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1	How Did I Get to Be 40: & Other Atrocities more books like this by Judith Viorst add to wishlist And so you've reached that time in your life when you're starting to pick investments over adventure, clean over scenic, comfortable over intense; when, even though in your heart of hearts you're only seventeen, the rest of you is (how did it happen?) forty. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Understanding Poetry more books like this by Cleanth Brooks (Editor), Robert Penn Warren add to wishlist A complete introduction to British and American poetry, from the 16th century to present. see all copies from £5.24! new only from £35.64!
3	Turtle Island more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Love Is a Dog from Hell more books like this by Charles Bukowski add to wishlist see all copies from £7.10! new only from £7.10! \| first editions
5	The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke more books like this by Theodore Roethke add to wishlist This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners "The Walking, Words For The Wind," and "The Far Field." see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.88! \| first editions
6	The End of Beauty more books like this by Jorie Graham add to wishlist Graham's third book of poetry explores the reality of belief. see all copies from £5.79! new only from £9.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Shelley: Selected Poetry more books like this by Professor Percy Bysshe Shelley add to wishlist Shelley's poetry has gone in and out of fashion since his death in 1822--first considered immature, excessive, and even incoherent but later judged by critics to be among the great poems of the English language. At its best, his poetry is unparalleled for its range of metrical experimentation, its moral rigor, and its lush, sensual imagery. He has ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.98! \| first editions
8	The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language more books like this by Francis Turner Palgrave add to wishlist Palgrave's intention in compiling his anthology in the 1860s was to collect the finest lyrical poems in the English language. The measure of his success is the great critical acclaim his volume won, and the fact that his name is still synonymous for many with English verse. This new edition of the anthology, the first for 30 years, provides ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968 more books like this by Louise Bogan add to wishlist Five decades of Bogan's distinguished poetry. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.98! \| first editions
10	The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown more books like this by Sterling Allen Brown add to wishlist Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, and one of the most important American poets, Sterling A. Brown was a contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer; as a part of this group, and individually, he has been instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folklife to readers all over the world. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Near the Window Tree: Poems and Notes more books like this by Karla Kuskin add to wishlist The author shares a selection of her poetry and reflects on her influences and creative process. Illustrated with b&w drawings. see all copies from £10.33! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Axe Handles: Poems more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. "In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand." In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji's, Gary Snyder continues: And my son a handle, ... see all copies from £4.99! new only from £5.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 more books like this by Robert Creeley add to wishlist Offers poems written from the 1940s through the 1970s that reveal the development of the author's style. see all copies from £6.04! new only from £14.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	How does a poem mean?. more books like this by John Ciardi add to wishlist see all copies from £8.10! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	High Windows more books like this by Philip Larkin add to wishlist Poems providing a range of urban and suburban provincial landscapes, social commentary with a satirical edge, and stoic wit. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
16 view cover	Collected Poems 1919-1976 more books like this by Allen Tate add to wishlist One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past--in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In "Ode to the Confederate ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £5.91! \| first editions
17 view cover	Selected poems more books like this by Robert Creeley add to wishlist Two hundred poems from over four decades. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £15.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame more books like this by Charles Bukowski add to wishlist see all copies from £6.25! new only from £6.25! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from £5.05! new only from £6.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Collected poems 1947-1980 more books like this by Allen Ginsberg (Preface by) add to wishlist A definitive collection of the work of the major poet of the Beat Generation. see all copies from £5.87! new only from £12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 more books like this by Denise Levertov add to wishlist Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical ... see all copies from £4.12! new only from £4.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Dangling in the tournefortia more books like this by Charles Bukowski add to wishlist see all copies from £5.10! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
23 view cover	Poems of passion more books like this by Ella Wheeler Wilcox add to wishlist Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion (1883), and her autobiography, The Worlds and I was published in 1918 shortly before her death. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. She ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980 more books like this by Erlene Stetson (Editor) add to wishlist Collects a wide range of poetry by Black women writers including Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. see all copies from £5.61! first editions
25 view cover	Myths & Texts more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from £3.21! new only from £4.85! \| signed copies \| first editions

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