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Treasury of Chinese Love Poems by Xiaolong Qiu (Hardcover - Bilingual)
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The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson by May Swenson (Paperback - Reprint)
Brings together ninety-seven poems by the respected twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts. Reprint.
The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire (Paperback - Boa Editions)
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again by Roger Housden (Hardcover - Harmony Books)
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Harpercollins Childrens Books)
"Silverstein's book . . . deserves to be placed along-side Mother Goose. Popular with adults and youngsters alike, the poetry encompasses satires, limericks, ballads, questions, tall stories, ridiculous situations, and a deft way with language."--"Language Arts." An ALA Notable Children's Book; "School Library Journal" Best Books of 1981. Full-color illustrations.
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Harpercollins Childrens Books)
Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold. So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind.
Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen (Paperback - Graywolf Pr)
Love Poems by Anne Sexton (Paperback - Mariner Books)
Twenty-five poems celebrating the sensual frontiers of Sexton's time.
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (Paperback - Back Bay Books)
Here is the real Emily Dickinson -- the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade editions of the poet's work. While it is today universally acknowledged that Dickinson was a poet of the highest order, the startling originality of her poems doomed her work to obscurity in her own lifetime. Early posthumous publication efforts -- including the 1924 Complete Poems edited by the poet's niece and published by Little, Brown -- did not fully and fairly represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, or the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the publication of Harvard University Press's 1955 The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, comprising three hardcover volumes edited by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able to understand and appreciate Dickinson's entire oeuvre. These books are also the fruit of Thomas H. Johnson's prodigious scholarship. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson distills the three-volume hardcover Complete, bringing together in a single volume all 1,775 poems that Dickinson wrote. Final Harvest is the only truly comprehensive selection of Dickinson's verse: 576 poems that trace the arc of her development as a writer. A feast for all who love poetry, these are the standard texts against which all other Dickinson collections must be measured.
Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind by Kenneth Rexroth (Paperback - New Directions)
Isn't It Romantic by Brett Fletcher Lauer (Paperback - Verse Pr)
The Tale of Kieu/a Bilingual Edition of Truyen Kieu by Nguyen Du (Paperback - Reprint)
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Huynh's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.
The Complete English Poems by John Donne (Hardcover - Reissue)
Introduction by C. A. Patrides
The Illuminated Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Hardcover - Broadway Books)
In a magnificent meeting of words and visuals, of ancient tradition and modern interpretation, this beautiful book assembles in one volume the timeless work of 13th-century Sufi poet and philosopher Jelaluddin Rumi. Extraordinary, contemporary, full-color collages capture the richness of Rumi's teachings.
Death Before Dying by Jamal J. Elias (Paperback - Univ of California Pr)
These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God", remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today -- even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry by heart. Jamal J. Elias's translation of Bahu's famous work, the Abyat, is the first to appear in English outside South Asia. It offers a rare glimpse into the Sufi mystical tradition and the religious lives of rural Muslims during the period of the Mughal Empire. With its emphasis on unrestricted devotion to God, and its skepticism toward the legalistic, institutionalized elements of organized religion, Bahu's poetry embodies many characteristic elements of the mystical tradition. Translations of the poems are presented alongside the Punjabi script and offer a masterful exploration of a significant but largely neglected South Asian literary tradition. Death Before Dying also illustrates the great diversity of Islamic cultural voices throughout the world. "With their earthy charm and engaging simplicity, these Punjabi verses convey the immediacy of the spiritual quest as expressed in the popular idiom and imagery of the country-side. A fine choice for courses in Islamic religious studies and spirituality". -- John Renard, author of Seven Doors to Islam
My People by Langston Hughes (Reinforced Hardcover - Ginee Seo Books)
The inspirational words of this celebrated writer's poem are brought to life through a collection of brilliant sepia-colored photographs throughout capturing the diverse features, hearts, and souls of its subjects.
The Poets' Corner by John Lithgow (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)
Hand-selected by a Tony Award-winning actor, a volume of family-appropriate classic works of poetry is accompanied by a CD recording of poetry readings by Lithgow as well as such actors as Morgan Freeman, Glenn Close, and Gary Sinise.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (Paperback - Vintage Books)
This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.
Sex at Noon Taxes by Sally Van Doren (Paperback - Louisiana State Univ Pr)
Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in SEX AT NOON TAXES mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a struggle between the mind and the body...A preoccupation with the visual, artists, and artwork seeps through many of these imagistic minitexts. These poems look for release in descriptions of physical acts and in intricate manipulations of language. Sometimes they find it...Gender identification blurs as the poems probe theories of articulation and investigate the geographies of language and love. Through wordplay and word work, these poems travel a tightly crafted sphere of emotions and ideas.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Paperback - Signet Classic)
Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including "Song of Myself," "Starting from Paumanok," "Children of Adam," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." Reissue.
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky (Hardcover - Random House Childrens B
A lush treasury of 19 fairy tales that generations of children have grown up on.
Poems of Love and War by A. K. Ramanujan (Paperback - Columbia Univ Pr)
The Poetry Of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda (Paperback - Reprint)
A single-volume collection of works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet features translations of almost six hundred key pieces and features specially commissioned new translations. Reprint.
the Dream of the Poem by Peter Cole (Paperback - Princeton Univ Pr)
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats (Paperback - Revised; Subsequent)
The authorized canon of one of the world's most beloved poets, this is a collection of every poem William Butler Yeats approved for publication during his lifetime.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
Brought together for the first time, here are all of Maya Angelou's published poems--including "On the Pulse of Morning", her inaugural poem--in a handsome collectible hardcover edition. The complete texts of Angelou's previous volumes of poetry have been reset and redesigned for this edition.
The Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe (Paperback - Penguin Classics)
Reversing the Spell by Eleanor Wilner (Paperback - Copper Canyon Pr)
For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous editions of the individual parts contained errors which the poet intended to correct in a definitive edition. Now, working from McGrath's archival notes, his longtime friend and colleague Dale Jacobson has prepared an authoritative text of the whole poem, making available for the first time in a single volume the greatest epic of our time. Both modern and Homeric, McGrath's expansive, inclusive, semi-autobiographical Letter explores American history, politics, and mythology, guided by the Blue Star Kachina of Hopi mythology as it moves toward the poem's conclusion in the American heartland on Christmas Eve, crisscrossing the landscape in what Library Journal has called "a tremendous odyssey of sense and spirit".
Wicked Poems by Roger McGough (Hardcover - Bloomsbury USA)
A collection of over 120 poems about wickedness, evil, and mischief by such authors as William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Shel Silverstein, and Rudyard Kipling.
American Poetry by Gerald Costanzo (Paperback - Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr)