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9781604860627 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2009, cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9781604865219 | Pm Pr, May 1, 2012, cover price $15.95

Miscellaneous:

9781604861655 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2009, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life. Revealing, hilarious, and peppered with sly takes on the ins and outs of contemporary American poetry (chapters include "The Silence of the Iambs," "The Revisionarium, Ask Dr...read more

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9781936747276 | Sarabande Books, March 20, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life.

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Product Description: Book by Hughes, Arthur J.

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9780026445603 | 3 edition (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, June 1, 1974), cover price $6.56 | also contains Sara Teasdale: Woman and Poet | About this edition: Book by Hughes, Arthur J.

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Hardcover:

9780312640248 | St Martins Pr, January 29, 2013, cover price $29.99

Paperback:

9781250043443 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 4, 2014), cover price $18.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452611853 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 25, 2013), cover price $39.99
9781452661858 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 25, 2013), cover price $29.99

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By George Newbern (narrator)

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9781452641850, titled "American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 25, 2013), cover price $83.99

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9781442223929 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 8, 2013, cover price $37.00

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9781936182961 | Schaffner Pr Inc, February 15, 2016, cover price $29.95

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9780534160203, titled "Essential Interviewing: A Programmed Approach to Effective Communication" | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 1993, cover price $46.95 | also contains Essential Interviewing: A Programmed Approach to Effective Communication

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By Miriam Nichols (editor)

Hardcover:

9780405103988, titled "Natural History of the American Lobster" | 3 edition (Arno Pr, June 1, 1978), cover price $25.95 | also contains Natural History of the American Lobster

Paperback:

9780817358099 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $49.95

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This volume contains three works by the famous US black, lesbian poet and academic, Audre Lorde. Both 'The Cancer Journals' and 'A Burst of Light' give an insight over a ten year period of her life with cancer. 'Sister Outsider' continues her writing and documents her essays and speeches.

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9780044409557 | Rivers Oram Pr, April 9, 1996, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: This volume contains three works by the famous US black, lesbian poet and academic, Audre Lorde.

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Product Description: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery...read more

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9780393341492 | Mti rep edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 6, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.

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9780387943985 | 3 sub edition (Springer Verlag, July 1, 1995), cover price $89.99
9780387977812 | 2nd edition (Springer Verlag, June 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | also contains The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir
9780387963419 | Springer Verlag, March 11, 1987, cover price $99.00

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Product Description: Book by Davis, Forest K.

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9780912362052 | Adamant Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Davis, Forest K.

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Spanning twenty years, from the time the author, a light-skinned black women, moved into an all-white neighborhood, a journal ponders the meaning of being black in a racially divided country (view table of contents)

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9780393045444 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Spanning twenty years, from the time the author, a light-skinned black women, moved into an all-white neighborhood, a journal ponders the meaning of being black in a racially divided country

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9780393319019 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The legend that was Robert Sparks Walker began in a log cabin outside Chattanooga called Spring Frog Cabin, a humble abode built by a Cherokee naturalist in 1750. Walker would continue in the footsteps of that Cherokee to become synonymous both with Chattanooga and nature, penning thousands of articles, poems and books as a naturalist...read more
By Kyle Simpson (introduced by)

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9781626191136 | History Pr, August 20, 2013, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The legend that was Robert Sparks Walker began in a log cabin outside Chattanooga called Spring Frog Cabin, a humble abode built by a Cherokee naturalist in 1750.

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A Vietnam War veteran recalls his struggles with drugs, alcohol, and women after the war and his subsequent redemptive return to Vietnam, where he adopted a young Vietnamese girl. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780802116611 | Grove Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's life by focusing on his experience in the Vietnam War and showing how he has coped with the aftermath by turning to poetry and family.

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9780802138057 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A Vietnam War veteran recalls his struggles with drugs, alcohol, and women after the war and his subsequent redemptive return to Vietnam, where he adopted a young Vietnamese girl.

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In the first biography of this noted poet, the author describes O'Hara's insular Catholic upbringing, his bohemian lifestyle, and his brilliant career as a poet and a museum curator

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9780394571188 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In the first biography of this noted poet, the author describes O'Hara's insular Catholic upbringing, his bohemian lifestyle, and his brilliant career as a poet and a museum curator

Paperback:

9780062303417 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 13, 2014), cover price $18.99
9780060976132 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 1994), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving." Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet...read more

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9780252037108 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 14, 2012), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, .

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9780252080487 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, November 15, 2014), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, .

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Three memoirs examine the world of French politics in the sixties, explore the cross-currents of sexual obsession, and reflect on the author's experiences with cancer

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9780060156503 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Three memoirs examine the world of French politics in the sixties, explore the cross-currents of sexual obsession, and reflect on the author's experiences with cancer

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9781590512913 | Other Pr Llc, March 15, 2011, cover price $14.95
9780140105278 | Penguin USA, February 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Departures is Paul Zweig’s celebration of life and love.

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