General Books


Women in Praise of the Sacred Best Price: $3.00 When I was doing research for my book, Infamous Eve, A History, I found the translation of The...	First Indian on the Moon Best Price: $10.25 I wish all the pieces in this book ended like the piece "Split Decision". "When...	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $6.90 Fast delivery, the book wasn't very good and a hard read, but you probably already knew that if...	The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.65 The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome...	Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language Book Best Price: $2.95 I don't know if I would call this an introduction. It's more of a introductory source anthology,...



The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature (Modern Asian Literature) Best Price: $27.50 I read an earlier edition of this book and was very impressed. Part of my MA thesis is on Lao...	The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.22 The translation is authentic and scholarly, maintaining the ironic and laconic aspects of the...	1020 Haiku in Translation: The Heart of Basho, Buson and Issa Best Price: $23.99 This is what it advertises-- 1020 Haiku from the three great haiku masters-- Basho, Buson, and...	The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore Best Price: $4.61 Fabulous collection from many of Tagore's books. Herbert Vetter has done a superb job. More...	Selected Fables (Dual-Language) Best Price: $6.41 Fables are entertaining and interesting, reasonably easy to understand for the intermediate...



Salvinia Molesta: Poems (The Vqr Poetry Series) (The Vqr Poetry Series) Best Price: $10.06 Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the...	The Complete Sonnets and Poems (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.39 Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage, To witness duty,...	Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Best Price: $19.20 The sadly ignored second half of the Aeneid does not deserve its consignment to the dust-bin. I...	Blacks Best Price: $11.50 This book contains some of Gwendolyn Brooks best poetry. It is definitely a keeper!	The Collected Poems Best Price: $7.50 Sylvia Plath - The Collected Poems has to be the best book of poetry in the world. I love Sylvia...

The Essential Aeneid Best Price: $5.98 As a Latin teacher, the Aeneid is one of my favorite books of all time. This is an excellent...	The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide Best Price: $7.34 Pinksky's close careful discussion of how sound works in poetry is immensely instructive, like...	New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 Best Price: $7.30 It is difficult often to take to heart a poet in translation. It is difficult too for the modern...	Keats's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $11.88 The very name of John Keats is a metaphor for genius tragically interrupted. When one considers...	The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems (Dover Value Editions) Best Price: $4.52 Let me start by saying that I love the Poetic Edda dearly, both the god- and hero-related poems....

The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.61 That is the best translation of the Masnavi I have ever seen. It consists both the original idea...	Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (Three Continents Press) Best Price: $15.25 As a poetry lover, it is a shame that I have only recently discovered Nizar Kabbani, one of the...	How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 Best Price: $8.50 This collect of Native American poetry is excellent. Joy Harjo relates her experience in a way...	Sappho: A New Translation Best Price: $7.96 I hate to say it, but this book made me somewhat regret studying Ancient Greek. I was given a...	The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku Best Price: $13.07 The power, the beauty of each poem comes from words erased, struck out. OR, in the minds of the...

Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Texas Pan American Series) Best Price: $17.51 "A very rich and illuminating new anthology that covers the entire sweep of Latin American...	Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $15.65 This edition is all right - reasonable level of annotation (most students would benefit from...	Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 I am always interested in reading poetry, I have loved it since childhood. However I do not...	Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.79 Despite the increasing place Hardy's poetry has in the canon of English Literature it seems to...	Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Best Price: $15.00 The purposes of the anothology are stated in the title: Against Forgetting. Poetry of Witness....

Migration: New & Selected Poems Best Price: $14.71 This is an excellent book of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize and 2006 National Book Review award...	One Thousand & One Persian-English Proverbs: Learning Language and Culture Through Commonly Used Sayings Best Price: $10.83 If someone is curious about Iran and the Iranians, this book is just the right way to learn as...	The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 Best Price: $11.53 For a guy who's published as many books of poetry as Bukowski has, a large book of selected...	Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $4.99 Good if you like long poems, but Ashbery has some shorter poems that are just as respectable....	She Had Some Horses Best Price: $7.67 I am in awe of the power of the title poem. I have read it over and over again for many years....

Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book) Best Price: $7.95 I was told about this book by a friend at an Artist Retreat. I had the opportunity to read a...	Peeping Tom Tom Girl Best Price: $8.41 In Peeping Tom Tom Girl Marisela Norte takes us on a ride she, herself, has been taking half her...	The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav Hauge Best Price: $11.27 "If you have a tiny farm, you need to love poetry more than the farm. If you sell apples,...	You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life Best Price: $4.64 The third book of poetry that Ms. Esselman and Ms. Velez have put together, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY...	The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry Best Price: $10.00 This poetry anthology is a great find. I discovered many talented world poets with this book....

The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $6.65 THANK YOU, IT WAS THE RIGHT BOOK THAT I NEEDED FOR CLASS, CHEAPER THAN B&N AND CAME ON TIME.	The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $4.99 The book was in excellent condition. It was sent on time. Outstanding.	Faber Book of Useful Verse	Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death Best Price: $7.65 Nice book. Good text. Every poem got is little explanation or the translation in Kanji. We learn...	Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook) Best Price: $5.00 I am almost finished reading this. I found the picture on the cover of "Paris Spleen"...

Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure Best Price: $3.00 It needs to be mentioned that in order to really love this collection, you should already have a...	The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them Best Price: $18.95 No one underestimates the difficulty of cancer, but no one should underestimate the joy and...	Lyrical Ballads (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.91 I've already read through half of it for a class and I love it. The language and the images are...	The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.50 Ovid was banished into exile for writing "Art of Love", which is included in this...	Catullus: The Complete Poems (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.47 As a Latin student of Catullus, this book was recommended to me as a guide. While the format is...

Haiku (Asian Arts and Crafts For Creative Kids) Best Price: $6.98 First let me say this: I NEVER write reviews. But after seeing so few written for this title,...	Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell Best Price: $8.72 Nya-Weh John.. been waiting for a long time to get another book from you! Stickman and this new...	Inferno (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $13.42 This Norton Critical Edition of Dante's masterpiece is based on Michael Palma's verse...	Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original) Best Price: $17.79 As the foremost translator of thirteenth-century mystic poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks...	Christmas Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Best Price: $4.91 This thoughtful selection is deeply satisfying and inspired me to read additional poetry by some...

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