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Canto general

2000
Contains the nearly three hundred poems of the fifteen-part Canto, written by twentieth-century Chilean poet Pablo Neruda between 1938 and 1950, in which he presents a visionary interpretation of Latin America.

We never speak of it

Idaho-Wyoming poems, 1889-90
2003
A series of linked poems presented as dramatic monologues that give voice to women and children living in and around the mythical frontier town of Cottonwood. Includes archival photographs and a map.

Walking the black cat

poems
1996
A collection of poems by the Pulitzer prize winning author, on his impressions of daily life.

O beautiful for spacious skies

1994
An edition of the nineteenth-century poem that was later set to music, illustrated by a noted American artist.

Ovid in English

1998
Presents a selection of writings by Roman poet Ovid, including the complete elegies from the "Amores," and "Heroides," poems of exile, and excerpts from longer works, rendered in English by a variety of translators.

Black + blues

1995
Contains a collection of poems in which the author explores the themes that are present in the history of his culture, including slavery, destruction, spirituality, and hope.

Another America

poems
1991
A collection of poetry that explores American society and our individual place.

Bellocq's Ophelia

poems
2002
A collection of poems by Natasha Trethewey which were inspired by the early 1900's photographs of E.J. Bellocq which profile prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans.

Set the ploughshare deep

a prairie memoir
2000
Timothy Murphy chronicles the experiences he has had while working on his Minnesota farm.

De mayor of Harlem

the poetry of David Henderson
1970

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