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 The Practice of the Presence of GodBest Price: $7.32 Brother Lawrence's spiritual classic can be summarized in a few short steps: 1. Have a... |  Strangely Marked Metal: PoemsBest Price: $10.00 |  An Introduction to PoetryBest Price: $40.96 Much to like in this book; despite a lot of dreary examples of ancient poets writing drearily... |  The Vintage Book of Contemporary American PoetryBest Price: $10.00 A required textbook for a poetry class, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry is a... |  Poetics (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.33 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and... |
 The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic PoemsBest Price: $8.93 Rumi is one of my favorite poets but Barks does not do him justice. The translation poorly... |  Our WorldBest Price: $13.58 I just loved this book. Somehow it opened an intimate window into the life of Molly Malone Cook,... |  Works and Days and TheogonyBest Price: $7.69 Hesiod's Theogony was the best known poem in antiquity and the single greatest summary of the... |  Creepy Susie: and 13 other tragic tales for troubled children.Best Price: $5.37 While I wouldn't say Creepy Susie is the best book in its class it's defiantly a funny and... |  Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $1.04 Oscar Wilde was one of the most brilliant men to ever live and his oeuvre definitely deserves a... |
 The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993Best Price: $19.77 These poems have to be the most entertaining and creative poems Bukowski wrote. Drab and... |  He-Motions: Even Strong Men StruggleBest Price: $14.93 Very enlightening... Also, this should be a resource that every Man should add to his reading... |  The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and EssaysBest Price: $15.64 A collection of new poems and beloved classics about creatures of all sorts; a companion volume... |  The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading EditionBest Price: $10.52 This piece was in better condition than I expected and I received for much cheaper than what my... |  The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Spiritual Teachings and Reflections (Sacred Wisdom)Best Price: $4.06 Of all the things I have bought on Amazon and wrote a review for, this book is probably the one... |
 Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950Best Price: $18.52 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is T.S. Eliot at his best. He depicts an entire generation... |  The Lords and the New CreaturesBest Price: $4.78 I like the Doors but Jim Morrison's poetry in this books is medocre at best. Some of it is... |  Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.41 Long hailed as the Russian Shakespeare, Pushkin's novel in verse is a tantalizing combination of... |  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl: Verse TranslationsBest Price: $11.00 These are absolutely the best translations of the Gawain- (aka Pearl-) poet around. It's... |  O Holy Cow!: The Selected Verse of Phil RizzutoBest Price: $8.09 This literary gem is destined to be handed down from parent to child for generations to come. ... |
 Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to GodBest Price: $8.66 Excellent condition of the physcial book but writing on many pages of the previous owner's... |  Collected Poems 1947-1997Best Price: $13.90 Ginsberg has always been an enigma to me. He certainly has sparks of genius; the justly famous... |  Iceland: Land of the SagasBest Price: $13.95 A beautiful book combining stunning photography with an in-depth historical, literary, and... |  Conamara Blues: PoemsBest Price: $7.89 John O'Donahue wrote poetry with the grace and passion of a waterfall -- a grand IRISH... |  OmerosBest Price: $6.49 Exploring the relationships between natives, tourists, and nature, Walcott moves beyond just our... |
 Great Short Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.06 My parents read me one poem a night every night since I was 4 until I could recite them all. I... |  The Complete Poems: Anne SextonBest Price: $10.59 An old friend gave me this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it.... |  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.87 This was one of the books i had to read in my Eng 101 class.. loved it.. one of the only books... |  The AeneidBest Price: $16.35 I am writing this review for The Kindle ed of this book. (The Fagels translation). It is not... |  Struwwelpeter in English TranslationBest Price: $3.97 I had ordered 2 copies which arrived promptly and in excellent condition. My mom is a native... |
 The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Best Price: $13.00 Far more qualified minds than mine have commented on Tyler's translation and how it compares to... |  The Best of Ogden NashBest Price: $16.73 The writings of Ogden Nash have a unique rhythm and tempo. The humor, and style, coupled with... |  The Age of InnocenceBest Price: $34.21 Lectori Salutem, In the Beauty of young human beings, lies the hope of the world. Those... |  The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.40 . . . . it is instructive and corrective to have a glimpse of what was: a lyrical, medeivalist... |  Hip-Hop Poetry and The ClassicsBest Price: $14.99 This book was introduced to me in an English Department meeting held by our county. It was... |
 Beowulf (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $2.40 I have not read it yet but I am sure it will give me some benefits like others. |  Autobiography of RedBest Price: $7.14 "Autobiography of Red" by Ann Carson is worth the read simply because of its unique... |  Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)Best Price: $7.94 I had never heard of this book until I saw it on my 8th grade son's reading list. Growing up in... |  Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical VerseBest Price: $5.00 This is an excellent introduction to formal poetry; not just meter, but rhyme, sonics, and... |  The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryBest Price: $12.67 If poetry and sarcasm had a wild affair, and the more feminine of the two (poetry, I suppose)... |
 The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.38 Wordsworth is a beloved writer of mine. I love his passionate and direct descriptions of Nature,... |  The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.90 This is absolutely one of the best translations of Gilgamesh available. Andrew George gives us... |  Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters (Library of America)Best Price: $25.77 I got this book for my sister as a gift and she absolutely loves it. It is a nice compilation... |  Creating PoetryBest Price: $2.98 This book is more suited for one who has started writng poetry. There are numerous exercises... |  The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of HafizBest Price: $7.24 The poet Hafiz provides short poems that I read to my wife as we prepare to sleep. There is... |
 Elegy: PoemsBest Price: $11.82 I love these dark brooding pain addled poems. Art should illuminate the human condition, it is... |  The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised)Best Price: $14.83 Lorca's poems flutter your heart, and Christopher Mauer really knows Lorca, the translations are... |  Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and AnthologyBest Price: $44.99 Ms. Vendler is by far the most exciting and intelligent poetry critic of today. Her... |  Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)Best Price: $3.75 buy this now. it's the essential frank o'hara. great choice to keep around for lulls in the day,... |  The Enlightened HeartBest Price: $6.92 This is a compact anthology, but a wonderful collection that includes Li Po, Wu-Men, Rumi,... |
 Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.00 D.D.R. Owen, late professor emeritus of French in the University of St. Andrews, states of his... |  The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and WritingBest Price: $7.89 This book is neither a guide to writing poetry, nor does it provide much insight about it for... |  How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with PoetryBest Price: $2.95 While this book has a very academic tone, it is also obvious that the author has a genuine... |  Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996Best Price: $7.75 Dazzling and intense works. Good overview of his output. Although this is not the Collected... |  Paradise Lost (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)Best Price: $2.38 A heafty volume for a thrifty price. Good binding, clean & easy to read font and enough... |
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