Selected poems

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Donald Hall

Spanning the entire career of the celebrated American poet, a collection of 226 works represents sixty years of poetic endeavor, including recent poems and a CD containing readings by the author.

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Herbert Morris

"Herbert Morris gathers fifteen poems in both of his signature modes, the dramatic monologue and the meditative reverie. The poet's tone is elegiac, his subjects drawn from history and his own early life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Charles Bukowski

in this placethere are the dead, the deadly and the dying.there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of thecross.the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadowon the wall before me.my lovewhat is left of itnow must crawlto wherever it can crawl.the strongest know that death is finaland the happiest are those gifted with theshortest journey.

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Jean Gallagher

"This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read - one arrives slightly out of breach. These poems are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking."--Jacket.