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Darwin: A Life in Poems
by Ruth Padel
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 9 Oct 2012
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| This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist. |
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Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
by Harold Schechter (editor), Kurt Brown (editor)
Hardcover: 6 Sep 2011
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| A spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. |
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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
by Kay Ryan
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 12 Apr 2011
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| A major event in American poetry: The poet’s own selection of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a stunning retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of powerful new poems. |
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Selected Poems
by Amy Clampitt
Paperback: 12 Oct 2010
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| Here is a treasure of Amy Clampitt's verse, for those who are reading her for the first time, as well as for those who have long admired her. |
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The Ada Poems
by Cynthia Zarin
Hardcover: 21 Sep 2010
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| A dazzling story of obsessive love emerges in Cynthia Zarin's luminous new book inspired and inhabited by the title character of Nabokov’s novel Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, who was the lifelong love of her half brother, Van. |
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Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
Paperback: 8 Jun 2010
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| An exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine. |
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Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Campbell McGrath
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2009
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| From the inimitable Campbell McGrath comes an epic poem of George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who wandered the prairie alone for sixteen days. |
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Inflorescence
by Sarah Hannah
Hardcover: 1 Oct 2007
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| Sarah Hannah follows her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir-in-verse for her mother, Boston Expressionist painter Renee Rothbein, and their intense relationship in which they struggle with Rothbein’s mental illness and eventual death from cancer. |
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