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Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genr ...Show more
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poets Poems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek li ...Show more
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie (Editor)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled sampling of them. Included here are selections from the early Greek poets - from Hesiod, Pindar and Bacchylides ...Show more
Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Poems of Gratitude by Emily Fragos (Editor)
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Poems of Gratitude is a unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many secular and spiritual forms. For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected h ...Show more
Poems of Gratitude by Emily Fragos (Editor); Penguin Random House Staff
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A literary treat for the season of harvest and thanksgiving- a unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating gratitude in its many secular and spiritual forms. For centuries poets in all the world's cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the earth and i ...Show more
Poems of London by Christopher Reid (Editor)
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A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by this storied city, from its medieval origins to the multicultural metropolis it is today. Poems of London covers a wide range of time and includes not only the pantheon of classic poets, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot, but ...Show more
Poems of New York by Elizabeth Schmidt (Editor)
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New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. All the ...Show more
Poems of Rome by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
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Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader ...Show more
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel (Editor)
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The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, ...Show more
Poems of the American West by Robert Mezey (Editor)
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In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like "The Streets of Laredo," from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as ...Show more
Poems of the Sea by J.D. McClatchy
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind