By Ruth Roach Pierson - $15.00 - add to cart

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Several themes combine in Aide-mémoire, themes originating in the dangers and delights of growing older. On the one hand is the growing unreliability of memory, on the other the continuing delight ...

By Alessandro Porco - $16.95 - add to cart

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Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A deeply felt and original collection, this work unders...

By Billy Collins - $28.00 - add to cart

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A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its ...

By Edita Page (editor) - $25.00 - add to cart

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Tied together only by the touch of the Baltic Sea, the poems in this anthology feature the invigorating voices and visions of Northern Europe. The Baltic Quintet gives the reader a taste of the poe...

By David Mcfadden - $18.95 - add to cart

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A tour de force of compression, these brief poems (as full and satisfying as his longer narrative works) display McFadden's trademark wit, mischief, curiosity and quirky wisdom. He explores politi...

By Hermenegild Chiasson (translation By Jo-anne Elder) - $19.95 - add to cart

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For Herménégilde Chiasson, every work of art is both a cry and a prayer. Beatitudes reflects this perspective by connecting everyday events -- people losing their keys or their cellphone signals --...

By Sue Sinclair - $18.00 - add to cart

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Sue Sinclair is the director inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke: she possesses intense lyrical vision, steeped in wonder at the existence of the world, and a kind of grief...

By Marvin Francis - $15.95 - add to cart

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Both a politically engaged achievement and a highly personal one, Bush Camp is a fitting addition to the unmistakeable idiom of Marvin Francis. A dynamic poetry collection of dry wit and powerfu...

By Michael Ondaatje - $17.95 - add to cart

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Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a highly po...

By Dennis Cooley - $15.95 - add to cart

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correction line is a powerful and evocative poem sequence that reconstructs memory through ancestral connections, and personal history. The poetry is as fundamental as the southern prairie landscap...

By Barbara Klar - $18.00 - add to cart

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A poetic pilgrimage into the luminous presence of nature. In focusing on the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan, this series of linked meditative poems takes the reader to a unique landsca...

By Kevin Young - $32.00 - add to cart

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Las Vegas, Nashville, despair, the Midwest, “Bar-B-Q Heaven” and his family’s Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in his powerful, heartfelt sixth book of poetry. ...

By Genni Gunn - $14.95 - add to cart

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In Faceless , Genni Gunn explores "the impulse for the edge," a magnetic field between the gloss of the topside world and the grit of the world beneath. Both these landscapes are fascinating and tr...

By Kevin Young - $20.00 - add to cart

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The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a ...

By Robert Pinsky - $15.50 - add to cart

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An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky’s first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal sca...