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Poetry
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Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.
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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
The atom, a tuna, laziness, love--the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Margaret Sayers Peden's selection is by far the most extensive yet to appear in English.
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Poems and Songs
Leonard Cohen
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved...
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The Best of It
New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan's recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet: her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from...
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Compression & Purity
Spotlight Series Number 5
Will Alexander
African American surrealism that extends from the ocean floor to the outer reaches of space.
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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
Pocket Poets Number 14, 50th Anniversary Edition
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works. This special fiftieth-anniversary edition of Kaddish & Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by...
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The 100 Best African American Poems
Nikki Giovanni
Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and...
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In Search of Small Gods
Jim Harrison
Now in paperback, Jim Harrison's best-selling poetry book In Search of Small Gods is where birds and humans converse, autobiographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight.
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Almond Blossoms and Beyond
Mahmoud Darwish
The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world...
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Stranger in Town
Cedar Sigo
Redolent of Wieners, Whalen, and Lamantia, Stranger in Town
is the second coming of the SF Renaissance.
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In Danger
A Pasolini Anthology
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jack Hirschman
In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Poems of the Night
A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
Jorge Luis Borges, Efrain Kristal, Suzanne Jill Levine
An initial offering from a new series of thematically edited collections of Borges' poems & prose that is certain to bring English readers much deeper into the universe of the Head Librarian. The poems of this volume span Borges' lifetime and focus on...
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Solar Poems
Homero Aridjis
Visionary poems by Mexico's famed poet-activist
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Trance Archive
New and Selected Poems
Andrew Joron
Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.
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The Rose of Time
New and Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)
Bei Dao
A selection from the lifework of the internationally renowned poet Bei Dao, who is "like reading Chekhov or Turgenev reflected in a porcelain bowl" (The Times [London]). in the mirror there is always this moment this moment leads to the door of...
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