Poetry, General
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Paperback
ISBN: 087685191x
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
The Conservationist
Paperback
ISBN: 0140047166
Mehring, a wealthy, dominating South African industrialist moves to preserve his way of life, his power, and his possessions in the face of massive injustice and suffering, changing times, and death
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Hardcover
ISBN: 0151686572
A collection of T. S. Eliot's poems which concern cats including Mr. Mistoffelees, and Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Paperback
ISBN: 038509423x
Provides a description of the author as well a collection of her poems and letters
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
Paperback
ISBN: 0811200914
Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York
I Six Non Lectures
Paperback
ISBN: 0674440102
The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:
1. i & my parents
2. i & their son
3. i & selfdiscovery
4. i & you & is
5. i & now & him
6. i & am & santa claus
These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e.e. cummings. Together, it forms a good introduction to the work of e.e. cummings.
One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese
Love and the Turning Year
Paperback
ISBN: 0811201791
Assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation
Harvest Poems
1910-1960
Paperback
ISBN: 0156391252
A collection of the author's poems including selections from previously published books including Chicago and Smoke and Steel
John Brown's Body
Paperback
ISBN: 092958726x
An American folk-epic which depicts the events of the Civil War
