Poetry as Persuasion (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.)
By: Carl Dennis
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of per…
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1. The Flexible Lyric (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.)
By: Ellen Bryant Voigt
4.20
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric … read more
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2. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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3. The Art of the Poetic Line
By: James Longenbach
5.00
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each b… read more
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4. The Country Between Us
By: Carolyn Forché
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Forche worked as a journalist and wa… read more
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5. Walking to Martha's Vineyard
By: Franz Wright
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his be… read more
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6. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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7. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
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8. Elegy
By: Larry Levis , Philip Levine
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Phil… read more
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9. On the Soul and the Resurrection
By: Gregory of Nyssa
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What happens to us after death? How do we reconcile our religious beliefs and our scientific world … read more
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10. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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11. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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12. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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13. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
By: Terrance Hayes
4.17
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more
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14. Poetry as Persuasion (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.)
By: Carl Dennis
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of per… read more
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