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This Same Sky

A poetry anthology in which 129 poets from sixty-eight different countries celebrate the natural world and its human and animal inhabitants.

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The Poetry of Zen

Presents a collection of Zen poetry from the beginning of Zen Buddhism to the twentieth century and includes works and short biographies of poets such as Lao Tzu, Han Shan, Li Po, and Dogen Kigen.

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Poems to Read

An anthology of poetry that emphasizes the actual pleasures of reading poems, including hearing the poem read out loud, talking about it, sharing it with others, and taking excitement or comfort from

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It's a Woman's World

An anthology of poetry by twentieth-century women from around the world including, Sylvia Plath, Nigar Hanim, Sonia Sanchez, and Nellie Wong.

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An Invitation to Poetry

Contains a collection of two hundred poems and accompanying DVD that features twenty-seven Favorite Poem Project documentaries as seen on PBS read by a cross-section of the American populace, each spe

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Selected Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Presents English translations of twenty short stories by nineteenth-century Russian author Anton Chekhov.

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The Aeneid

Virgil

A modern translation of Virgil's classic epic poem, "The Aeneid," in which Aeneas, the future founder of Rome, embarks from the ruins of Troy on a treacherous journey toward a new home.

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The Odyssey

Homer

A verse translation of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," in which Odysseus struggles to make his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War; includes an extensive introduction, three maps, a selected bibl

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The Essential Haiku

Haiku and other poems by three Japanese poets of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Blushing

Presents more than sixty poems and letters of love by such writers as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, and Rumi, covering the beginnings of love, its duration, its end, and remembrance.

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