 | The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $9.94 Frank was the master of all media--funny and sexy and so very out. Call him the Mick Jagger of poets
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 | August Zero (Western States Book Award) by Jane Miller
Buy new: $11.00 / Used from: $0.34 Jane's poems rock. Period. She's also about the hippest chick I've ever met.
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 | AnOther E.E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.98 This new take on cummings would scare your elementary school teacher. He'd be way out there like John Zorn or the RZA, but he'd be amazing.
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 | Pennsylvania Collection Agency (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Michael Burkard
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.61 I've long longed for Michael Burkard. Moody, like Blonde on Blonde or OK Computer.
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 | The Incognito Lounge (Classic Contemporaries Series) by Denis Johnson
Buy used from: $6.67 Now that he's a granola, Teva-wearing straight, you might not agree. But these poems, like his stories in Jesus' Son, are pure 70's down-and-out rockstar.
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 | The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment by W. S. Merwin
Buy new: $14.04 / Used from: $4.27 He's still gorgeous--and back then, he wrote The Lice--kind of Tim Buckley-esque.
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 | Selected Poems by Robert Creeley
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.33 You'd never guess that quiet, gentle Creeley would make this list--but look again, especially at the early poems.
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 | And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Buy new: $10.52 / Used from: $8.98 Lately, people have been passing this book around like the latest PJ Harvey disc. Not to be missed.
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 | The Bridge (Paperback 1992) by Hart Crane
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $1.19 He lived--and died--like a rockstar. The poems are intense and crazy and full of sailors. Mmmm.
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 | Beautiful Shirt (Wesleyan Poetry) by Donald Revell
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.00 Don's poems might not be loud and certainly aren't obnoxious. But they--and he--have an unmistakable allure that could fill an arena.
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