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Madness

By Alva

 

Like a fine wine

does the mind

Get better with age

or does it ferment

as with liquor?

 

I would love to be diagnosed

but I will not pay the fee

to be analyzed

for my madness hurts no one

I keep it to myself

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CLASSICS, COLLECTIONS, REFERENCE

 Immortal Poems of the English Language

Edited by Oscar Williams

Paperback-447 pages

The Divine Comedy

Dante

 

Paperback

 Great Short Works

of Edgar Allen Poe

Gary Richard Thompson

Paperback-576 pages

The Practice of Poetry

Edited by Robin Behn &

Chase Twichell 

Paperback-320 pages

 1968: A History In Verse

by Edward Sanders

 

Paperback-200 pages

 Above The River:

The Complete Poems

of James Wright

Paperback

 100 Selected Poems

by E.E.Cummings

Paperback-460 pages

 

 

CONTEMPORARY

 5 Degrees & Other Poems

by Nicholas Christopher

 

Paperback-94 pages

17 Love Poems With No Despair

by B.J. Ward 

Paperback-48 pages

 Ants on the Melon

By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Hardcover

 The Actual World

By Erica Funkhouser

Hardcover-85 pages

Archeology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy & Mehitabel

by Don Marquis

 

Hardcover-113 pages

 And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Paperback-84 pages

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

Edited by JD McClatchy

Paperback-560 pages

American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century

Edited by Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal

Paperback

And for Example

(Penguin Poets)

by Ann Lauterbach

(no cover graphic available)

Paperback-101 pages

Apocalyptic Narrative & Other Poems

By Rodney Jones

 

Hardcover-69 pages

Agua Santa Holy Water: Holy Water

By Pat Mora

Hardcover-130 pages

An Anthology of New American Poets

Edited by Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz & Chris Stroffolino