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According to Alan Watts, “The whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.” Poetry is how we explore the liminal space between feeling and rationality, knowledge and understanding. For some, poetry is the language of the Divine consciousness. For others, it is the purest way of expressing their inner selves and experiences. Finding new ways to think and speak about our truth can bring us to a closer understanding of each other and the meaning of our existence.

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Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012

The final volume of poems by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice. Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet.

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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.

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The Inferno of Dante (Bilingual Edition)

This widely praised version of Dante’s masterpiece is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors.

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American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity

Essays discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, and Donald Hall.

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Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems

A new collection of poetry encompasses autobiographical works, the relationships between fathers and sons, and unfulfilled longings.

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More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales

Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career.

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Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved―W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more―while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his own mortality.

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Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry

This collection contains some of Bly’s seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado, Stafford and others.

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Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers.

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Dante

History, literature, love, and religion come together in this graceful biography of the world's most revered and influential poet. Anyone in search of a brief but eloquent guide to the life of the Florentine master should not hesitate to turn to this book.

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