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Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pond ...Show more
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
$21.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration wit ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, ...Show more
Pictures of the Gone World: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of "A Coney Island of the Mind," he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpre ...Show more
Poe : Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
Poe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and the sensuous and lyrical "Annabel Lee." This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes.
Poems by W.B. YEATS
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics clo ...Show more
Poems: Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
$38.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
A collection of his chiseled, delicate, and haunting lyrics, elegies, and sonnets, including selections from the Duino Elegies and the beloved Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by J.B. Leishman. This edition also includes Rilke's acclaimed Letters to a Young Poet. (NIA) Hardback 253pp h178mm x w108 ...Show more
Poems of the Sea by J.D. McClatchy
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind
Rimbaud: Poems by Rimbaud A
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first line ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
$29.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi's ...Show more