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GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more
Hip Hops - Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind's long and joyous (mostly) relationship with the world's most popular alcoholic bever ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4 | Reading Level: very good
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
If and other Poems by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets Ser.
'If-' is, by British readers' choice, the most popular poem in the language. This pocket-sized selection of Rudyard Kipling's verse contains not only this classic, but many of his greatest poems, in testimony to a writer who possessed a precocious gift for rhyme and a brilliant ear for language, coupled ...Show more
Love Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington; World Collect Staff
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
"It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a univers ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
Picturehouse Poems - Poems about the Movies by Harold Schechter (Editor); Michael Waters (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon ...Show more
Poems about Trees by Harry Thomas (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrate trees. For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them--and poets have long chronicled the relationship. Poets from Homer and Virgil to Wordswort ...Show more
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert ...Show more
Rumi: Unseen Poems by Rumi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Rumi- Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism ...Show more
Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Peter Gethers (Editor); Russell Perreault (Editor)
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Category: Music | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A beautiful Pocket Poets hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of twenty-seven. His remarkable and wide-ranging career has spanned more than si ...Show more
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