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  Nine Horses: Poems (Today Show Book Club #10)

  by Billy Collins

  In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America’s Poet Laureate for 2001–2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by... (more)
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  Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare

  by Octavio Paz

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish
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  Loop

  by Anne Simpson

  By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury Beach In Loop , Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will... (more)