830 Poetry Books Featured
In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage Classics | Art - Drawing; Poetry
978-0-09-953042-8 (0-09-953042-2)
November 23, 2010 | $25.95
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage Classics | Art - Drawing; Poetry
978-0-09-953042-8 (0-09-953042-2)
November 23, 2010 | $25.95
Pam Ayres The Works: The Classic Collection
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | BBC Books | Biography & Autobiography; Poetry
978-1-84607-793-7 (1-84607-793-1)
November 23, 2010 | $21.95
The Works contains 120 of Pam’s best-known poems from the seventies and eighties, including ‘The Battery Hen,’ ‘Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In,’ ‘Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire,’ ‘Mother,’ and ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth.’
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | BBC Books | Biography & Autobiography; Poetry
978-1-84607-793-7 (1-84607-793-1)
November 23, 2010 | $21.95
The Works contains 120 of Pam’s best-known poems from the seventies and eighties, including ‘The Battery Hen,’ ‘Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In,’ ‘Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire,’ ‘Mother,’ and ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth.’
Beowulf
eBook | 464 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections - Medieval
978-0-307-57439-8 (0-307-57439-3)
November 17, 2010 | $22.95
The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh...
eBook | 464 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections - Medieval
978-0-307-57439-8 (0-307-57439-3)
November 17, 2010 | $22.95
The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh...
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Collected Novels and Plays
eBook | 688 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55521-2 (0-307-55521-6)
November 17, 2010 | $35.00
Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
eBook | 688 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55521-2 (0-307-55521-6)
November 17, 2010 | $35.00
Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
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The Darkness and the Light
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-48359-1 (0-307-48359-2)
November 17, 2010 | $33.00
The poetry of Anthony Hecht has been praised by Harold Bloom and Ted Hughes, among others, for its sure control of difficult material and its unique music and visual precision. This new volume is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky bitterness, a flavor of ancient...
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-48359-1 (0-307-48359-2)
November 17, 2010 | $33.00
The poetry of Anthony Hecht has been praised by Harold Bloom and Ted Hughes, among others, for its sure control of difficult material and its unique music and visual precision. This new volume is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky bitterness, a flavor of ancient...
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hardcover.
In Praise of the Unfinished
eBook | 160 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author; Poetry - Single Author - Continental European
978-0-307-49610-2 (0-307-49610-4)
November 17, 2010 | $21.00
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as “the grande dame of Polish poetry” and named “one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her native Poland. With this career-spanning collection, we finally have a book of...
eBook | 160 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author; Poetry - Single Author - Continental European
978-0-307-49610-2 (0-307-49610-4)
November 17, 2010 | $21.00
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as “the grande dame of Polish poetry” and named “one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her native Poland. With this career-spanning collection, we finally have a book of...
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hardcover.
The Language of Life
eBook | pages | Anchor | Poetry
978-0-307-56786-4 (0-307-56786-9)
November 17, 2010 | $34.95
"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language...
eBook | pages | Anchor | Poetry
978-0-307-56786-4 (0-307-56786-9)
November 17, 2010 | $34.95
"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language...
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The One-Strand River
eBook | 192 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry
978-0-307-49715-4 (0-307-49715-1)
November 17, 2010 | $
Fourteen years after his last book of poems, we have a glorious new volume from Richard Kenney, who has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as “one of the most gifted and multifaceted and original of American poets.”
In The One-Strand River, Kenney has tales to tell—of loves, births...
eBook | 192 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry
978-0-307-49715-4 (0-307-49715-1)
November 17, 2010 | $
Fourteen years after his last book of poems, we have a glorious new volume from Richard Kenney, who has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as “one of the most gifted and multifaceted and original of American poets.”
In The One-Strand River, Kenney has tales to tell—of loves, births...
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hardcover.
Poems That Touch the Heart
eBook | 464 pages | Doubleday | Poetry
978-0-307-48962-3 (0-307-48962-0)
November 17, 2010 | $29.95
With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.
From the Hardcover edition.
eBook | 464 pages | Doubleday | Poetry
978-0-307-48962-3 (0-307-48962-0)
November 17, 2010 | $29.95
With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.
From the Hardcover edition.
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hardcover.
Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Children's Poems
eBook | 256 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors); Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-307-49757-4 (0-307-49757-7)
November 17, 2010 | $15.95
eBook | 256 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors); Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-307-49757-4 (0-307-49757-7)
November 17, 2010 | $15.95
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hardcover.
Random House Treasury of Friendship Poems
eBook | 224 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-307-49758-1 (0-307-49758-5)
November 17, 2010 | $16.95
eBook | 224 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-307-49758-1 (0-307-49758-5)
November 17, 2010 | $16.95
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hardcover.
Random House Treasury of Year-Round Poems
eBook | 272 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-307-49759-8 (0-307-49759-3)
November 17, 2010 | $15.95
eBook | 272 pages | Random House Reference | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-307-49759-8 (0-307-49759-3)
November 17, 2010 | $15.95
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems
eBook | 304 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-307-55988-3 (0-307-55988-2)
November 17, 2010 | $24.95
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets-intimate, baroque, and expansive...
eBook | 304 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-307-55988-3 (0-307-55988-2)
November 17, 2010 | $24.95
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets-intimate, baroque, and expansive...
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hardcover.
Subterranean
eBook | 96 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-307-49143-5 (0-307-49143-9)
November 17, 2010 | $23.00
Jill Bialosky follows her acclaimed debut collection, The End of Desire, with this powerful sequence of poems that probes the subterranean depths of eros. Gerald Stern has called Bialosky “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness,” and here she enters that garden again, blending...
eBook | 96 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-307-49143-5 (0-307-49143-9)
November 17, 2010 | $23.00
Jill Bialosky follows her acclaimed debut collection, The End of Desire, with this powerful sequence of poems that probes the subterranean depths of eros. Gerald Stern has called Bialosky “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness,” and here she enters that garden again, blending...
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trade paperback.
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again
eBook | 160 pages | Harmony | Poetry; Poetry - Inspirational & Religious
978-0-307-87465-8 (0-307-87465-6)
November 17, 2010 | $18.95
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and...
eBook | 160 pages | Harmony | Poetry; Poetry - Inspirational & Religious
978-0-307-87465-8 (0-307-87465-6)
November 17, 2010 | $18.95
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and...
Also available as a
hardcover.
