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John Ashbery, Your Name Here (Poems)In this book, the author “continues to examine the themes that have preoccupied him of late: age and its inevitable losses, memories of childhood, the transforming magic of dreams in daily living. This beautiful new book offers souvenirs to readers, inviting them to ‘personalize’ the poems with their own associations and memories. Ashbery’s masterful voice is heard with renewed vigor and poignancy in this wonderful collection.”
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 127 pages, about 6 x 9 inches. paperback. New, bargain remainder.
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William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (unabridged)“As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The two works were published together in 1794 with the subtitle, ‘Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.’ The poems of Songs of Innocence describe childhood states of naturalness and purity in delicately beautiful lyrics that reveal a child’s unspoiled and beatific view of life and human nature. In Songs of Experience the mood and tone darken, the poems suggesting the bitter corruptions and disillusionment that await the innocent. The contrast between the two sets of lyrics is perhaps at its most acute in the poems ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tyger,’ the latter ultimately expressing wonderment at the seemingly paradoxical coexistence of good and evil. The full texts of all the poems in the 1794 edition of both collections are included in this volume.”
Unabridged and corrected republication of the texts from the 1794 edition.
Dover Publications, 1992. 52 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected PoemsA collection from a former Poet Laureate of the United States, this book contains “both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections . . . . These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kind of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite.”
Random House, 2002. 171 pages, about 5 x 8 inches. Paperback. New.
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Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other PoemsA selection of the best of Frost’s early works, “originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: ‘An Old Man’s Winter Night,’ ‘In the Home Stretch,’ ‘Meeting and Passing,’ ‘Putting In the Seed,’ ‘A Time to Talk,’ ‘The Hill Wife,’ ‘The Exposed Nest,’ ‘The Sound of Trees’ and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged.”
Dover Publications, 1993. 53 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems, 1957-1994“This volume replaces Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes’s writing life, and some new work. Another notable feature is the inclusion of poems from his books for younger readers, What is the Truth? and Season Songs.”
faber and faber, 1995. 332 pages, about about 5 x 7½ inches tall, paperback. New, remainder; some faint wear at edges.
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Barbara Kingsolver, Another America / Otra AméricaCon traducción Español por Rebeca Cartes
“Graced by six new poems and an introduction by the author, this second edition of Barbara Kingsolver’s luminous book of poems is an eloquent reminder of why poetry remains central to our lives. Whether exploring the intricacies of the human heart, bearing witness to resistance to war and violence, or limning everyday moments of grace, Barbara Kingsolver writes with a strong and clear vision of the complex strata of American life.”
A Spanish translation of Kingsolver’s original poem in English is given on each facing page.
Seal Press, 1998 (second edition). 115 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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Sapphire, Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems“Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America’s past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism, and urban and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritual path back to one’s roots, a story of family, race, and self-transformation.
“A provocative book that astonishes by the power of its language.”
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 129 pages, about 6 x 8½ inches, hardcover. New, remainder.
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