April's Featured Poetry Titles:
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Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Regular Price: $12.00
Our Price: $9.60
This collection of poetry is an account of the poet's life with Sylvia
Plath.
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Collected Poems: 1920-1954 Bi-Lingual Edition
by Eugene Montale, translated by Jonathan Galassi
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Regular Price: $40.00
Our Price: $32.00
A strong, idiomatic new translation of Italy's greatest
modern poet.
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Elegy for the Departure
by Zbigniew Herbert
Published by Ecco
Regular Price: $24.00
Our Price: $19.20
"[Herbert] is a poet with all the strengths of an Antaeus...[He] shoulders the
whole world and scope of human dignity and responsibility." -Seamus Heaney
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Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems and Poems
by Mary Oliver
Published by Beacon Press, paperback
Regular Price: $22.00
Our Price: $17.60
Oliver offers a glimpse...of her "private and natural self-something that
must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to
know [her]."
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Questions About Angels
by Billy Collins
Published by University of Pittsburgh, hardcover
Regular Price: $12.95
Our Price: $10.36
"Collins brings to mind the elegant wit of the sorely missed William
Mathews, another poet of plentitude, irony and Augustan grace." -The New
Yorker
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Sounds of Poetry
by Robert Pinsky
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, hardcover
Regular Price: $16.00
Our Price: $12.80
The American Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry
works.
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Sylvia Plath: Voice of the Poet
read by Sylvia Plath
Published by Random House, Audio Book
Regular Price: $15.95
Our Price: $12.76
Poems read by the poet herself-accompanied by a book containing the text of
the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy
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Vita Nova
by Louise Gluck
Published by Ecco Press, hardcover
Regular Price: $12.95
Our Price: $10.36
In Vita Nova, Gluck manages a terrifying act of perspective that brings into
resolution the smallest hope and the vast forces that shape it.
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