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1) The prophet
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"Written in 1923 by philosopher Kahlil Gibran, and translated into more than forty languages, The Prophet is as enduring as it is popular. The short yet profound discourses on aspects of life and the human condition, including love, children, work, laws, pain and death, are ever more fitting as our daily lives become increasingly cluttered and chaotic. This beautiful collector's eidtion is illustrated throughout with stunning images which capture...
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American poets continuum volume 90
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English
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It's a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he might only be found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at all. But there is a vanishing point, where anyone having entered the distance must disappear entirely without hope of his ever returning, leaving only the memory of his ever having been. But then there is fiction, so that one can never really be sure if one is remembering...
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vii, 82 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent. James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, 'fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent' (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written...
4) 73 poems
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91 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems. This is the final volume in Liveright's reissue of Cummings's individual volumes of poetry, with texts and settings based on E.E. Cummings: The Complete Poems 1904-1962.
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New Directions paperbook volume 56
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xxxv, 182 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
15) Poems
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Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has, captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated.
Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It's not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and bestselling poets to this very day.
16) Selected poems
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Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's...
17) Chicago Poems
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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...
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Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 — 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth...
19) Invasive species
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"In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for unseen victims of discriminatory foreign (read: immigration) policy: migrants, refugees--the displaced. Helal transfers lived experiences of dislocation and relocation onto the reader by obscuring borders...
20) Fuel: poems
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American poets continuum volume 47
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English
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A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing", "Fuel" covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.
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