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Product Description: Loved for his decidedly American voice, for his painterly rendering of modern urban settings, and for his ability to re-imagine a living language shaped by the philosophy of “no ideas but in things,” William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) left an indelible mark on modern poetry...read more
By Thom Tammaro (editor)

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9781587299865 | Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Loved for his decidedly American voice, for his painterly rendering of modern urban settings, and for his ability to re-imagine a living language shaped by the philosophy of “no ideas but in things,” William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) left an indelible mark on modern poetry.

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Product Description: The poetry of Wallace Stevens has inspired generations of poets of every school. Here, for the first time, is assembled an astonishing variety of poems, by a full range of poets, inspired by Stevens’s life and work. In its own way, each poem exhibits the torque and feel of his poetry, yet each also is deeply personal and conveys how meaningful Stevens was and remains for poets and poetry...read more
By James Finnegan (editor)

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9781587298110 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The poetry of Wallace Stevens has inspired generations of poets of every school.

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Product Description: The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg reveals in fascinating detail the man and the artist through the eyes of a Ginsberg intimate—a fellow poet and admirer, a man who shares the ecumenical outlook and resolute social conscience of one our century's most popular and controversial literary figures...read more

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9781590202364 | Overlook Pr, July 28, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg reveals in fascinating detail the man and the artist through the eyes of a Ginsberg intimate—a fellow poet and admirer, a man who shares the ecumenical outlook and resolute social conscience of one our century's most popular and controversial literary figures.

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Product Description: Patrick Delany's reputation as a scholar and tutor at Trinity College, Dublin, and an influential preacher in his time, apologist for Church of Ireland causes, and foremost defender of Jonathan Swift against the criticisms and slanders of Lord Orrery is well documented...read more

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9780874139389 | Univ of Delaware Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Patrick Delany's reputation as a scholar and tutor at Trinity College, Dublin, and an influential preacher in his time, apologist for Church of Ireland causes, and foremost defender of Jonathan Swift against the criticisms and slanders of Lord Orrery is well documented.

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One hundred poets react to specific Robert Frost poems, reinvent others, and remember aspects of the poet, paying tribute to his place in American poetry and history.
By Sheila Coghill (editor), Jay Parini (foreword by) and Thom Tammaro (editor)

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9780877459620 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: One hundred poets react to specific Robert Frost poems, reinvent others, and remember aspects of the poet, paying tribute to his place in American poetry and history.

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9780877459637 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: One hundred poets react to specific Robert Frost poems, reinvent others, and remember aspects of the poet, paying tribute to his place in American poetry and history.

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By Guy Davenport (contributor), Peter Glassgold (editor) and James Laughlin

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9780811216173 | New Directions, May 30, 2005, cover price $35.00

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By Russell Banks (foreword by), Kurt Brown (editor), Meg Kearney (editor), Donna Reis (editor) and Estha Weiner (editor)

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9781931968232 | Univ of Akron Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $22.95

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9781931968249 | Univ of Akron Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $16.95

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9780811215985 | New Directions, March 1, 2005, cover price $19.95

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9781892471314 | Bright Hill Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $8.00

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Product Description: On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift’s most complex and controversial poems. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis and interpretation of what, on a surface level, has to be called a mock ars poetica, but which, on a deeper level, is a highly allusive political satire...read more

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9783631532652 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 30, 2004, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift’s most complex and controversial poems.

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Product Description: “Using the perfect metaphor and the finely crafted line, Bob brings us the pathos of the old English ballads, come to us through Appalachia, a tale of passion, betrayal, loyalty, jealousy, faithfulness, guilt , full of all we know of human faults and virtues...read more

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9780963518507 | Higganum Hill Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: “Using the perfect metaphor and the finely crafted line, Bob brings us the pathos of the old English ballads, come to us through Appalachia, a tale of passion, betrayal, loyalty, jealousy, faithfulness, guilt , full of all we know of human faults and virtues.

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Product Description: Poets to come! Arouse! For you must justify me! Answering the challenge that Whitman issued nearly 150 years ago, this book has gathered together 100 poems by 100 poets, bearing witness to Whitman's enormous influence on American and global literature.
By Sheila Coghill (editor) and Thom Tammaro (editor)

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9780877458531 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Poets to come!

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9780877458548 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Poets to come!

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Product Description: The passionate ill-fated relationship and literary rivalry between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is re-imagined in a series of thought-provoking linked poems. Hurdle recreates both their lives and the ways in which those lives have been constructed and deconstructed by contemporary commentators...read more

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9781553800101 | Ronsdale Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The passionate ill-fated relationship and literary rivalry between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is re-imagined in a series of thought-provoking linked poems.

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An unsparing portrait of the man who led the 'Beat Generation' writers across four decades focuses on his role as a leader of the literary and cultural movement that shaped the American consciousness and is written in the form of an epic poem.

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9781585670376 | Overlook Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An unsparing portrait of the man who led the 'Beat Generation' writers across four decades focuses on his role as a leader of the literary and cultural movement that shaped the American consciousness and is written in the form of an epic poem.

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Book by Vrest Orton (view table of contents)

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9780914960348 | 2 sub edition (Tuttle Pub, February 1, 1982), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Book by Vrest Orton

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9780911469189 | Alan C Hood & Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $10.00

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Product Description: Powerful, exquisite, and intricately crafted, this poetic memoir spans and reconfigures 30 years of an award-winning writer’s life. Ten years after beginning the project and more than 40 years after first recording information about the people, places, and events upon which the poems are based, this thoroughly unique project has taken on a life of its own, bent and reshaped by experience, time, and revision...read more

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9781550224085 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Powerful, exquisite, and intricately crafted, this poetic memoir spans and reconfigures 30 years of an award-winning writer’s life.

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Product Description: Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath...read more

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9781568955827 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power.
9780374112967 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems addressed to Hughes' late wife, poetess Sylvia Plath, dealing with the psychological breakdown that led to some of her greatest poems and her untimely death

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A collection of poetry addressed to Hughes's late wife, poet Sylvia Plath, reexamines the psychological breakdown that led to both some of her greatest poems and to her untimely death. Reprint.

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9780374525811 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 30, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems addressed to Hughes' late wife, poetess Sylvia Plath, dealing with the psychological breakdown that led to some of her greatest poems and her untimely death

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Product Description: Poetry. ELEGY FOR BOB KAUFMAN is poetry of elegance and feeling, a beautiful tribute to a "gone world." It speaks to the author's youthful memories of a great poet, Bob Kaufman--an enormously complex and difficult man. Cherkovski brings to life San Francisco's bohemian community in the late fifties and early sixties...read more

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9780941543132 | Sun Dog Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poetry.
9780941543149 | Signed edition (Sun Dog Pr, November 1, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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