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The perfect accessory for the fashionable poetry-lover, this necklace features the opening lines of Emily Dickinson's classic poem #1741

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<!...a...>Poets in the Parks Poets in the Parks

Selections from the acclaimed Poets in the Parks reading series, featuring some of the best younger contemporary poets.

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A Child's Anthology of Poetry A Child's Anthology of Poetry

This tenth-anniversary reissue of a timeless collection celebrates the joys of poetry for children of all ages.

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A Family of Poems A Family of Poems

The New York Times bestselling collection of children's poems edited by Caroline Kennedy.

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All Three Audio Archive Anthologies All Three Audio Archive Anthologies

For a Limited Time: Get all three Anthologies from the Academy of American Poets' Audio Archive for the reduced price of $30.

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American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volume I: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker) American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volume I: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker)

A historic anthology that rediscovers—and redefines—America's poetic heritage.

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American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volume II: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson) American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volume II: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson)

Presented in full are some of the most influential works of this century.

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American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volumes I and II) American Poetry: Twentieth Century (Volumes I and II)

Between 1900 and the end of World War II, American poetry was entirely transformed, producing a body of work of worldwide influence.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume I Audio Archive Anthology, Volume I

This collection of historic recordings spans 40 years of public readings sponsored by The Academy of American Poets.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume II Audio Archive Anthology, Volume II

The second volume in our incredibly popular Audio Archive Anthology series contains twenty-two poems read by some of contemporary poetry's most influential authors.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume III Audio Archive Anthology, Volume III

The third volume in the incredibly popular Audio Archive Anthology series features 21 poems read by some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

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Limited edition t-shirt designed by Cynthia Rowley and inspired by the poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

From the acclaimed Everyman's Library Series, a beautiful, hardbacked anthology featuring some of the best poems of all time celebrating gathering together to Eat, Drink, and Be Merry.

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Emily Dickinson Scarf Emily Dickinson Scarf

A 100% silk scarf, emblazoned with lines by Emily Dickinson.

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Four Chinese Poets: The National Tour Broadside Four Chinese Poets: The National Tour Broadside

Commemorating the 1992 U.S. tour of four esteemed Chinese poets.

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Friendship Poems Friendship Poems

A celebration of friendship from some of the best poets of the past and present, this beautiful, hardbacked anthology comes from the acclaimed Everyman's Library Series.

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Great Poets Coffee Mug Great Poets Coffee Mug

Ideal for coffee, tea, or any other hot beverage, the mugs feature artistic portraits of some of the greatest poets in the English language.

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Love Poems Love Poems

A wonderful, hardcover collection of some of the finest love poems ever written.

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Love Speaks Its Name Love Speaks Its Name

A hardbacked collection of the finest gay and lesbian love poetry throughout history, from Sappho to Muriel Rukeyser, from the acclaimed Everyman's Library Collection.

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Modern American Poetry Modern American Poetry

Edited by seasoned high school teachers and published poets, this anthology is an ideal way to introduce yourself or a loved one to some of the best American poets.

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New Voices: University and College Prizes, 1989-1998 New Voices: University and College Prizes, 1989-1998

A collection of winners of the Academy's University & College Prizes.

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Poetry Speaks to Children Poetry Speaks to Children

Poetry Speaks to Children features the best poems by the best authors along with a CD—making the engrossing and often mischievous verses come alive in the voices of many of the creators.

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Poetry Speaks, Expanded Edition Poetry Speaks, Expanded Edition

A definitive anthology featuring text and recordings from nearly fifty historic poets. Includes three bound-in audio CDs of poets reading their own work.

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Poets Forum 2008 – All Events Pass Poets Forum 2008 – All Events Pass

Three days of readings, in-depth discussions, celebrations, walking tours, and more. You will leave with a new understanding of poetry in American today.

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Shakespeare Love Mug Shakespeare Love Mug

Show that special person how much you love them with this whimsical mug featuring some of Shakespeare's eternal lines.

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The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript

The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet by presenting a range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs and memorabilia.

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The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology

An exceptional anthology for the poetry lover and the music lover, including some of the best poets working today and luminaries of the past century.

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The Poet's View DVD The Poet's View DVD

Featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Anthony Hecht, and W. S. Merwin.

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William Shakespeare Scarf William Shakespeare Scarf

This scarf, featuring some of William Shakespeare's fine sonnets, is 100% double layered silk.

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John Ashbery CD

One listens to him reading for the musicality, for the snatches of humor or twists of a phrase.

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Margaret Atwood CD

Atwood provides vivid insights into her sources and stories of her process.

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W.H. Auden CD

Recorded live at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Frank Bidart & C.K. Williams CD

Here are two poets whose work intensifies when read aloud.

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Louise Bogan CD

Presents the range and diversity of her achievement over a period of nearly a half century.

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Joseph Brodsky CD

The world seems larger in Brodsky's poetry than in anyone else's now writing.

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Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English
by Joseph Brodsky

The definitive collection of poetry in English by Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky.

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The Invisible World The Invisible World
by John Canaday

Winner of the 2001 Walt Whitman Award.

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Amy Clampitt CD

Clampitt is a genius for places, with a large, confident, humane imagination.

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Lucille Clifton & Gwendolyn Brooks CD

Captures all the conviviality between the poets and their warm interaction with the audience.

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Rita Dove & Rosanna Warren CD

Operas of celebration, love, and loss.

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Alan Dugan CD

His poems are spare, quirky, fierce, unconcessive, grudging, loving, and terribly real.

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Robert Duncan CD

Duncan is at the height of his powers at the time of this reading.

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Carolyn Forché CD

Hearing this recording proves that poems exist in a reading as much as they do on the page.

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Kamau Brathwaite & Allen Ginsberg CD

This recording presents two poets who are both oral and highly literary.

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Louise Glück CD

There is perhaps no other poet who can speak so ardently in the voice of flowers or atmospheric conditions and pull it off.

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Chapbook: The Phase After History Chapbook: The Phase After History

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A beautiful, hand-made chapbook designed and printed in an exclusive edition of two-hundred copies.

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Robert Graves CD

A representation of his poems covering a span of more than 50 years.

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Linda Gregg CD

Two readings which span a decade of her work.

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Donald Hall CD

He reads selections from the acclaimed The Alligator Bride and The Yellow Room.

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Poet's Choice Poet's Choice
by Robert Hass

A collection of the poems selected by Robert Hass during his two years as the U.S. Poet Laureate for a nationally syndicated news column.

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Robert Hass & Thom Gunn CD

This reading from two Bay Area poets gives a glimpse of both of them in mid-career.

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Robert Hayden CD

Given in the midst of his service as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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Opened Ground: Selected Poems Opened Ground: Selected Poems
by Seamus Heaney

The selected poems of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.

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Anthony Hecht CD

Hecht's work is possessed of a singular integrity, a grave moral purpose that broods on humankind entangled with history.

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John Hollander CD

A remarkable and representative selection from nine of the poet's sixteen verse collections.

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Chapbook: Three Poems Chapbook: Three Poems

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A limited-edition chapbook featuring three poems by Richard Howard, former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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Richard Howard CD

He reads three dramatic monologues based on Robert Browning's life and work.

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Selected Poems Selected Poems
by Fanny Howe

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The Lenore Marshall Award prize winning collection by one of America's leading poets, Selected Poems draws from nine of Fanny Howe's previous books of poems.

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes

860 poems from one the most influential and most beloved American poets of the 20th century.

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Randall Jarrell CD

Hear how Jarrell gained his reputation as one of this century's most astute poetry critics.

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Marilyn Hacker & June Jordan CD

A phenomenal pairing of two poets who compliment each other with their very distinct formal concerns.

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Donald Justice CD

Most of the poems from this reading appear in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Selected Poems.

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Limited Edition Broadside: Limited Edition Broadside: "There is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings"

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Each broadside is signed by Donald Justice, a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

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Galway Kinnell CD

Given shortly before he won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize.

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Carolyn Kizer & David Wagoner CD

Two important American poets brought together forty years after they studied under Stanley Kunitz, who introduces this reunion.

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Limited Edition Broadside: Limited Edition Broadside: "On a Line From Valery"

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Designed and printed in an exclusive edition of five-hundred copies.

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Kenneth Koch CD

Readings by the widely celebrated poignant humorist of the New York School.

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Yusef Komunyakaa & Sharon Olds CD

These two poets captive their audience with this remarkable reading.

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Flying at Night Flying at Night
by Ted Kooser

Selected poems by the U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Maxine Kumin CD

Rich with beautiful poems of the animal and human world.

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Stanley Kunitz CD

Kunitz's work takes on an autobiographical quality not always apparent in his books.

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Li-Young Lee & Chase Twichell CD

Previously unreleased work of two intense poets in the early stages of their careers.

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Philip Levine CD

From one of America's strongest readers.

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Audre Lorde CD

Lorde reads largely from her widely acclaimed seventh book The Black Unicorn.

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Robert Lowell & John Berryman CD

The first public reading by Berryman of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Dream Songs.

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William Matthews CD

A poet who relished the nuances and sensuality of language, food, love, and jazz.

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Heather McHugh & Gerald Stern CD

Energy, wit, inventiveness, and the element of spiritual fire fuels this lively reading.

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The Father of the Predicaments The Father of the Predicaments
by Heather McHugh

In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh's poems cut to the quick, delivering their revelations with awesome precision.

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James Merrill CD

Library Journal called Stephen Yenser's introduction to this reading "brilliant."

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Limited Edition Broadside: Limited Edition Broadside: "Returning Season"

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Signed by the Pulitzer Prize winner and former Academy Chancellor.

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W.S. Merwin CD

Merwin captured at a crucial point in his career.

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Czeslaw Milosz CD

A rich and broad selection from 30 years of the poet's work.

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Paul Muldoon & Les Murray CD

Listeners to this recording will enjoy their unique and distinctive styles as well as their adept and inventive use of language.

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Howard Nemerov CD

This reading took place during Nemerov's tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems
by Alice Notley

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A hardcover, signed copy of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Award winning collection, including poems culled from over 20 books of poetry and never before published work.

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Rules for the Dance Rules for the Dance
by Mary Oliver

For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter.

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The Leaf and The Cloud The Leaf and The Cloud
by Mary Oliver

In this book-length poem, divided into seven sections, Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery.

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George Oppen & David Ignatow CD

This unexpected pairing of poets represent two very distinct lines of poetic thought.

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Octavio Paz: A Celebration Octavio Paz: A Celebration

A letter-press chapbook printed for the poet's 80th birthday.

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Robert Pinsky CD

Pinsky emphasized the vocal experience of the art of poetry.

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The Collected Poems The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Sylvia Plath's poems were gathered, annotated and edited by Ted Hughes.

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's complete, uncensored journals appear in their entirety for the first time in this collection edited by Karin V. Kukil.

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Poe: Poems Poe: Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe

Best known for his poems tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe remains one of America's most influential poets.

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The School Among the Ruins The School Among the Ruins
by Adrienne Rich

In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Elephant Rocks Elephant Rocks
by Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan's third book of verse, Elephant Rocks shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form.

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The Niagara River: Poems The Niagara River: Poems
by Kay Ryan

Sixteenth U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Kay Ryan, offers gems of hidden wonder in The Niagara River, her sixth collection.

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Human Dark with Sugar Human Dark with Sugar
by Brenda Shaughnessy

The winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award for an Outstanding second collection.

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The Poem I Turn To The Poem I Turn To
by Jason Shinder

A collection of the poems that have influenced directors and actors. Includes a CD of actors reading their selections.

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Charles Simic CD

The poems have a lot to say to any ear which can hear their extraordinary, visionary magic.

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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
by Charles Simic

Poet Laureate Charles Simic's celebration of the life and work of artist Joseph Cornell.

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William Stafford CD

Each poem is the expression of a strong and alert sensibility.

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A Book of Love Poetry A Book of Love Poetry
by John Stallworthy

From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject.

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Limited Edition Broadside: Limited Edition Broadside: "The Beach Hotel"

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Printed for the Academy in an exclusive edition of 500 copies.

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Man and Camel Man and Camel
by Mark Strand

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The eleventh collection by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand is a toast to transience and abiding beauty.

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Mark Strand CD

The poet's incantatory style has a powerful effect on the listener.

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May Swenson CD

Swenson was one of the surest poets, clear-eyed and absolute in her delineations.

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Another Language of Flowers Another Language of Flowers
by Dorothea Tanning

Paintings by Dorothea Tanning accompanied by poetry from twelve highly esteemed poets.

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James Tate CD

Tate gave this superbly comic reading in connection with his receipt of the second Wallace Stevens Award.

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Domestic Work Domestic Work
by Natasha Trethewey

Domestic Work, the first book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey, was selected by Rita Dove for the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

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Quincy Troupe CD

Quincy Troupe reflects on the impact that blues and jazz has had on American poetry.

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Mona Van Duyn CD

Given in the year Mona Van Duyn won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Derek Walcott CD

Captures the Nobel Laureate at the outset of his career.

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Tiepolo's Hound Tiepolo's Hound
by Derek Walcott

With twenty-six of Derek Walcott's own paintings, Tiepolo's Hound is a spiritual biography and a history in verse.

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Robert Penn Warren CD

Intricate portraits of lackadaisical Southern life that move almost seamlessly into myth.

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Richard Wilbur CD

Like the poems themselves, Wilbur's performance here is flawless.

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Charles Wright & Adrienne Rich CD

This great pairing of two great poets took place on a night when each received a major prize in poetry.

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James Wright CD

A rare collection of James Wright's radiant poems of astonishment.

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