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<<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>     sort list by author | publication date One Of A Kind Jack Micheline A book of art and writing by the American poet, Jack Micheline. One Of A Kind combines unpublished work selected from the poet's archives with rare writings from all points in his career. Open All Night New Poems Charles Bukowski Orphan Hours Poems Stanley Plumly Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. Orphic Songs Pocket Poets Number 54 Dino Campana Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous language, and strange beauty of his poetry make him as important to twentieth-century poetry as Garcia... The Other Side of the Postcard devorah major In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public appeal for poems that explored the realities of people's lives in a city as tough and tragic as it is beautiful and exhilarating. This anthology collects... The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry From the Beat poetry of the '50s to the spoken word of today, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. Like Donald Allen's epochal New American... The Pajamaist Matthew Zapruder “Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his... Paroles Pocket Poets Number 9 Jacques Prevert Selected Poems In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground... Paterson William Carlos Williams The People Look Like Flowers At Last New Poems Charles Bukowski the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot.... Pier Paolo Pasolini Poet of Ashes Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Chiesi, Andrea Mancini In this book, readers will find poems that Pasolini wrote during his brief stay in New York, interviews, and an anthology of statements, reflections, and notes on his films. Pitch Poems Todd Boss With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. Place New Poems Jorie Graham In an era where distrust of human experience and its attendant accountability are pervasive, Place calls us, in poems of unusual force and beauty, to re-inhabit and make full use of a more responsive and responsible place of the human in the world. Planet News 1961—1967 First Edition Allen Ginsberg San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968). First Edition, letterpress, 16mo, 144 pages. As new in printed wrappers. <<< 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>>