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Ballistics
Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $24.00
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >
Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $24.00
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
The Divine Comedy
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1955
Price: $12.95
The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. Read more >
The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
The Love Poems of Rumi
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human... Read more >
Written by Deepak Chopra
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $12.00
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human... Read more >
Haiku Mind
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
Frost: Poems
Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $12.50
rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, "... Read more >
Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $12.50
rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, "... Read more >
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Written by Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $18.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
Written by Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $18.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
