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New Poems

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofThe Color Purplegives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems inAbsolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us up to feeling and understanding with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to live life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community. In “The Same as Gold,” Walker writes of the essence of grief, and of our inherent powers of love and acceptance. In “Everyone Who Works for Me,” Walker considers, with humor and grace, the frenzy that permeates modern life—a frenzy that prevents us from seeing the beauty in everything we do until we step back and take the time to look at and comprehend ourselves and those around us. In “The Love of Bodies,” Walker elegantly expresses the gratitude and tenderness we are capable of feeling for loved ones, living and dead, and the inescapable emotional connections that bind us together. About Walker’s poetry, America has said, “In the tradition of Whitman, Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind,” and the same could be said about this astonishing new collection. Despite the hunger we cannot possess more than this: Peace in a garden of our own. —fromAbsolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

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James S. Hans

Indiana

Discusses the ethical aspects of literature.

The Value(s) of Literature

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Robert Bly

Writing on the title page, some underlining & notes in margins

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Nebraska

Poems of Twofold Consciousness

Collection of poems, selected, annotated, and translated by the American poet.

News of the Universe

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New York

Represents a collection of the poet's best work, selected from his eight previous collections, and includes a commentary on the development of his oeuvre

Selected Poems

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Tennessee

Immortal Poems of the English Language 

Illinois

Richard A. Long

There is an ex-library book there is some wear, and writing otherwise good. 

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An Anthology of Prose and Poetry

Collected pieces reveal the concerns and literary development of African American writers

Afro-American Writing

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Penelope Niven

Carl. Sandburg

Dust jacket shows some wear but book in perfect condition otherwise. 

Missouri

Adventures of a Poet

Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Carl Sandburg

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Colorado

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

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New Jersey

From Poe to the Present

A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery and on, right up to the present. In his brilliant and lucid introduction, Lehman defines the prose poem, summarizes its French heritage, and outlines its history in the United States. Included here are important works from masters of American literature, as well as poems by contemporary mainstays and emerging talents who demonstrate why the form has become an irresistible option for the practicing poet today. Great American Prose Poems is a marvelous collection, a must-have for anyone interested in the current state of the art.

Great American Prose Poems

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Smith, W. H. Staff

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Great American Poetry

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A definitive collection of more than six hundred poems by more than forty poets. Each century is richly represented, beginning with the work of Anne Bradstreet in the seventeenth century & continuing through the eighteenth century.

Anthology of American Poetry

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James Agee

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Georgia

(American Poets Project #27)

Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety . . . that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Agee?s verse takes us into the heart of his unique genius, what Robert Fitzgerald called his "sense of being . . . a raging awareness of the sensory field in depth and in detail." About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

James Agee: Selected Poems

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The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection silent. Yet the poems accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible.

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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

James S. Hans

The Value(s) of Literature

Robert Bly

News of the Universe

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

Oscar Williams

Immortal Poems of the English Language

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

Richard A. Long

Afro-American Writing

Penelope Niven; Carl. Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

David Lehman (Editor)

Great American Prose Poems

Rita Dove

Thomas and Beulah

Smith, W. H. Staff

Great American Poetry

George Gesner (Editor)

Anthology of American Poetry

James Agee

James Agee: Selected Poems

Frank X. Walker; Michelle Hite (Contribution by)

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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

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News of the Universe

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

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Immortal Poems of the English Language

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

Richard A. Long

Afro-American Writing

Penelope Niven; Carl. Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

David Lehman (Editor)

Great American Prose Poems

Rita Dove

Thomas and Beulah

Smith, W. H. Staff

Great American Poetry

George Gesner (Editor)

Anthology of American Poetry

James Agee

James Agee: Selected Poems

Frank X. Walker; Michelle Hite (Contribution by)

Turn Me Loose