General Books


Creating Poetry Best Price: $2.55 This book is more suited for one who has started writng poetry. There are numerous exercises...	One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi Best Price: $14.00 Spectacular! I am a Rumi scholar and I learned a great deal more from this fabulous presentation...	Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry) Best Price: $10.70 Aime' Cesaire's "Return to My Native Land," one of the great prose-poetry works of the...	The Divine Comedy: Hell (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.57 The greatest strength of Dorothy Sayers's translation of The Divine Comedy is its notes. Sayers...	Donkey Gospel: Poems Best Price: $7.91 I just reread the lowest rating for this collection of poems. I don't personally know the...



William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $11.42 Wordsworth is a beloved writer of mine. I love his passionate and direct descriptions of Nature,...	The Seagull Reader: Poems, Second Edition Best Price: $19.52 Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value...	The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Best Price: $7.85 great book, great read. perfect for the coffee table, or the bathroom for your guests to go...	English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.25 This anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred,...	Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Best Price: $8.59 The task of a translator, I think, has always been unappreciated. It is a demanding one, a task...



The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.00 Anything on Basho is great. Even tought i can't agree with the author's choice of using a four...	Omeros Best Price: $3.00 Exploring the relationships between natives, tourists, and nature, Walcott moves beyond just our...	One Hundred and One Famous Poems Best Price: $7.81 This is a wonderful collection of poems. IT is a national treasure. I had this book and lost...	Transformations Best Price: $4.82 It probably sounds almost like a cliche, but I still must say it--Anne Sexton takes a new spun...	Book of Mercy Best Price: $6.37 book, well worth the read, whose title comes from "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen: That's...

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono Best Price: $11.84 What can be said? On the surface, it's obviously the most pretentious twaddle ever hard-bound---...	Wild Iris Best Price: $5.75 There once was a poet named Gluck, Who wrote all the poems in this book. She suffers in life, ...	The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) Best Price: $15.03 First of all, the first 10 Cantos are great. It is interesting to see how Pound uses cinematic...	The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.22 Amazing story of what one man will suffer simply to achieve their dream of returnig to their...	The Oxford Book of American Poetry Best Price: $16.90 I have this bad habit of buying anthologies of poetry, though I have many favorite poets. This...

Contemporary American Poetry Best Price: $57.99 One can always quibble about who should have been included in an anthology of American poetry,...	Delights & Shadows Best Price: $8.46 This is clear- speaking clear- thinking poetry. Kooser advocates communication in poetry. He...	Behind My Eyes: Poems (with audio CD) Best Price: $14.77 There are very beautiful poems in this collection. I have always admired Li-Young Lee's early...	Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.25 I have always received the best service when I have placed an order from you. Outstanding!!!!!	Midlife and the Great Unknown Best Price: $14.74 I wish the "midlife" reference were not in the title as it made me hesitate and delay...

Rising, Falling, Hovering Best Price: $12.60 compelling, innovative and current in its scope cd wright is a powerful poet	Collected Poems 1943-2004 Best Price: $4.28 Collected Poems 1943-2004 is an anthology of poetry by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award...	The Top 500 Poems Best Price: $8.99 This is a book to be comfortable with. Consider how closely connected one to another all the...	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Best Price: $7.88 Everyone should own a copy of this short collection of insightful ideas. Buy at least two ...	The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Best Price: $8.72 The only thing wrong with this book is that there should be more of it. Roethke represents a...

Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction Best Price: $42.93	Poems New and Collected Best Price: $6.50 This is a Valentine poem to Wislawa's poems. I do not speak Polish, but my old mother does,...	John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $12.66 Since my youth I have admired the poetry of John Donne. Not for its overwhelmingly religious and...	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...	Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI Best Price: $29.16 The structure of the book has been well thought out,with short sections of the text above the...

Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.89 All passion, intensity and fire, Byron cuts a swathe through the Regency era's lights,...	Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems Best Price: $8.27 This book is great for students, teachers, and "general readers." The introduction...	Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.24 Beowulf is the most important traditional epic in the Old English language and, I would argue,...	The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison Best Price: $5.90 I find this book to be mediocre at best. A friend told me that Jim Morrison's poetry books are...	Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation Best Price: $11.27 The topic of this anthology of poetry, "risking everything," is perfect for anyone...

A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $16.50 This book was originally assigned to me in college as part of a course on US Intelligence. It...	The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001, New Edition Best Price: $10.68 I first posted this under "The School Among the Ruins" but it really belongs here: ...	The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) Best Price: $10.19 Keats was the Romantic poet who cared most about art and beauty. He didn't allow himself to get...	The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost Best Price: $7.99 For one reason or another, I have been recently reading (and reviewing) poetry collections--from...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.70 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fourteenth century alliterative poem of unknown authorship....

The Aeneid Best Price: $18.71 I have been a student of the classics since I was young. Naturally, I had been exposed to the...	She Best Price: $5.98 buy this for your mother, brother, father, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandparents, teacher,...	Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Best Price: $5.25 The third in this series of translation of Greek drama has the same basic flaws as the others:...	The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno (Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Reprint Series) Best Price: $11.00 I found this edition of Dante's most famous book of the Divine Comedy to be excellent in all...	The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.78 When I was hiking in northern Spain, I kept seeing references to the Cid. This made me want to...

Purgatorio (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $2.99 There are two things that set this edition of Dante's Purgatorio apart. The first is the...	Romeo & Juliet (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) Best Price: $10.95 This is a performed audio play, not just read by one voice. It is very easy to follow along, and...	The Iliad (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.79 Rieu's pioneering Iliad of 1950 brought Homer to millions, it was constantly re-published...	The Portable Dante (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.00 First, a word about Mark Musa's translation of Dante's works. His interpretations of the Divine...

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