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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $9.95
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
Read by the... Read more >
A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $9.95
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
Read by the... Read more >
Ballistics
Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $24.00
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >
Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $24.00
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >
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Burns: Poems
Written by Robert Burns
Edited by Gerard Carruthers
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $12.50
The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume.
With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later... Read more >
Written by Robert Burns
Edited by Gerard Carruthers
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $12.50
The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume.
With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later... Read more >
The Divine Comedy
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume)
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery... Read more >
Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $14.95
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic... Read more >
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 1994
Price: $25.95
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 1994
Price: $25.95
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. Read more >
Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Read more >
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >
Haiku Mind
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
