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Remembrance of Things to Come
$15.00
By Edward Pols This slim and beautiful volume of poetry by Edward Pols transcends its setting in Maine, Italy, and the Europe of World War II, to speak of love and loss, life and death, and the inescapable memories of war. It is a book a thoughtful reader will come back to again and again, finding something new to contemplate in each reading. Th...
Paul Revere's Ride — Longfellow 1825
$8.99
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 Longfellow's tribute to the famous revolutionary hero begins with the stirring cadence that American schoolchildren have committed to memory for over a century. Now illustrator Ted Rand brings these vivid and beautiful lines to life as dramatically as the poet's immortal message inspires. -From the pu...
Odd Botany — Moeckel '93
Odd Botany — Moeckel '93
$14.88
By Thorpe Moeckel '93 "Thorpe Moeckel is litanist, pilgrim, sensualist, beseecher, explorer, and connoisseur of the heart's underbrush and waterways. Odd Botany gives us a language of plenitude and paradox that is 'rambunctious on the tongue' -- pop-culturally savvy, intensely lyric, and capable of an incomparably delicate tensility." - Lisa R...
Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings — Longfellow 1825
$40.00
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 No American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full-sc...
The Village Blacksmith — Longfellow 1825
$16.99
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 A contemporary envisioning of a nineteenth-century poem pairs artwork by G. Brian Karas with the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow classic.His brow is wet with honest sweat;He earns whate’er he can, And looks the whole world in the face,For he owes not any man.The neighborhood blacksmith is a quiet and unass...
The Dove of Every Meanining — Wilson '81
$12.95
By Timothy Crawford Wilson, Class of 1981 "Mr. Wilson captures the sweetness of words before they can escape and makes a spiritual wine that definitely refreshes the heart."-Steve Hemingway -From the back cover.
Open Your Eyes — Thwing '64
Open Your Eyes — Thwing '64
$25.99
By William Thwing, Class of 1964 Open Your Eyes is a collection of 70 songs, poetry and experimental Haiku-like verse written by William C. Thwing, an American military intelligence officer whose medium of choice is poetry. It represents various styles of verse created over the past 50 years. -From the publisher.
Notes from a Nomad — Snyder '77
$16.99
By Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Class of 1977 Poet Sarah Dickenson Snyder moves between worlds as traveler and teacher — from the crowded streets of Hanoi, to Istanbul, Eleuthera, Machu Picchu, and Rwanda — where a woman sets down a heavy water jug, the scar on her arm "a cracked map of what remains." Snyder's carefully observed "earthbound stories" ...
Waves from a Time-Zoned Brain — Simonds '57
$12.95
By John Simonds, Class of 1957 The rhythms and sounds of old thoughts in new settings have added to the meaning of experiences, some real, some dreamed, some a mix. All are from a brain subjected to waves of different kinds—magnetic resonance and nostalgia, a surrounding ocean, a childhood river. -From the publisher.
Footnotes to the Sun — Simonds '57
$14.95
By John Simonds, Class of 1957 In this his second book of poetry, retired Honolulu and former Washington D.C. newsman John E. Simonds explores further experiences, travels, family milestones and personal encounters. Footnotes to the Sun pursues his interests in running and reflection, while also revisiting some compass points of life. A Depressi...
What You Know in Your Hands — Poliner '82
$19.99
By Elizabeth Poliner, Class of 1982 Elizabeth Poliner's poems are of painting, literature, and music, of family, memory, and loss. Whether set in Washington, D.C., the small Connecticut town of her childhood, or the coast of Maine, these poems speak with uncommon clarity and musicality as they explore the complexity of the human heart. -From the...
Venison — Moeckel '93
Venison — Moeckel '93
$17.95
By Thorpe Moeckel, Class of 1993 Food doesn't get any more local, cosmic, primitive, tasty, or disturbing than in this book-length, lyrical-meditative poem. At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch. -From the publisher.
Laughing Cult — McCaffrey '79
$13.95
By Kevin McCaffrey, Class of 1979 Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Koni...
Prospect of Release — Mandel '71
$12.95
By Tom Mandel, Class of 1971 These 50 poems, 700 lines (neither number divisible by three), confront self, other, identity, loss, history, language and meaning through the most concrete instance we have of what poststructuralists call "an absent presence" — the death of a parent. This loss of apparent meaning (who gave you your name?) doubles (t...
Alchemy of Awakening — Hobin '82
$15.95
By Lynn Hobin, Class of 1982 Alchemy of Awakening is a window into the author's life during the time it was transformed from a carefully planned life into one more in alignment with her authentic self, and consistent with that which she came into being to do. A life-altering event was placed in her path enabling her to become conscious of univer...
Natural Sustenance — Fleck '58
$17.00
By Nick Fleck, Class of 1958 Nick Fleck is a retired high school teacher. He spends much of his time sauntering in the open spaces and woods wherever he lives, and especially in unsettled areas on Moosehead Lake in Maine. He has been influenced by the words and wandering of Thoreau and feels that he is not apart from the flora and fauna of our p...
Life Watch — Barnstone '48
Life Watch — Barnstone '48
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By Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948, Honorary Degree 1981 Life Watch: A Circle of Ninety-One Nights is an ambitious sequence of poems that begins in childhood, moves through Barnstone’s adult years, and returns to youth. The poems engage and reflect on the civil wars that the author found himself in the midst of, Mexican orphanages, the cafes and...
Cartographer of Crumpled Maps — Pérez '04
$14.99
By Jonathan Andrew Pérez, Class of 2004 Review Quotes: Jonathan Andrew Perez's The Cartographer of Crumpled Maps cleverly subverts and displaces the idyllic essence of the pastoral in service of an ethics society has consistently betrayed. The poems in this chapbook, occasionally referential yet always original, find their verve in the asymmetr...
Mexico in My Heart — Barnstone '48
$23.99
By Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948 Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the...
The Girl of the Early Race — Boe '76
$11.95
By Deborah Boe, Class of 1976 Lovers of poetry who remember Deborah Boe's critically acclaimed debut book, Mojave, will wonder why she published no subsequent book -- until now.Thomas Simmons of the University of Iowa wrote in his September 6, 1999, review of Mojave on Amazon.com: "Deborah Boe is one of the most under-rated poets in America. I h...
Songs and Dreams — Reilly '71
$18.00
By Neill Reilly, Class of 1971 There is a correlation between waking experiences in a sleep state and inner experiences in a waking state. Both involve awakened consciousness. The songs in this volume are halting attempts to put into words inner events that are experienced in a waking consciousness. Inner experiences are filtered into images, id...
The Gate of Horn — Asekoff '61
$10.95
By L.S. Asekoff, Class of 1961 Recepient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Apart from two volumes published in the 1990s, the work of L. S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three decades. Now comes a new collection from this startlingly original poet. ...
Field Work — Moeckel '93
Field Work — Moeckel '93
$19.95
Edited by Erik Reece Including Poems by Thorpe Moeckel '93 This collection of wilderness poems inspired by eastern forests includes poetry by Thorpe Moeckel, class of 1993. Hardcover.