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  • One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year

    Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Rexroth

    Paperback

    An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.

  • Earth House Hold

    Gary Snyder

    Paperback

    Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation.

  • A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Paperback

    Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has become a modern classic. It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print.

  • The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Paperback

    The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a...

  • Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

    William Carlos Williams

    Paperback

    This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955), originally published by Random House.