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Below is a list of new poetry titles that will be published in spring 2008 by the sponsors of National Poetry Month. Browse the list by poet, title, or press. Click on a title to get more information and a sample poem. Support your local bookseller by searching for poetry-friendly bookstores by State at the National Poetry Map, or buy the book online at Amazon.com.

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The Usable Field
by Jane Mead

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Alice James Books

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King Baby
by Lia Purpura

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Alice James Books

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The Temple Gate Called Beautiful
by David Kirby

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Alice James Books

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Elegy for the Floater
by Teresa Carson

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Cavankerry Press

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Bear
by Karen Chase

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Cavankerry Press

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A Time in Xanadu
by Lars Gustafsson
translated by John Irons

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: September 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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The Hands of the Day
by Pablo Neruda
translated by William O'Daly

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2008
Price: $17.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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Factory of Tears
by Valzhyna Mort
translated by Franz Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems
by Ruth Stone

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: August 2008
Price: $32.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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Shadow Architect
by Emily Warn

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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Rising, Falling, Hovering
by C.D. Wright

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: August 2008
Price: $22.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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Human Dark with Sugar
by Brenda Shaughnessy

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Copper Canyon Press

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The Literary Press and Magazine Directory

edited by CLMP

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2005
Price: $19.95
Press: Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

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Death's Homeland
by Dragan Dragojlovic
translated by Stanislava Lazarevic

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Press: Curbstone Press

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Baghdad Mon Amour
by Salah Al Hamdani
translated by Sonia Alland

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Press: Curbstone Press

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Shadow Mountain
by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $15.95
Press: Four Way Books

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National Anthem
by Kevin Prufer

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $15.95
Press: Four Way Books

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Letters to a Stranger
by Thomas James
edited by Lucie Brock-Broido, Mark Doty

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: July 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Matter of Fact
by Eamon Grennan

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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New European Poets

edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer
translated by Various

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $18.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Art of the Poetic Line
by James Longenbach
edited by Charles Baxter

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $12.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Nettles
by Venus Khoury Ghata
translated by Marliyn Hacker

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Modern Life
by Matthea Harvey

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $14.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Another World Instead
by William Stafford
edited by Fred Marchant

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $26.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Elegy
by Mary Jo Bang

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $20.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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Colosseum
by Katie Ford

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Graywolf Press

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The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems
by Indran Amirthanayagam

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Hanging Loose Press

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Winter Journey
by Tony Towle

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Hanging Loose Press

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The Virgin Formica
by Sharon Mesmer

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March, 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Hanging Loose Press

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Theories of Falling
by Sandra Beasley

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: New Issues Press

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The Headless Saints
by Myronn Hardy

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: New Issues Press

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The Translator's Diary
by Jon Pineda

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: New Issues Press

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Causeway
by Elaine Sexton

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: New Issues Press

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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
by Mark Yakich

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $18.00
Press: Penguin

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Satin Cash
by Lisa Russ Spaar

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: Persea Books

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A Metaphorical God
by Kimberly Johnson

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Persea Books

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rimertown/an atlas
by Laura Walker

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of California Press

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Gertrude Stein: Selections
by Gertrude Stein
edited by Joan Retallack

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $19.95
Press: University of California Press

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Selected Poems, 1945-2005
by Robert Creeley
edited by Benjamin Friedlander

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $21.95
Press: University of California Press

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A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond
by Henia and Ilona Karmel
edited by Fanny Howe
translated by Arie A. Galles and Warren Niesluchowski

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $16.95
Press: University of California Press

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It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006
by Leslie Scalapino

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of California Press

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The Poems of Mao Zedong
by Mao Zedong
edited by Willis Barnstone
translated by Willis Barnstone

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: July 2008
Price: $24.95
Press: University of California Press

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The Floating Bridge
by David Shumate
edited by Deborah Meade

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: University of Pittsburgh Press

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The Endarkenment
by Jeffrey McDaniel
edited by Deborah Meade

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Woman Reading to the Sea
by Lisa Williams

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $24.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets

edited by Josephine Hart

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $26.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
by Marie Howe

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $23.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology

edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $29.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

translated by Simon Armitage

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $25.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $24.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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The Wave-Maker
by Elizabeth Spires

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: July 2008
Price: $23.95
Press: W.W. Norton

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AGNI 66

edited by Sven Birkerts

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: Fall 2007
Price: $11.95
Press: AGNI

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The American Poetry Review

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March/April 2008
Price: $4.25
Press: American Poetry Review

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Special Orders
by Edward Hirsch
edited by Deb Garrison

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Press: Alfred K. Knopf

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In Praise of the Unfinished
by Julia Hartwig
edited by Deb Garrison
translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $25.00
Press: Alfred K. Knopf

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The One-Strand River
by Richard Kenney
edited by Deb Garrison

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: January 2008
Price: $26.95
Press: Alfred K. Knopf

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A Phone Call to the Future
by Mary Jo Salter
edited by Ann Close

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $36.95
Press: Alfred K. Knopf

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Mission Work
by Aaron Baker

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $12.95
Press: Houghton Mifflin

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Humanimal
by Bhanu Kapil

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: Fall 2008
Press: Kelsey Street Press

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AERODROME ORION
by Susan Gevirtz

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: Fall 2008
Press: Kelsey Street Press

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Newcomer Can't Swim
by Renee Gladman

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: December 2007
Price: $16.95
Press: Kelsey Street Press

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The Note She Left
by Susan Hahn

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $13.95
Press: Northwestern University Press

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Fuchsia in Cambodia
by Roy Jacobstein

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Northwestern University Press

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We Bed Down into Water
by John Rybicki

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $13.95
Press: Northwestern University Press

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Quickly Changing River
by Meena Alexander

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Northwestern University Press

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The Extremities
by Timothy Kelly

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $15.95
Press: Oberlin College Press

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Meaning a Cloud
by J.W. Marshall

Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $15.95
Press: Oberlin College Press

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Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
by Frank Bidart
edited by Jonathan Galassi

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 4/8/2008
Price: $22.00
Press: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Eternal Enemies: Poems
by Adam Zagajewski
edited by Jonathan Galassi
translated by Clare Cavanagh

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 4/1/2008
Price: $23.00
Press: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected
by August Kleinzahler
edited by Jonathan Galassi

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 4/8/2008
Price: $25.00
Press: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Fidelity: Poems
by Grace Paley
edited by Jonathan Galassi

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 9/26/2008
Price: $22.00
Press: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Elephants & Butterflies
by Alan Michael Parker

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: BOA Editions

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The Fortieth Day
by Kazim Ali

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: BOA Editions

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The Boatloads
by Dan Albergotti

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: BOA Editions

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Nomina
by Karen Volkman

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: BOA Editions

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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs
by Adonis
translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: July 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: BOA Editions

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How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History
by Liz Beasley
edited by Bertha Rogers

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: Bright Hill Press

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The Lily Poems
by Liz Rosenberg
edited by Bertha Rogers

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $8.00
Press: Bright Hill Press

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Picking Up
by Evelyn Duncan
edited by Bertha Rogers

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $8.00
Press: Bright Hill Press

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The Cut Worm
by Douglas Korb
edited by Bertha Rogers

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $8.00
Press: Bright Hill Press

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The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

edited by Michael Rothenberg

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: November 2007
Price: $49.95
Press: Wesleyan University Press

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Zong!
by M. NourbeSe Philip, as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Press: Wesleyan University Press

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Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
by Paula Bohince

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: July 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: Sarabande Books, Inc.

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Want
by Rick Barot

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $13.95
Press: Sarabande Books, Inc.

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Property
by Julie Agoos

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: Ausable Press

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The Pear As One Example: New and Selected Poems
by Eric Pankey

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Ausable Press

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Alpha Zulu
by Gary Copeland Lilley

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: Ausable Press

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Tau and Journey to the End
by Philip Lamantia and John Hoffman

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $12.95
Press: City Lights Publishers

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State of Exile: Pocket Poets Number 58
by Cristina Peri Rossi
translated by Marilyn Buck

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: City Lights Publishers

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The Romance of Happy Workers
by Anne Boyer

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Saltwater Empire
by Raymond McDaniel

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Things I Must Have Known
by A. B. Spellman

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Rounding the Human Corners
by Linda Hogan

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Isle of the Signatories
by Marjorie Welish

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu
by Eugen Jebeleanu
translated by Matthew Zapruder and Radu Ioanid

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Coffee House Press

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Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
by Sean Hill

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of Georgia Press

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Hardscrabble
by Kevin McFadden

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of Georgia Press

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Field Folly Snow
by Cecily Parks

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of Georgia Press

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Boy
by Patrick Phillips

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of Georgia Press

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The History of Anonymity
by Jennifer Chang

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: University of Georgia Press

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The Best American Poetry 2008

edited by Charles Wright (Guest Editor), David Lehman (Series Editor)

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: September 2008
Price: $16.00
Press: Scribner

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Letters of Transit
by Theodore Worozbyt

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $14.95
Press: University of Massachusetts Press

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Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition
by Gabriela Mistral
edited by Randall Couch
translated by Randall Couch

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $25.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
by Connie Voisine

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Blessings for the Hands
by Matthew Schwartz

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $14.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer: A Bilingual Edition
by Jacint Verdaguer
edited by Ronald Puppo
translated by Ronald Puppo

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: November 2007
Price: $29.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Tricks of the Light: New and Selected Poems
by Vicki Hearne
edited by John Hollander

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: September 2007
Price: $25.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems, a Bilingual Edition
by Guy Goffette
edited by Marilyn Hacker
translated by Marilyn Hacker

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: October 2007
Price: $26.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Chameleon Hours
by Elise Partridge

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: University of Chicago Press

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Black Dog, Black Night

edited by Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover
translated by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: February 2008
Price: $18.00
Press: Milkweed Editions

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Hallelujah Blackout
by Alex Lemon

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $15.00
Press: Milkweed Editions

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With Mouths Open Wide: New and Selected Poems
by John Caddy

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $18.00
Press: Milkweed Editions

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River of Words: Young Poets & Artists on the Nature of Things

edited by Pamela Michael, with an introduction by Robert Hass

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $18.00
Press: Milkweed Editions

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Firefly Under the Tongue
by Coral Bracho
translated by Forrest Gander

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: New Directions

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The Long Fault
by Jay Rogoff

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $45.00
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight
by Alessandra Lynch

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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Sex at Noon Taxes
by Sally Van Doren

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $17.95
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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Glory River
by David Huddle

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $45.00
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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The House of Marriage
by Erin Hanusa

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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Creatures of a Day
by Reginald Gibbons

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $45.00
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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Litanies Near Water
by Paula Closson Buck

Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 2008
Price: $16.95
Press: Louisiana State University Press

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