 | Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 Must read for all aspiring poets. Not just about how to write, but more importantly, how to live - how to really see and feel. Not poetry, but Rilke is my favorite poet, so I had to include it!
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 | The Essential Rilke by Galway Kinnell
Buy new: $10.26 / Used from: $3.08 What can I say...Rilke at his lyrical best! A great introduction to this amazing poet and his unique voice. Don't miss the selections from "Sonnets to Orpheus" and the entire "Duino Elegies."
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 | E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $24.50 To read cummings is to fall in love with the English language. His poems are a feast for the ears and the eyes. The variety and sheer number of poems in this huge book is astounding.
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 | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.81 Dickinson's use of language and her subject matter-both personal and universal-make her poems as relevant today as in the 19th c. Read and be swept away to realms of solemnity, beauty and mystery.
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 | The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Series) by John Donne
Buy used from: $7.03 Has all of Donne's great metaphysical love poetry and much more. Passionate, sensuous, thought provoking, even spiritual - a poet for the ages. A man could do no better than woo his love with Donne!
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 | Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition) by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.98 Brings together all of T.S. Eliot's greatest poems, including one of my personal favs - "The Hollow Men." Some of the most wonderful poetry ever written for the mind to grasp and heart to love.
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 | The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $0.12 It's not her poetry, but this largely autobiographical story is a great introduction to Plath's creative genius and tortured spirit. Very visceral, full of passion and raw emotion-like her poetry.
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 | The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $0.97 This volume includes everything Plath wrote after 1956 and shows her development as a poet and a women. The poems are strangely beautiful, angry, original and often haunting. A must have book.
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 | The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers
Buy new: $20.79 / Used from: $17.16 Robinson Jeffers is one of the most unique poets from the 20th century. His poetry is by turns somber, violent, powerful, detached and shows a reverence for transhuman beauty.
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 | The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Buy used from: $1.98 Saucy, defiant, stinging, intoxicating and liberating. Millay was a modern master of the sonnet and this volume includes many of her most memorable poems about love, death and nature.
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