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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Price: $1.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: September 1996

Seller ID: 55181

ISBN: 0486292746

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides a Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.
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Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize

By: N/A

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Turtle Point Press / Books & Co: April 2000

Seller ID: 439490

ISBN: 1885983158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels. Published in partnership with The Academy of American Poets.
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The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

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Price: $3.50

Publisher: Berkley: July 1962

Seller ID: 442594

ISBN: 0451627911

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry.

Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of:

- Wallace Stevens
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Carlos Williams
- Henry Wadsworth
- Ezra Pound
- Walt Whitman
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Stephen Crane
- e. e. cummings
- Robert Frost
- Hart Crane
- W. H. Auden
- And more...
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100 Best Love Poems of All Time

By: 100/Pockell, Leslie, ed.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: July 2012

Seller ID: 200944

ISBN: 0446690228

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Words of Love ...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction. Revisit the Classics: "He Is More Than a Hero" by Sappho Sonnet 18 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds") by William Shakespeare "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron Enjoy Old Favorites: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear "When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Housman Make Surprising Discoveries: "Your Catfish Friend" by Richa...
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I Am The Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans

By: Adoff, Arnold

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 390290

ISBN: 0020411200

Binding: Unknown

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Japanese Love Poems: Selections from the Manyoshu

By: Bates, Evan

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 355247

ISBN: 0486440419

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Known as the "Collection of Myriad Leaves," or the "Collection for a Myriad Ages," the Manyoshu is Japan's most significant early anthology of poetry. The poems date from the eighth century and earlier, and their simplicity and sincerity offer glimpses of a literary culture beginning to define itself.
The Manyoshu is virtually silent on the topics of war and the martial spirit; explorations of the many forms of love, however, appear throughout the collection's more than 4,000 poems. The poems selected for this volume comprise paeans to conjugal love, celebrations of intense filial piety and...
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Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

By: Bernstein, Joseph

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 419232

ISBN: 0806501960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here, for the first time, the work of three of Frances greatest poets has been published in a single volume: the sensual and passionate glow of Charles Baudelaire, the desperate intensity and challenge of Arthur Rimbaud, and the absinthe-tinted symbolist songs of Paul Verlaine.

To bring the essence of these three giants of modern poetry to the American public, Joseph M. Bernstein, a noted interpreter and translator of French literature, has selected the most representative of their writings and presented them along with a biographical and critical introduction.

"Not to know these three poe...
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Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold. (Riverside editions)

By: Buckler, William E

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 379800

ISBN: 0395140242

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Great Romatics

By: Byron/Shelley/Keats

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 412906

ISBN: 89045327

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Under 35: New Generation of American Poets

By: Christopher, Nicholas

Price: $4.00

Publisher: May 2017

Seller ID: 341599

ISBN: 0385260350

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Poetry in Six Dimensions: 20th Century Voices

By: Clark, Carol (Ed.)

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 399129

ISBN: 083882370X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Six American Poets

By: Conarroe, Joel

Price: $5.50

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 76211

ISBN: 0679745254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of Wallace Stevens; and from Robert Frost's deceptively homespun dramatic monologues to Langston Hughes's exuberant jazz-age lyrics, this anthology presents the best work of six makers of the modern American poetic tradition. Six American Poets includes 247 poems, among them such famous masterpieces as "I Hear...
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Premier Book of Major Poets

By: Dore, Anita

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 238184

ISBN: 0449911861

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This brilliant collection spans the years from the Middle Ages to the modern day to bring you a unique selection of the greatest poetry of all time. Arranged around major themes such as love and hate, war and peace, liberty and oppression, alienation and city life, The Premier Book of Major Poets is an invaluable reference work as well as a source of great pleasure.

Among the poets included are
-- Matthew Arnold
-- W. H. Auden
-- William Blake
-- Gwendolyn Brooks
-- Robert Browning
-- Geoffrey Chaucer
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridgee
-- e. e. cumming
-- Emily Dickinso...
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Art & Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry

By: Farrell, Kate (ed)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: June 2014

Seller ID: 276834

ISBN: 0821223283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A poetry anthology from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which presents glimpses of possiblities beyond everyday existence, from wishes and fantasies to dreams, prophecies and epiphanies. Each poem is presented alongside two works of art.
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Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day

By: Gendler, J. Ruth

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 408766

ISBN: 0060166975

Binding: Hardcover

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Unsettling America: an Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry

By: Gillan, Maria Mazziotti

Price: $6.50

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 217884

ISBN: 014023778X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American

This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture.

Unsettling America includes work by:

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Poetry

By: Gwynn, R.S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2011

Seller ID: 55015

ISBN: 0321087208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This poetry collection features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich. This edition features new 'Writing About Poetry' as well as more than 30 new selections, including poems by Florence Cassen Mayers, Sarah Cortez, and Timothy Murphy.
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Poetry: A Pocket Anthology

By: Gwynn, R.S.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 367767

ISBN: 0205101984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A perfect alternative to massive poetry anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of over 250 poems provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the study of poetry. Authors new to this collection, including Amy Gerstler (named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best poets in the nation), and award winners Rebecca Foust and Craig Arnold, provide ample evidence that poetry continues to flourish in today's world. Young writers Ernest Hilbert and Erica Dawson bring poetry into the 21st century and provide inspiration for aspiring young poets.
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After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

By: Hofmann, Michael

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 360698

ISBN: 0374524785

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses.

Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Med...
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Children of Albion: poetry of the 'Underground' in Britain; (The Penguin poets, D116)

By: Horovitz, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin: January 1969

Seller ID: 442542

ISBN: 0140421165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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