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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mind Breaths	Allen Ginsberg	Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known p…	OL102475W
Howl	Allen Ginsberg	This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.	OL102487W
Tales from the Hinterland	Caleb Puckett	Prose poems and flash fiction.	OL10332305W
Nine Horses	Billy Collins	Nine Horses, Billy Collins's first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet's career. Already in his forties when he debuted wi…	OL108868W
The last-place sports poems of Jeremy Bloom	Gordon Korman	Jeremy Bloom is offered a second chance to pull up his D- grades from the previous year in his teacher's poetry writing class. His topic is sports.	OL109560W
You come too	Robert Frost	A collection of poems chosen by Frost to be read and enjoyed by children (and their elders), including "Acquainted with the Night," "A Patch of Old Snow," "Not of School Age," and "Mending Wall."	OL1108084W
El hacedor	Jorge Luis Borges	Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer.	OL110968W
The waste land and other writings	T. S. Eliot	First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A …	OL1142233W
The complete poems and plays, 1909-1950	T. S. Eliot	Collected poems (1909-1935) -- Four quartets -- Old Possum's book of practical cats -- Murder in the cathedral -- The family reunion -- The cocktail party	OL1142263W
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot	T. S. Eliot	Thirty-one of Eliot's most influential critical essays on general literary topics, individual authors, and social and religious themes are edited in their entirety or in substantial extract by the di…	OL1142273W
Book of sketches, 1952-57	Jack Kerouac	A never-before-published book of poems by Jack Kerouac?in a deluxe packageIn 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called …	OL11588127W
Les paradis artificiels	Charles Baudelaire	Ceux qui savent s'observer eux-memes et qui gardent la memoire de leurs impressions, ceux-la qui ont su, comme Hoffmann, construire leur barometre spirituel, ont eu parfois a noter, dans l'observatoi…	OL1159124W
Circle	Victoria Chang	Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, <em>Circle</em>, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and histor…	OL11967487W
Aurora Leigh, and other poems	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social…	OL1198473W
The Mortal Storm	Phyllis Bottome	Pre-World War II Ficton. It is rebellious Fraulein Freya Toiler's birthday and she does not want to spend it with her cheeky brothers. She wants to do something special; something exciting and out of…	OL1203214W
The waker's corridor	Jonathan Thirkield	Housed in elaborate and varied formal architectures, these poems navigate the disorder and gaps left by the violence of loss.	OL13614616W
Big Talk	Paul Fleischman	A collection of poems to be read aloud by four people, with color-coded text to indicate which lines are read by which readers.	OL13677W
All-American Poem	Matthew Dickman	All American Poem plumbs the ecstatic nature of our daily lives. In these unhermetic poems, pop culture and the sacred go hand in hand. As Matthew Dickman said in an interview, he wants the “people…	OL13775154W
Poems	Percy Bysshe Shelley	A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.	OL14853463W
The Raven and Other Favorite Poems [41 poems]	Edgar Allan Poe	One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a…	OL14938077W