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Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
- ASIN: 1501127756
- ISBN: 1501127756
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Tre... [Read More]
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
- ASIN: 1400030935
- ISBN: 1400030935
- Brand: McClatchy, J. D. (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full ... [Read More]
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide
- ASIN: 0313322325
- ISBN: 0313322325
- Manufacturer: Greenwood
Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in thei... [Read More]
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Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (The Best of the Best)
- ASIN: 1451658885
- ISBN: 9781451658880
- Brand: Scribner Book Company
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denou... [Read More]
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The Poet X
- ASIN: 0062662805
- ISBN: 0062662805
- Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with bl... [Read More]
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- ASIN: 0399563245
- ISBN: 0399563245
- Manufacturer: Penguin Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the pow... [Read More]
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Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)
- ASIN: 1501127802
- ISBN: 1501127802
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry... [Read More]
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The Best American Poetry 2015 (The Best American Poetry series)
- ASIN: 1476708207
- ISBN: 1476708207
- Manufacturer: Scribner
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for the direction and spirit of American poetry. Each volume ... [Read More]
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- ASIN: 1401308589
- ISBN: 9781401308582
- Brand: Hyperion
- Manufacturer: Hachette Books
A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83r... [Read More]
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Citizen: An American Lyric
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ISBN: 1555976905
- Brand: Graywolf Press
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe,... [Read More]
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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307278441
- ISBN: 0307278441
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the f... [Read More]
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Contemporary American Poetry
- UPC: 046442527859
- ASIN: 0618527850
- ISBN: 0618527850
- Brand: Brand: Cengage Learning
- Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
This highly respected anthology presents the works of 70 poets who have shaped the contours and direction of mainstream American poetry from 1960 to the present. Designed to provide a rich reading experience for both undergrad and graduate courses, more than 500 selections illustrate the variety and vitality of American poetry over the last few dec... [Read More]
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Orphan Train
- ASIN: 0061950726
- ISBN: 0061950726
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her ... [Read More]
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- ASIN: 0345505344
- ISBN: 0345505344
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when th... [Read More]
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I Am Her Tribe
- UPC: 050837422407
- ASIN: 1449495559
- ISBN: 1449495559
- Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
#IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers.Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create moments of connection through empowerment and storytelling. Focusing on inspiration... [Read More]
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Gilead: A Novel
- ASIN: 031242440X
- ISBN: 031242440X
- Brand: Picador USA
- Manufacturer: Picador
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA PBS Great American Read selectionNearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and... [Read More]
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Dog Songs: Poems
- ASIN: 0143125834
- ISBN: 0143125834
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her wor... [Read More]
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Sula
- ASIN: 1400033438
- ISBN: 1400033438
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures ev... [Read More]
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A Clockwork Orange
- ASIN: 0393312836
- ISBN: 0393312836
- Brand: Anthony Burgess
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the cen... [Read More]
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Love Her Wild: Poems
- ASIN: 1501171232
- ISBN: 1501171232
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and S... [Read More]
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