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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Garden Poetry Book by Cambridge University Press. Very Good Condition for age. Jacket has light wear especially on the back, and pages are like new for 2008. Perfect for Garden Writers. Medium Size Book. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number, Andrew Marvell put it - by the beauty of flowers. Then, from the middle of the eighteenth century onward, that enjoyment was enriched by a surge of popular interest in botany. Besides exploring the relationship between poetic and scientific responses to the green world within the context of humanity's changing concepts of its own place in the ecosphere, Molly Mahood considers the part that flowering plants played in the daily lives and therefore in the literary work of a number of writers who could all be called poet-botanists: Erasmus Darwin, George Crabbe, John Clare, John Ruskin and D. H. Lawrence. A concluding chapter looks closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or obtained in the violent twentieth century.

The Poet as Botanist

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Vintage 90’s Zen Rock Gardening Book w/ Poetry. Very Good Condition for age. Jacket and pages are like new for 1993 with very little wear as shown. perfect for Japanese Garden enthusiasts. Thin Book. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Zen Rock Gardening

New York

English

Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

John Hollander

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket.

100 Best Poems to Memorize

Gathers poems by Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost

Committed to Memory *1989 edition

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

This is something about self-exploration--something they don't teach in school. Something that's very hard to learn on your own. This is something about putting yourself first because it's okay to love yourself before anyone else. This is something about doing what's best for you, no matter what people say, because only you know what you deserve. This is something about being real, being real to who you are and accepting things as they come and change. This is something about your mistakes, about your flaws, and about how beautiful it is to get up and try again. This is something about being you, about using your voice when you're afraid. About building enough courage when you feel like standing up to something you don't believe in, something that's wrong. This is about you, and every day should be about you, and that's something you should always consider.

Light Theory

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This is something about self-expression--something they don't teach in school. Something that's very hard to learn on your own. This is something about putting yourself first because it's okay to love yourself before anyone else. This is something about doing what's best for you, no matter what people say, because only you know what you deserve. This is something about being real, being real to who you are and accepting things as they come and change. This is something about your mistakes, about your flaws, and about how beautiful it is to get up and try again. This is something about being you, about using your voice when you're afraid. About building enough courage when you feel like standing up to something you don't believe in, something that's wrong. This is about you, and every day should be about you, and that's something you should always consider.

Star Theory

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#paperback #nonfiction #beatles #lyrics #musichistory #rock #rockandroll #60s #songlyrics #poetry #70s #music #songs #musicanalysis #60smusic #70smusic #thebeatles #coffeetable #musicology #popmusic #popsongs #rockmusic 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arkansas

The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America. For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and universities and with collectors and friends. Many have never been published before. More than 100 songs and lyrics are reproduced in THE BEATLES LYRICS, providing Hunter Davies a unique platform to tell the story of the music. The intimacy of these reproductions -- there are sections crossed out and rewritten, and words tossed into the final recordings that were never written down -- ensures that THE BEATLES LYRICS will be a treasure for musicians, scholars, and fans everywhere.

The Beatles Lyrics

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James Tate

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Poems

In this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, "To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate′s genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had." Father′s Day My daughter has lived overseas for a number of years now. She married into royalty, and they won′t let her communicate with any of her family or friends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips of water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband, the Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming. Fierce guard dogs won′t let her out of their sight. I hired a detective, but he was killed trying to rescue her. I have written hundreds of letters to the State Department. They have written back saying that they are aware of the situation. I never saw her dance. I was always away at some convention. I never saw her sing. I was always working late. I called her My Princess, to make up for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me. Birdseed was her middle name.

The Ghost Soldiers

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Very minor wear on the one corner but otherwise in perfect condition.

California

The poems in Lynn Xu's striking debut collection, Debts & Lessons, travel under the power of history's illusory engine and echo its ululations of love, violence, and lament. Named after the first part of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this book also finds its way across oceans and between languages, as the poet looks to the dead for guidance amid the abstractions of contemporary life. Xu pays her phantoms (and her readers) with the dream-currency of hallucinatory songs, which balance her finely-tuned ear against a world of awakenings.

Debts and Lessons

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#hardcover #poetry #Texas #BoyceHouse #firstedition #numbered #signed #TexasCentennial Rare; no. 36 of a “de luxe edition consisting of sixty copies numbered and signed.” Book of poetry by Boyce House. Published in 1936 by Dealey and Lowe, Dallas, Texas. This was the same year as the Texas Centennial. A first edition hardcover book in very good condition that has foxing on the inside cover, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. 7.75"x5.5", 33 pages.  HOUSE, BOYCE B. (1896–1961). Boyce House, author, humorist, and radio personality, son of Noah E. and Margaret (O'Brien) House, was born on November 29, 1896, in Piggott, Arkansas. House was a member of the Texas Folklore Society, the Poetry Society of Texas, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Texas Editorial Association. He was married to Golda Fay Jamison on April 8, 1927; they had no children. House died on December 30, 1961, in Fort Worth.

Texas

Texas Rhythm -Signed, Numbered Edition

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.

Turtle Island

Leather bound, top cover loose. Rest is solid and in excellent condition. Est. late 1800s. 396 pages. Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson. 

Poetry by Robert Browning

#paperback #poetry #langleav #love some tabbed pages! 

Georgia

International best-selling author of Love & Misadventure, Lullabies (Goodreads Readers Choice Award), and Memories Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in The Universe of Us. Planets, stars, and constellations feature prominently in this beautiful, original poetry collection from Lang Leav. Inspired by the wonders of the universe, the best-selling poetess writes about love and loss, hope and hurt, being lost and found. Lang's poetry encompasses the breadth of emotions we all experience and evokes universal feelings with her skillfully crafted words.

The Universe of Us

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Rupi Kaur

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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All eleven of his books complete

The poetry of Robert frost 

Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. In the technicolor timewarp called Hell, Hong Kong, wannabe cowgirl La La is hellbent on realizing her dream to be a folk-singing sensation, even if it means surviving a dysfunctional relationship with her kidnapper, Ren, who is just hellbent. Ren thinks he'll win, but La La, dead or alive, always wins.

"Moving between the explicit descriptions of the Marquis de Sade and the implicit ironies of Nabokov, these pieces are excruciatingly compelling, so infernal as they are related in languages variously pornographic and desperately, radically tender. Short's brilliant tragicomedy can be read as a metaphor for China's dynamic with American culture or the story of any determined enterprising youth whose eager 'bloody head' under a bumbling tyrant's 'boot is bent.' A bold, imaginative, timely work from a courageous and complex thinker."—Heidi Lynn Staples

"Heated & heartbreaking, CHINA COWBOY charms like wedding cans, flesh-filled, on tarmac. This car (perhaps an old, long Cadillac with longhorns glaring & charred) contains a man, Ren: a 'family man' or 'something commensurate.' La-La: our heroine. & the driver, guiding us expertly over the bluegrass, bodies & Time Warps of Hell, child abuse, power & Country Music is Kim Gek Lin Short."—Rauan Klassnik

"CHINA COWBOY is more hydra than hybrid, a slim monster sprouting new directions for form, narrative, culture, and identity. Meanwhile, everything it bites comes to vicious, gorgeous life."—Christian TeBordo

China Cowboy

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In "I Still Want It", Derrick Jaxn delivers a life-changing collection of poems immersed in raw, passionate, but brave vulnerability. Dark truths of his lustful past, revelations during his ongoing battle with heartbreak, and empowering words of wisdom leave readers with a renewed faith in a love they may have lost hope in finding. His signature way with words seasons all 178 pages of "I Still Want It" which will not only evoke a cocktail of emotions but leave the unforgettable and gratifying taste that Derrick is known for in his previous titles.

I Still Want It

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Published 1911, 1st Edition - Sherman, French & Co., Boston, Publishers - Page edges pretty dirty - ISBN: 1356825001 / 9781356825004

New Jersey

The Human Fantasy

A collection of poetry including "Poems of the American South," "Poems of the American West," and "Border Lines."

"Poems of the American South," "Poems of the American West," "Border Lines"

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Bundle


The Tent on the Beach and Dramatic Lyrics by John Greenleaf Whittier - Antique Book - 1899

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1899. First edition.  Dark brown cloth with exquisite gold design on cover and spine by Margaret Armstrong. 12 full-page black and white tissue-guarded plates by Charles H. Woodbury and Marcia O. Woodbury. Stamped from library of "Tressler Orphans Home, Loysville, PA" (see photo).  This is a gorgeous, rare antique book for any collector.  Measures 7 1/2"x 5 1/4". Approx thickness 3/4".  Additional photos available upon request. 


Pennsylvania

The Tent On The Beach

New and Selected Poems

Small Congregations

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Special Franklin library edition with 22k gold sprayed edges and cloth interior. 

The Flowers of Evil

Natasha Trethewey

First printing. Two term U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner. Inscribed and signed.

Poems New and Selected

Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey's new and selected poems, drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, while also including new work written over the last decade.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

John Hollander

Committed to Memory *1989 edition

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The Beatles Lyrics

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Texas Rhythm -Signed, Numbered Edition

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The poetry of Robert frost

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The Tent On The Beach

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