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Product Description: Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafés of Berlin for appearing in costume as a Persian girl or as an Egyptian boy...read more
By Brooks Haxton (trans)

Hardcover:

9780815634201 | Bilingual edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, November 16, 2015), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family.

Paperback:

9780815610564 | Bilingual edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, November 16, 2015), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of odds—the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river...read more

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9781619023253 | Counterpoint, May 13, 2014, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of odds—the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river.
9780393042634, titled "The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders' Story of Brigade 2506" | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1974, cover price $10.50 | also contains The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders'' Story of Brigade 2506 | About this edition: The complete story of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the people directly and indirectly involved in it

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9781619025448 | Counterpoint, April 28, 2015, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of odds—the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

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9780559526466 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $30.99 | also contains Selected Poems | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9780559526428 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $18.99 | also contains Selected Poems | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780142437032 | Penguin Classics, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of eighty poems in both English and French, and also includes background information on Hugo's life and works and notes about the historical context of the poems.

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Product Description: Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings...read more

Hardcover:

9780307268457 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 3, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world.

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The poet-author of Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero brings the biblical language of the Book of Psalms into the modern-day world in a collection that includes 'Dark,' a response to a verse from Psalm 74, and 'The Freedom of the Bodysurfer,' inspired by a passage from Psalm 36. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781400040735 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The poet-author of Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero brings the biblical language of the Book of Psalms into the modern-day world in a collection that includes 'Dark,' a response to a verse from Psalm 74, and 'The Freedom of the Bodysurfer,' inspired by a passage from Psalm 36.

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9780375710162 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 14, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The poet-author of Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero brings the biblical language of the Book of Psalms into the modern-day world in a collection that includes 'Dark,' a response to a verse from Psalm 74, and 'The Freedom of the Bodysurfer,' inspired by a passage from Psalm 36.

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The wisdom poetry of the ancient Greek poet Heraclitus is collected into a single bilingual volume that covers everything from the nature of matter to human psychology. Reprint.
By Brooks Haxton (trans), Heraclitus and James Hillman (foreword by)

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9780142437650 | Bilingual edition (Penguin Classics, November 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The wisdom poetry of the ancient Greek poet Heraclitus is collected into a single bilingual volume that covers everything from the nature of matter to human psychology.

The critically acclaimed poet and translator confronts nature, love, sex, and friendship in this startling new collection of poems. By the author of The Sun at Night. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780375412486 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems that confront nature, love, sex, and friendship.

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9780375709562 | 1 reprint edition (Random House Inc, February 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems that confront nature, love, sex, and friendship.

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The wisdom poetry of the ancient Greek poet Heraclitus is collected into a single volume that covers everything from the nature of matter to human psychology. (view table of contents)
By Brooks Haxton (trans), Heraclitus and James Hillman (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780670891955 | Penguin USA, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects the wisdom poetry of the ancient Greek poet Heraclitus, covering everything from the nature of matter to human psychology.

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A renowned contemporary poet presents lively, freespirited translations of great poetry from the ancient Greeks, in an anthology that features thirtyeight worksincluding classical lyrics and epigramsby poets ranging from Sappho to Theokritos. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Brooks Haxton (trans)

Hardcover:

9780670887286 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents translations of great poetry from the ancient Greeks, in an anthology that features thirty-eight works--including classical lyrics and epigrams--by poets ranging from Sappho to Theokritos

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Presents a new, intensely personal anthology of poetry that explores the rich complexities of language and the tender and powerful moments of everyday life. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780679441793 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents a new, intensely personal anthology of poetry that explores the rich complexities of language and the tender and powerful moments of everyday life.

Paperback:

9780679765967 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Presents a new, intensely personal anthology of poetry that explores the rich complexities of language and the tender and powerful moments of everyday life.

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Product Description: Book by Haxton, Brooks

Paperback:

9780934257251 | Story Line Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Book by Haxton, Brooks

Poems deal with birth, childhood, illness, love, family, faith and death

Hardcover:

9780394577883 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with birth, childhood, illness, love, family, faith and death

Paperback:

9780679722847 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with birth, childhood, illness, love, family, faith and death

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Poems deal with animals, justice, school, childhood, anger, racial intolerance, war, death, memory, fear, music, and nature

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9780394742953 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with animals, justice, school, childhood, anger, racial intolerance, war, death, memory, fear, music, and nature

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