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  • A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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    A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti's sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind, written forty years later, in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year.

  • Diaries of a Young Poet

    Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow, Michael Winkler

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    "In the diaries [Rilke] kept from 1898 to 1900, now translated for the first time . . . the overall impression is that of a genius just coming into his own powers."—Boston Phoenix

  • Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose

    Steven Biel

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    In the ninety years since the Titanic sank, countless sermons and editorials, poems, songs and ads, socialists and chauvinists, Christians, reformers, anarchists, and pitchmen have drawn on the power of the century's worst disaster to move their audience.

  • Singularity: Poems

    Greg Glazner

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    "[Glazner] manages to locate a redemptive grace in this world while writing from the very thick of it."—Santa Fe New Mexican

  • The Country without a Post Office: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

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    "Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets."—John Ashbery