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9780374286491 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 5, 2016, cover price $28.00
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9780374536817, titled "War Music: An Account of Homerâs Iliad" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 10, 2017, cover price $16.00 | also contains War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad
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9780374272630 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 12, 2016, cover price $16.00
Product Description: Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings...read more
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9780691159812 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 28, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.
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9781590178669 | New York Review of Books, June 21, 2016, cover price $14.00
Product Description: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryOnly for you do the two mute girls on stagewho falter at first, erratic as staticin the synaptic gap between each image,imperceptibly jolt to life-grinning, tap-dancing, morphing into footage,their arms like immaculate pistons, their legs like knives ...read more
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9780865478299 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 12, 2015, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryOnly for you do the two mute girls on stagewho falter at first, erratic as staticin the synaptic gap between each image,imperceptibly jolt to life-grinning, tap-dancing, morphing into footage,their arms like immaculate pistons, their legs like knives .
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9780374104191 | Bilingual edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 3, 2016), cover price $23.00
Product Description: Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matterâas we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention...read more
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9780374227128 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 13, 2015, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize–winning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matter―as we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention.
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9780374536688 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 12, 2016), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matterâas we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention.
Product Description: J. H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful...read more
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9781590179796 | Revised edition (New York Review of Books, April 19, 2016), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: J.
Product Description: These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity...read more
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9781137452924 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 20, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century.
Product Description: My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat.Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem-sequence of electrifying power...read more
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9781632862051 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, March 10, 2015, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat.
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9781632862075 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, March 10, 2015, cover price $15.00
Product Description: A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive bestTwo men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . ." A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt...read more
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9780374220556 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 5, 2015, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive bestTwo men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery .
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9780374535506 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 5, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery .
9780380797219, titled "Rock 'N' Roll Baby Names" | Avon Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | also contains Rock ''N'' Roll Baby Names | About this edition: A one-of-a-kind, lighthearted compendium of names related to the greatest hits and most famous musicians of the world of rock-and-roll, from sweet Caroline to dear Prudence to Johnny-be-good, includes interesting musical trivia.
9780380796250, titled "Final Orbit" | Avon Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | also contains Final Orbit | About this edition: Space program veteran Santy Santich suspects a NASA cover-up when an astronaut dies horribly on a routine space shuttle flight, but his place on the next shuttle is in jeopardy, and the countdown to lifeoff with a killer has already begun
Product Description: Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matterâas we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention...read more
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9780571316045 | Gardners Books, January 15, 2015, cover price $25.40 | About this edition: Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poetSmuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matterâas we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention.
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9780346122871, titled "Trouble Book" | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1977, cover price $5.75 | also contains Trouble Book
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9780268011208 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, September 15, 2014, cover price $34.00
Product Description: A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully brutal, ancient and immediate, and capable of instilling menace and awe into our everyday landscape...read more
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9780374255343 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 7, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry.
9781447231554 | Pan Macmillan, September 11, 2014, cover price $32.25 | About this edition: Sailing the Forest, Robin Robertson's Selected Poems, is the definitive guide to one of the most important poetic voices to have emerged from the UK in the last twenty-five years.
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9780374535728 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 6, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry.
Product Description: This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles. Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also a highly accomplished poet...read more
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9780375712333 | Everymans Library, February 25, 2014, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles.
Product Description: âCrashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness.â âT. S. EliotThis is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticismâthe traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms...read more
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9780816680689 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 21, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: âCrashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness.
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9780380797219, titled "Rock 'N' Roll Baby Names" | Avon Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | also contains Bluestone: New and Selected Poems | About this edition: A one-of-a-kind, lighthearted compendium of names related to the greatest hits and most famous musicians of the world of rock-and-roll, from sweet Caroline to dear Prudence to Johnny-be-good, includes interesting musical trivia.
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9780380796250 | Avon Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | also contains Bluestone: New and Selected Poems | About this edition: Space program veteran Santy Santich suspects a NASA cover-up when an astronaut dies horribly on a routine space shuttle flight, but his place on the next shuttle is in jeopardy, and the countdown to lifeoff with a killer has already begun
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9780346122871 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1977, cover price $5.75 | also contains One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
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