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Poetry is a fascinating use of language.

This collection invites you to meet more than 40 individual women – both real and imagined – whom you could long to know as each moves through her own life's dance.

Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war.

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work!

The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon.

Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards – including the Governor General’s Award,

"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine.

"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets." -- Billy Collins.

"Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry." —Wendell Berry.

Pulitzer Prize Winner – From one of today's best poets – a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new free

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet and wife of the poet Robert Browning, is perhaps best known for her remarkable series of 44 love poems Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Considered by many to be the quintessential American poet, Walt Whitman (1819–92) exerted a profound influence on all the American poets who came after him.

Dorianne Laux's long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets.