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Product Description: Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright’s more recent work—including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright’s moving, book-length meditation on mortality—showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death...read more
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9780374117580 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 12, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets).

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9780374533175 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets).

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Product Description: Graphic art and poems that are rueful, but never grim, offer a graceful meditation on the approach of death.
By Eric Appleby (illustrator) and Charles Wright
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9781932511864 | Sarabande Books, November 23, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Graphic art and poems that are rueful, but never grim, offer a graceful meditation on the approach of death.

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Product Description: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com)...read more
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9781154511673 | Textstream, May 5, 2010, cover price $12.22 | About this edition: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index.

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Product Description: Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright’s acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: “a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous...read more
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9780374261153 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 31, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality.

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9780374532147 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 16, 2010, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality.

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Product Description: Discover the Godly Plan for Your Life—and How It Will Improve Your Existence!Whether you’re a lifelong Christian or just finding faith, The Benefits of Living Holy will serve as an invaluable guidebook for getting in tune with the Lord...read more
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9781432740412 | Outskirts Pr, July 15, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Discover the Godly Plan for Your Life—and How It Will Improve Your Existence!

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Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9781104203672 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2009, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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9781104198718 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series...read more
By David Lehman (editor) and Charles Wright (editor)
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9780743299749 | Scribner, September 16, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry.

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Product Description: The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series...read more
By Charles Wright (editor)
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9780743299756 | Scribner, September 16, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry.

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Product Description: Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country’s most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator’s search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on “the other side of my own death...read more
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9780374531218 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 10, 2008), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country’s most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator’s search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on “the other side of my own death.

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A new collection by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality while reaffirming humanity's attempt to capture the natural world and its residents.
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9780374254278 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 25, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A new collection by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality while reaffirming humanity's attempt to capture the natural world and its residents.

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Product Description: In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"A thing is not an image"--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject--language and "the ghost of god...read more
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9780374530839 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 24, 2007, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"A thing is not an image"--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject--language and "the ghost of god.

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Product Description: After the end of something, there comes another end,This one behind you, and far away.Only a lifetime can get you to it,and then just barely. Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on "the other side of my own death...read more
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9780374189662 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 12, 2007, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: After the end of something, there comes another end,This one behind you, and far away.

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Product Description: The most decorated solder in World War I was not Sergeant Alvin York, as many believe, but a stretcher bearer named Charles Denver Barger. And Barger is just one of the legion of military medical personnel whose lifesaving feats are remembered in this inspiring volume...read more
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9780760321195 | Zenith Pr, August 15, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The most decorated solder in World War I was not Sergeant Alvin York, as many believe, but a stretcher bearer named Charles Denver Barger.

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The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems. Reprint.
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9780374529635 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 30, 2005), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems.

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Product Description: “Wright has a hunk of the ineffable in his teeth and he won’t let go. In poem after poem, he plumbs our deepest relationships with nature, time, love, death, creation. Wright’s search breaks all the barriers of time, space, action, for its dramatic narrative simply refuses to acknowledge the usual unities, as though all time were this time, all places this place and all actions one...read more
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9781932511123 | Sarabande Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: “Wright has a hunk of the ineffable in his teeth and he won’t let go.

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Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9781417974795 | Kessinger Pub Co, December 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems. 20,000 first printing.
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9780374117283 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems.

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The author of The Appalachian Book of the Dead presents a new collection of poems that resonate with humor, allure, and impatience in a world tormented by death and the dead. Reprint.
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9780374263027 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2002), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents a new collection of poems that resonate with humor, allure, and impatience in a world tormented by death and the dead.

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9780374528799 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of The Appalachian Book of the Dead presents a new collection of poems that resonate with humor, allure, and impatience in a world tormented by death and the dead.

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Product Description: Mercury House is proud to launch the NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, which celebrates the multicultural diversity of American letters by restoring to print unduly neglected modern classics of cultural identity. Our second title for this series, which will include an introduction by Ishmael Reed, is The Wig by Charles Wright...read more
By Ishmael Reed (introduced by) and Charles Wright
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9781562791278 | Mercury House, February 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mercury House is proud to launch the NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, which celebrates the multicultural diversity of American letters by restoring to print unduly neglected modern classics of cultural identity.

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Product Description: A resource for intermediate and advanced developers interested in incorporating C# into their applications, this book contains more than 400 tips and techniques. Programmers should save time, money and resources with these tested and proven tips, techniques and solutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780072193794 | McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, December 1, 2001, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A resource for intermediate and advanced developers interested in incorporating C# into their applications, this book contains more than 400 tips and techniques.

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Product Description: Learn the basics and gain the ability to master the new C# programming language with this complete book. The new C# programming language from Microsoft combines many of the object-oriented programming concepts and syntax of C++ with the ease of programming offered by Visual Basic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780766849440 | Onword Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Learn the basics and gain the ability to master the new C# programming language with this complete book.

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Product Description: This title is aimed at those learning Microsoft Visual C++ for the first time. It covers key aspects of Visual C++. The CD-ROM includes Microsoft's Visual C++ Learning Edition. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761534440 | Pap/cdr edition (Premier Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This title is aimed at those learning Microsoft Visual C++ for the first time.

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The last book in a cycle of poems that garnered the author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award takes readers in new directions, in a collection that follows Chickamauga, Black Zodiac, and Appalachia. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780374220204 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 10, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The last book in a cycle of poems that garnered the author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award takes readers in new directions, in a collection that follows Chickamauga, Black Zodiac, and Appalachia.

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9780374527730 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 9, 2001), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The last book in a cycle of poems that garnered the author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award takes readers in new directions, in a collection that follows Chickamauga, Black Zodiac, and Appalachia.

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Product Description: Visual C++ is a programming environment used to develop and compile programs or perform specific tasks, such as drawing an object onscreen. C++ is one of the staples of any programmer’s knowledge base. For this reason, owning 1001 Visual C++ Programming Tips, which covers everything from programming basics to variables, functions, and object-oriented programming, is a must! This book covers all aspects of Visual C++ programming, including the Microsoft Foundation Class Library and threads...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761527619 | Pap/cdr edition (Premier Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Visual C++ is a programming environment used to develop and compile programs or perform specific tasks, such as drawing an object onscreen.

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The last book in the third of the author's three poetic trilogies explores themes of human potential in Appalachia. By the author of the National Book Awardwinning Country Music. Reprint.
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9780374105716 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A poet reflects on his experience with his own mortality and his stunning ability to find transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary landscapes

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9780374526245 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1999), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A poet reflects on his experience with his own mortality and his stunning ability to find transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary landscapes

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