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9780807094440 | Beacon Pr, October 18, 2016, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Whether by way of ancient alphabets, modern art, or hidden chemistry, the poems in Karen Donovan’s unique second collection of poetry look within and without at our involuntary and intended expressions, signs, and gestures, which combine, in this unique poet’s work, to make us human...read more

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9780892554768 | Persea Books, October 18, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Whether by way of ancient alphabets, modern art, or hidden chemistry, the poems in Karen Donovan’s unique second collection of poetry look within and without at our involuntary and intended expressions, signs, and gestures, which combine, in this unique poet’s work, to make us human.

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Gathers more than four hundred poems about life, nature, love, eternity, and time

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9780785834519 | Chartwell Books, October 17, 2016, cover price $9.98
9780786283279, titled "Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 8, 2006), cover price $20.95
9780679602019 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers more than four hundred poems about life, nature, love, eternity, and time
9780394600253, titled "Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886.

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9780345472410 | Reprint edition (Bantam Classic & Loveswept, September 28, 2004), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Includes more than four hundred of Dickinson's poems, expressing her ideas on love, life, death, and nature, that were published after her own death in 1886.
9780679783350 | Modern Library, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Includes over 400 of Dickinson's poems, expressing her ideas on love, life, and nature, that were published after her death in 1886.
9780812523386, titled "Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson" | Tor Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Background information accompanies more than a hundred of Dickinson's brief poems

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9780785788577, titled "Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: Background information accompanies more than a hundred of Dickinson's brief poems

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By Christopher Merrill (contributor)

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9781609384654 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 15, 2016, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: A girl rides on an outgrown tricycle, biting a necklace of candy hearts. A woman sleeps with a bullet under her tongue. In these vivid and crushing poems, despair has a scent and it’s “half perfume, half something rotten.” Wild with loss and obsession, the poems of “Plucking the Stinger” throb like medication in the throat, a ballet interrupted by a couple breaking up, a false positive test, the terrible death of someone dear...read more

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9780996220682 | Saturnalia Books, October 15, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A girl rides on an outgrown tricycle, biting a necklace of candy hearts.

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9781940696386 | Wave Books, October 11, 2016, cover price $25.00

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9781935210894 | White Pine Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $16.00

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9781938584640 | Alice James Books, October 11, 2016, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directional teaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring—and often exploding—its most sacred memes...read more

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9780990322160 | Etruscan Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directional teaches us how to be free.

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9781594204791 | Penguin Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $24.95

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9780143127819 | Penguin USA, October 11, 2016, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: “His best work yet . . . astute, contemplative, and deeply moving.” ―Washington PostMark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that―as Philip Levine says―“looks away from nothing...read more

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9780393070231 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 6, 2015, cover price $25.95

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9780393353228 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 11, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “His best work yet .

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Product Description: Erratic Facts, Kay Ryan’s first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, offers sixty-plus new examples of her swift, lucid style. Ryan examines enormous subjects with compact poems in which sly rhymes and syncopation lend an off-foot musicality to unnerving wisdom...read more

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9780802124050 | Grove Pr, October 6, 2015, cover price $24.00

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9780802125545 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 11, 2016), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Erratic Facts, Kay Ryan’s first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, offers sixty-plus new examples of her swift, lucid style.

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Product Description: "Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy. With these rich and conversant prose poems, Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill return spoken language to sport—sometimes competitive, but often cooperative, exploratory, even humanely probative...read more

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9781935210887 | White Pine Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy.

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Product Description: "Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." —New York Times Book Review"Manning's genius—his truly staggering genius—is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly, idiosyncratically his own...read more

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9781556594748 | Copper Canyon Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: "Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim.

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Product Description: Through lyrical narrative, the poems in Mandatory Evacuation find radiance in everyday people and subjects by the simple act of noticing—of seeking that which matters most. Like returning home with new eyes after a devastating storm, these poems startle us to awareness, focusing on the passage of time, the beauty of small, fleeting moments, and the importance of paying attention...read more

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9781942683186 | Boa Editions, October 11, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Through lyrical narrative, the poems in Mandatory Evacuation find radiance in everyday people and subjects by the simple act of noticing—of seeking that which matters most.

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9781556595059 | Copper Canyon Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: Nature provides the lexicon of de Kooning Snow. The poems in de Kooning Snow negotiate many kinds of loss, metaphorically represented as kinds of snow. Classifications of snow, such as prisms, cups, columns, dendrites, and scrolls, mark places among the poems as when, in a weaving, the warp becomes visible...read more

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9780997452815 | Green Writers Pr, October 7, 2016, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Nature provides the lexicon of de Kooning Snow.

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Product Description: The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic “colonies” and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California and from asylums for the chronically insane (preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Germany and the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City)...read more
By Blunt Research Group (corporate author)

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9780819576781 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, October 7, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic “colonies” and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it.

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9781632430267 | Omnidawn Pub, October 4, 2016, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Squander occupies a place where “the mind’s upstairs windows [are] blown out”: a place of juxtapositional delight through sensory and conceptual dislocation. Poems based in word origins work as fables, and poems based in dialogue work within a select concordance from authors and artists...read more

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9781632430229 | Omnidawn Pub, October 4, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Squander occupies a place where “the mind’s upstairs windows [are] blown out”: a place of juxtapositional delight through sensory and conceptual dislocation.

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Product Description: Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall’s fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation. “What’s left?” she asks. The answer is past remembering, attuned to extinction...read more

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9781632430212 | Omnidawn Pub, October 4, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall’s fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation.

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9780374158118 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 4, 2016, cover price $23.00

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Product Description: The Field traces the I across a constellation of lyric psychodramas, where the voice navigates the daily traumas of embodiment and the force majeure of the out-of-body experience. At its center, this first collection from Robert Andrew Perez is a curation of the perils of love in an age of persistent angst, or the virtues of love from a persistently anxious mind...read more

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9781632430298 | Omnidawn Pub, October 4, 2016, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Field traces the I across a constellation of lyric psychodramas, where the voice navigates the daily traumas of embodiment and the force majeure of the out-of-body experience.

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