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1. Birthday Letters ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ted Hughes / Farrar Straus & Giroux / February 1998
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2. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Edward Hirsch / Harcourt Brace / April 1, 1999
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3. The Sounds of Poetry : A Brief Guide ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Robert Pinsky / Farrar Straus & Giroux / September 1998
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4. Letters to a Young Poet ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Rainer Maria Rilke, et al / W.W. Norton & Company / February 1994
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5. A Poetry Handbook ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Mary Oliver / Harcourt Brace / January 1995
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6. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Helen Hennessy Vendler / Belknap Pr / November 1997
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7. The Practice of Poetry : Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Robin Behn(Editor), et al / HarperCollins (paper) / September 1992
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8. Collected Poems 1920-1954 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Eugenio Montale, Jonathan Galassi (Translator) / Farrar Straus & Giroux / October 1998
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9. The Inferno of Dante : A New Verse Translation ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Dante Alighieri, et al / Noonday Pr / April 1996
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10. Illuminations ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (Designer) / Schocken Books / December 1985
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11. Robert Frost : A Life ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jay Parini / Henry Holt & Company, Inc. / April 1999
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12. Aristotle's Poetics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Aristotle, et al / Hill & Wang Pub / June 1989
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13. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Richard Holmes / Pantheon Books / March 1999
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14. Homer/the Iliad (Classics on Cassette) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Robert Fagles(Translator), Derek Jacobi (Reader) / Penguin Audiobooks / June 1992
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15. The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Robert Graves / Noonday Pr / July 1997
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16. Poemcrazy : Freeing Your Life With Words ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge / Crown Pub / April 1997
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17. Tales from Ovid ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ovid, Ted Hughes (Editor) / Farrar Straus & Giroux / December 1997
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18. Le Ton Beau De Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Douglas R. Hofstadter / Basic Books / May 1998
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19. Arden Shakespeare Complete Works : Complete Series ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Richard Proudfoot(Editor), et al / Brooks/Cole Pub Co / September 1998
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20. Shakespeare in Love : The Love Poetry of William Shakespeare ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William Shakespeare / Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap) / December 1998
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21. Robert Frost Reads : The Road Not Taken, the Pasture, Birches, Death of a Hired Man, Mending Wall and Other of His Poems/Audio Cassettes ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Robert Frost / Caedmon Audio Cassette / March 1992
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22. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Harold Bloom / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / April 1997
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23. Stalking the Wild Pendulum : On the Mechanics of Consciousness ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Itzhak Bentov / Inner Traditions Intl Ltd / March 1988
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24. Byron : Child of Passion, Fool of Fame ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Benita Eisler / Knopf / April 1999
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25. The Golden Gate : A Novel in Verse ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Vikram Seth, et al / Vintage Books / June 1991
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26. Complete Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William Shakespeare / Dover Pubns / January 1991
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27. Haiku Handbook : How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William J. Higginson, Penny Harter / Kodansha International / March 1992
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28. Medea (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Euripides, Rex Warner (Translator) / Dover Pubns / May 1993
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29. Stranger Music : Selected Poems and Songs ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Leonard Cohen / Vintage Books / November 1994
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30. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. : Teaching Great Poetry to Children ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kenneth Koch / Vintage Books / April 1990
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31. The Last Avant-Garde: The Poets of the New York School and the Dynamics of Creativity ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

David Lehman / Doubleday / September 15, 1998
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32. Seamus Heaney ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Helen Hennessy Vendler / Harvard Univ Pr / November 1998
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33. The Triggering Town : Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Richard Hugo / W.W. Norton & Company / August 1992
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34. Beowulf : A Dual-Language Edition ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Howell D. Chickering(Editor), H. Jr. Chickering / Anchor / March 11, 1977
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35. The New Book of Forms : A Handbook of Poetics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Lewis Turco / University Press of New England / October 1986
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36. The Silent Woman : Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Janet Malcolm / Vintage Books / February 1995
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37. The Epic of Gilgamesh ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Maureen Gallery Kovacs / Stanford Univ Pr / December 1989
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38. Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Beowulf, Robert Kay Gordon (Translator) / Dover Pubns / October 1992
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39. The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Dorothy Parker / Modern Library / September 1994
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40. Rhymes Reason : A Guide to English Verse ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

John Hollander / Yale Univ Pr / September 1989
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41. Sophocles I : Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Sophocles, et al / University of Chicago Press / February 1992
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42. Letters to a Young Poet (Classic Wisdom Collection) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Rainer Maria Rilke, et al / New World Library / April 1992
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43. Dore's Illustrations for 'Paradise Lost' (Dover Pictorial Archives Series) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Gustave Dore, John Milton / Dover Pubns / October 1993
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44. Poetry for Cats : The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Henry Beard, Gary Zamchick (Illustrator) / Villard Books / November 1994
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45. Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America, 96) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Wallace Stevens, et al / Library of America / October 1997
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46. Best Words, Best Order : Essays on Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Stephen Dobyns / St. Martin's Press / July 1997
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47. Monkey/Folk Novel of China ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ch'Eng-En Wu, et al / Grove Press / April 1994
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48. Homer's the Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Homer, et al / Barrons Educational Series / November 1984
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49. Omeros ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Derek Walcott / Noonday Pr / June 1992
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50. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Alex Preminger(Editor), T.V.F. Brogan (Editor) / Princeton Univ Pr / May 1993
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51. Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson : Tales from Norse Mythology ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jean I. Young(Translator), et al / Univ California Press / June 1964
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52. Sappho : A New Translation ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Mary Barnard, Mary Bernard / Univ California Press / May 1988
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53. The Odyssey (Everyman's Library) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Homer, et al / Knopf / October 1992
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54. Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary : A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases, and Constructions in the Works of the Poet ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Alexander Schmidt / Dover Pubns / May 1985
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55. The Erotic Poems : The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies (Penguin Classics) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ovid, Peter Green (Editor) / Penguin USA (Paper) / February 1983
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56. Metamorphoses ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ovid, et al / Viking Pr / September 1987
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57. Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ovid, et al / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / June 1998
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58. Seeds from a Birch Tree; Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Clark Strand / Hyperion / July 1997
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59. Angels in America : A Gay Fantasia on National Themes : Part One : Millennium Approaches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Tony Kushner / Theatre Communications Group / April 1993
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60. Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Mary Caroline Richards / Wesleyan Univ Pr / April 1989
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61. Lysistrata (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Aristophanes / Dover Pubns / October 1994
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62. Memoirs (Penguin 20th Century Classics) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Pablo Neruda / Viking Pr / July 1992
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63. More Than Cool Reason : A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

George Lakoff, Mark Turner / University of Chicago Press / May 1989
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64. The Art and Craft of Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Michael J. Bugeja / Writers Digest Books / February 1994
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65. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Paul Fussell / McGraw Hill College Div / December 1979
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66. The Poems of Emily Dickinson : Variorum Edition ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin (Editor) / Belknap Pr / October 1998
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67. Finding What You Didn't Lose : Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making (Inner Workbook.) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

John Fox / Putnam Pub Group (Paper) / September 1995
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68. The Awakening of Intelligence ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jiddu, Krishnamurti / Harper San Francisco / April 1987
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69. Aeschylus One Oresteia, Agamemnon, the Libation Be ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Aeschylus, Richmond Lattimore (Designer) / University of Chicago Press / December 1983
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70. Love in Vain : A Vision of Robert Johnson ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Alan Greenberg, Martin Scorsese (Designer) / Da Capo Pr / April 1994
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71. The Allegory of Love : A Study in Medieval Tradition ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

C. S. Lewis / Oxford Univ Press / November 1985
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72. Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms : 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

David Lehman(Editor) / Univ of Michigan Pr / September 1996
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73. Phonics Through Poetry : Teaching Phonemic Awareness Using Poetry ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz / Scott Foresman & Co / September 1998
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74. Poetry, Language, Thought. ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Martin, Heidegger, Albert Hofstadter (Translator) / HarperCollins (paper) / December 1985
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75. The Language of Life : A Festival of Poets ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Bill D. Moyers, et al / Main Street Books / April 1996
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