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An important new translation of the second section of Dante's great masterwork, created by the poetauthor of The River Sound and The Folding Cliffs, follows the narrator's odyssey, guided by the poet Virgil and inspired by his love for Beatrice, up the Mount of Purgatory toward Paradise. 15,000 first printing.

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9780375409219 | Knowledge Pub Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An important new translation of the second section of Dante's great masterwork, created by the poetauthor of The River Sound and The Folding Cliffs, follows the narrator's odyssey, guided by the poet Virgil and inspired by his love for Beatrice, up the Mount of Purgatory toward Paradise.
9780027076011, titled "Bubbles to Bugs: Everywhere, Everyday Math Concept Book" | Simon & Schuster, December 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | also contains Bubbles to Bugs: Everywhere, Everyday Math Concept Book, Purgatorio, Purgatorio, Purgatorio, Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio | About this edition: Celebrates the fun of mathematics in everyday life, from estimating the amount of bubble bath needed at bathtime, to counting sheep in order to fall asleep, to measuring the dimensions of backyard bugs

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9781490999616 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $7.95 | also contains Purgatorio, Purgatorio, Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio
9781448018086 | Reprint edition (Echo Library, August 1, 2011), cover price $7.99 | also contains Purgatorio, Purgatorio, Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio, The Purgatorio

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Product Description: In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer’s conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins...read more

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9780689112843 | Atheneum, July 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The American poet recalls the people and experiences of his childhood in western Pennsylvania and New Jersey

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9780805028713 | Owlet, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W.
9780689114243 | Macmillan Pub Co, November 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The American poet recalls the people and experiences of his childhood in western Pennsylvania and New Jersey

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Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language

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9780394570396 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language

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9780394758589 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with spring, trees, city life, the past, dreams, farms, childhood, rain, travel, insects, superstition, and language

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The poet explores the people and landscape of southwestern France, chronicling the complexities and contradictions of French peasants from the ground-up perspective of gardening. Reprint.

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9780679405269 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories pays tribute to the ancient land of the Lascaux caves in southwestern France, where aristocrats, shepherds, wine merchants, and innkeepers lead anachronistic lives

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9781593760335 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, January 30, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The poet explores the people and landscape of southwestern France, chronicling the complexities and contradictions of French peasants from the ground-up perspective of gardening.

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Poems deal with poets, naturalists, expatriates, the past, nature, survival, hope, and the seasons

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9780679418900 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with poets, naturalists, expatriates, the past, nature, survival, hope, and the seasons

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Brief essays examine identity, consciousness, and our interaction with the world

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9780805028706 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Brief essays examine identity, consciousness, and our interaction with the world

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Brief essays offer a surreal view of memory, sight, dreams, and daily life

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9780805028720 | Owlet, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Brief essays offer a surreal view of memory, sight, dreams, and daily life

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Poems deal with poets, naturalists, expatriates, the past, nature, survival, hope, and the seasons

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9780679752776 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with poets, naturalists, expatriates, the past, nature, survival, hope, and the seasons

A collection of poetry offering a portrait of the people and landscape of a little-known region of southwestern France

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9780679444770 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry offering a portrait of the people and landscape of a little-known region of southwestern France

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9780679766018 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry offering a portrait of the people and landscape of a little-known region of southwestern France

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A one-volume compendium by one of the premier poets of the twentieth century and a winner of the Dorothea Tanning Prize includes The Compass Flower, Feathers from the Hill, and Opening the Hand. Original. IP. (view table of contents)

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9781556591198 | Copper Canyon Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A one-volume compendium by one of the premier poets of the twentieth century and a winner of the Dorothea Tanning Prize includes The Compass Flower, Feathers from the Hill, and Opening the Hand.

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9781570031540 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $39.95

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The Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizewinning poet offers a history in verse of nineteenthcentury Hawaii, following the struggles of one small family, possible victims of leprosy, to remain independent. Reprint.

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9780375401480, titled "Folding Cliffs: A Narrative" | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The poet offers a history in verse of nineteenth-century Hawaii, following the struggles of one small family, possible victims of leprosy, to remain independent

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9780375701511 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The poet offers a history in verse of nineteenth-century Hawaii, following the struggles of one small family, possible victims of leprosy, to remain independent

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A poet known for his lyrics adds three long narrative poems to his collection--'Lament for the Makers,' a tribute to fellow poets; 'Testimony,' an autobiographical work; and 'Suite in the Key of Forgetting,' about memories and memory. Reprint.

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9780375404863 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1999), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A poet known for his lyrics adds three long narrative poems to his collection--'Lament for the Makers,' a tribute to fellow poets; 'Testimony,' an autobiographical work; and 'Suite in the Key of Forgetting,' about memories and memory

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9780375704352 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A poet known for his lyrics adds three long narrative poems to his collection--'Lament for the Makers,' a tribute to fellow poets; 'Testimony,' an autobiographical work; and 'Suite in the Key of Forgetting,' about memories and memory.

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9781611471748 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $65.00
9780838637999 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $29.50

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Now in paperback, a startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world. Reprint.

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9780375412769 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A new collection of poems by celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.

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9780375709647 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Now in paperback, a startling new collection of poems by the celebrated poet evokes lost youth, memory, and the beauty of the natural world.

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A collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet traces the origins of the twelfth-century Provental troubadors, from the work of Bernart de Ventadorn, to the ruins of the chGteau of Ventador, to the careworn farmhouse belonging to the author himself.

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9780792265382 | Natl Geographic Society, June 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet traces the origins of the twelfth-century Provental troubadors, from the work of Bernart de Ventadorn, to the ruins of the chGteau of Ventador, to the careworn farmhouse belonging to the author himself.

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The Green Knight, a mysterious and powerful creature, offers a fateful and deadly challenge that tests the honor and courage of Gawain, King Arthur's youngest knight.
By W. S. Merwin (editor)

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9780375414763 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2002), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The Green Knight, a mysterious and powerful creature, offers a fateful and deadly challenge that tests the honor and courage of Gawain, King Arthur's youngest knight.

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The Green Knight, a mysterious and powerful creature, offers a fateful and deadly challenge that tests the honor and courage of Gawain, King Arthur's youngest knight.
By W. S. Merwin (editor)

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9780375709920 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Green Knight, a mysterious and powerful creature, offers a fateful and deadly challenge that tests the honor and courage of Gawain, King Arthur's youngest knight.

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9781435290129 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.00

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9781556592843 | Copper Canyon Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $22.00

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9781556593109 | Reprint edition (Copper Canyon Pr, October 1, 2009), cover price $16.00 | also contains Shadow of Sirius

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9781556593109, titled "The Shadow of Sirius" | Reprint edition (Copper Canyon Pr, October 1, 2009), cover price $16.00 | also contains The Shadow of Sirius

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