout Catholic and wrote poems about the resistance in WWII.
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Injuring Eternity

By: "Accardi, Millicent Borges"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: World Nouveau:

Seller ID: 9780982886540

ISBN: 0982886543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Injuring Eternity is a bold volume of poetry written by renowned National Endowments for the Arts poet Millicent Borges Accardi.
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This Turning Face

By: "Aidoo, John "

Price: $72.95

Publisher: "Accra, Ghana", Ghana Universities Press: 1991

Seller ID: 9-9H007

ISBN: 9964301871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Text, as new and unmarked. Exterior has faintest shelfwear, faint soil and a miniscule backward titlt to spine. Text in English. 98 pages. 8.5x6x.25"" (15.2x26x.7cm) Poetry collection by Ghanaian poet John Aidoo who won the Valvo Literary Prize for his previous collection. ""There is always the living warmth hidden in the ashes of our lives that will glow with the running dream"" "
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SELECTED POEMS.

By: "Aiken, Conrad."

Price: $2.00

Publisher: "Charles Scribner's Sons,":

Seller ID: B000OK2522

ISBN: B000OK2522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

American Sublime: Poems

By: "Alexander, Elizabeth"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Graywolf Press:

Seller ID: 9781555974329

ISBN: 1555974325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)

Too many people have seen too much
and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell
with their silent, patterned bodies,
their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . .
-from "Notes From"

In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the slave rebellion on the Amistad...
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Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

By: "Alexander, Elizabeth"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press:

Seller ID: 9781555975456

ISBN: 1555975453

Binding: staplebound

Condition: GOOD

On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Obama, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem "Praise Song for the Day" to an audience of millions, and now the poem can be read and savored for posterity. Printed on heavy, uncoated stock, with French flaps, and a silver foil stamp, this collectible chapbook is a cherished reminder of this monumental presidential event.

Also available in Spanish.
Canto de alabanza para el d ...
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A Quiet Morning at the Tollgate of Hell

By: "Alexander, Lowell S."

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lowell Stephen Alexander: 1977

Seller ID: 00T100

ISBN: 7648595

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

"Interior as new. Black cloth exterior with red gilt lettering shows slight dustiness and a small mark on the aback cover.. No DJ. Author signed and inscribed: ""Each moment you look out, in , aft, over: destroys an arrangement - constructs a miracle."" 121 pages."
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Navigable Waterways (Yale Series of Younger Poets No 20)

By: "Alexander, Pamela"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr:

Seller ID: 9780300033977

ISBN: 0300033974

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Day Before: Poems

By: "Allen, Dick"

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Sarabande Books:

Seller ID: 9781889330761

ISBN: 1889330760

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound. "No matter how tactile and specific he is, Allen always retains a sense of the greater world. . . . H]is pristine poems flow like timelines, drawing unexpected connections between happenings both major and minor, and observations both subtle and life changing."--"Booklist"

Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include "Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names," and ...
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Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

By: "Arp, Thomas R.,Johnson, Greg"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cengage Learning:

Seller ID: 9781428289703

ISBN: 1428289704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A best-selling introduction to poetry for more than fifty years, PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY succinctly covers the basics of poetry with detailed chapters on the elements of poetry, unique chapters on evaluating poetry, exemplary selections, and exercises and study questions that invite students into careful study. Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson have assiduously continued the Perrine tradition over several recent editions. Every chapter introduction in this compact and concise anthology bears the mark of Laurence Perrine's crisp, clean, and descriptive prose, and every...
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"Four Poets, Four Voices"

By: "Artuso, EMC, Thompson, Johnson"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "Needham, MA", Wild Goose Press: 1989

Seller ID: 82H004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for curled corner. Work of 4 members of the Wild Goose Poets: Tony Arturo's include a group of poems centered on history and the Civil War; EMC's poems have a ""humanistic, accessible focus"", Elizabeth Bertlett Thompson's have been read in libraries and cafes in the Greater Boston area; Robert K. Johnson, in addition to poetry, is the author of books on Neil Simon and Francis Ford Coppola. 58 pages, 9x6""."
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"April Galleons (Poets, Penguin)"

By: "Ashbery, John"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Puffin:

Seller ID: 9780140586039

ISBN: 0140586032

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD