Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p…
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By: Allen Ginsberg
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
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"The weight of the world is love."-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"What came is gone forever every time"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
2. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
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"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
3. The Collected Poems
By: Wallace Stevens
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
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"Consider the odd morphology of regret."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
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"Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
4. The Magnetic Fields
By: Philippe Soupault , André Breton
3.88
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
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"They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
5. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
6. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
7. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
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"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
8. Hymns to the Night
By: Novalis , Dick Higgins
4.05
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more
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"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"-Novalis, Hymns to the Night
9. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
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10. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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11. The Complete Poems
By: Anne Sexton , Maxine Kumin
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the i… read more
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12. The Complete Poetry and Prose
By: Harold Bloom , William Blake , David V. Erdman
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text… read more
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13. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
14. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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15. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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16. The Theater and Its Double
By: Antonin Artaud , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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17. The Selected Poems
By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more
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18. Duino Elegies
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more
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19. Manifestoes of Surrealism
By: André Breton , None , Richard Seaver , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
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20. Transformations
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more
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21. Poèmes Saturniens
By: Paul Verlaine
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Des Poemes saturniens, entendons qu'ils sont places sous le signe de Saturne. Ils seront donc inspi… read more
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