General Books


The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.23 This is a very relaxing yet thought-provoking allegory of life and love, but primarily love. I...	Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology Best Price: $17.00 For some reason, the reviews for the anthology itself are posted here, instead of reviews of...	The Dream Songs Best Price: $10.49 The /mandatory/ companion to Berryman's /Collected Poems/, as Berryman isn't Berryman without...	A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Best Price: $7.97 What is love? Perhaps the question has never been answered more succinctly, more completely, and...	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....



The Best of Ogden Nash Best Price: $15.33 The writings of Ogden Nash have a unique rhythm and tempo. The humor, and style, coupled with...	Awakening of Intelligence, The Best Price: $10.11 This is a book which can easily change the way you see (observe) world. It is a book which...	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Best Price: $8.88 mary barnard's translations of sappho's fragments are most musical (i discovered barnard via a...	The Practice of the Presence of God Best Price: $7.36 I have read other versions of Brother Lawrence in the past. This one is done very well. It...	Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters) Best Price: $14.85 I've come to poetry kind of late in my life. I attended a poetry reading in 2006 that woke me up...



A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat Best Price: $5.45 I was given this book by a Morrocan Jew in exchange for a matt-black Zippo lighter whilst I was...	The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Edition (with Poetry 21 CD-ROM) Best Price: $39.50 I love this anthology, have read it from cover to cover, and have assigned it to sophomore-level...	Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $10.61 This review relates to the volume: -Sir Philip Sidney: Major Works-. Edited with an...	The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton Best Price: $10.71 An old friend gave me this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it....	The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Best Price: $6.95 I would like to add something rather important to the comments of other readers of this fine...

The Iliad Best Price: $22.25 This recording is an awesome presentation of THE ILIAD. Derek Jacobi does and excellent job....	The Best American Poetry 2008: Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Charles Wright (Best American Poetry) Best Price: $10.88 The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition...	Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $8.00 This edition is all right - reasonable level of annotation (most students would benefit from...	Tarantula Best Price: $7.91 I bought this book because I wanted the picture on the front cover. However, I forgot to read...	Poetry in English: An Anthology Best Price: $42.95 This excellent collection spans from the Middle English ballads to the mid nineteen-eighties,...

The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Best Price: $6.76 This translation of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" kept me reading from beginning to end. I...	Doomed Love (Penguin Great Loves) Best Price: $5.82 DOOMED LOVE is a story of Gods, the fall of Troy and a love that just couldn't be because it...	187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 19712007 Best Price: $10.81 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border contains amazing poetry, anti-poetry, narratives...	The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) Best Price: $12.52 Keats was the Romantic poet who cared most about art and beauty. He didn't allow himself to get...	Our World Best Price: $13.50 This is a great read. I had just heard of Mary's work and ordered quite few of her books. They...

Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the 'Tristan of Thomas' (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.40 If all the medieval scholars in the world were asked to name the definitive version of the...	Blacks Best Price: $11.00 This book contains some of Gwendolyn Brooks best poetry. It is definitely a keeper!	House of Belonging Best Price: $12.06 This is a beautiful and personal book of poetry that explores the different people and places to...	Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains Best Price: $5.51 I was impressed by Mecum's creativity in Zombie Haiku. It is a good read. I wonder if Mecum...	Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing Best Price: $4.99 Fun tour through the ins and outs of poetry from Whitman to Koch. A bit reductionist, but a...

What the Living Do: Poems Best Price: $7.90 The value of life haunted by those who have lost it: simple, grounded, and devastatingly...	Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Edition) Best Price: $0.01 I ordered this text directly from the publisher for my students. Never once did the Dover...	The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Best Price: $7.98 This book has historical context; The Wife's prologue and tale; New Historicism Criticism...	John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America #187) Best Price: $26.40 With this volume, The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of...	Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $13.00 Book was shipped quickly and was in excellent condition. Exactly as it was promoted to be.

The Classic Hundred Poems Best Price: $13.99 This anthology is surprising in that it's not just a fine selection, but the notes are useful. ...	Ideology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.66 This is an extremely useful introduction to the topic of ideology in a congenial format. Don't...	View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Best Price: $3.49 Some of us like it rough. This dame plays the way we used to play in the streets of Philly....	Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces: Includes: All That Fall; Embers; Acts Without Words, I and II; Mimes Best Price: $5.98 Krapp's Last Tape Published: 1958 Premiere: 1958 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) ...	First Four Books Of Poems Best Price: $7.49 This volume collects Louise Gluck's first four books: Firstborn (1968), The House on Marshland...

Speaking Up and Spelling It Out Best Price: $15.52 Speaking Up and Spelling It Out used an open format consisting of essays, poems and interview....	Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems Best Price: $7.75 This book is great for students, teachers, and "general readers." The introduction...	The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play Best Price: $8.86 The Palm at the End of the Mind is the book referenced by Harold Bloom in his great study: ...	Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautr?amont Best Price: $11.59 This review is of Maldoror, alone. Lautreamont's Maldoror is legendary for its bold and...	T.S. Eliot: Selected Poems (Library of Classic Poets) Best Price: $4.76 For some reason most poetry does not really resonate with me. One of the only poets I can stand...

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays Best Price: $7.75 I had to read it a few times to understand what was really going on. Because it is written in a...	The Best American Poetry 2006 (Best American Poetry) Best Price: $5.99 Collins' poetry is one of "accessibility"--a term he expands upon greatly in his...	The Epic of Gilgamesh Best Price: $11.99 I first sought out this book when I was studying the story of the flood from the book of Genesis...	Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry) Best Price: $10.49 Aime' Cesaire's "Return to My Native Land," one of the great prose-poetry works of the...	Greek Lyrics (Phoenix Books) Best Price: $6.00 Culled together from the extant works of dozens of Greek lyricists, the late Richmond...

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 Best Price: $7.66 It is difficult often to take to heart a poet in translation. It is difficult too for the modern...	Midlife and the Great Unknown Best Price: $14.80 I wish the "midlife" reference were not in the title as it made me hesitate and delay...	Rising, Falling, Hovering Best Price: $13.15 compelling, innovative and current in its scope cd wright is a powerful poet	Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.49 The lead Amazon review, I think, is very much off the mark. Rossetti's works include...	Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794 (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $6.00 Gorgeous poetry and illustrations by Blake. A must have for your library and a treasure to share...

Twelve Henry David Thoreau Bookmarks Best Price: $0.93 "Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning...

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