San Antonio College Library

"The original edition, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This new, revised and expanded, edition contains, in addition to the introduction, an index of titles, an index of first lines, and 113 poems not included in the earlier volume."--Jacket.

New deluxe editions of the classic Random House Value Publishing bestselling poetry series. The books all feature deluxe covers, ribbon markers, top stain, and decorative endpapers.

"Here is the first complete collection in print of all poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, including his poetry written originally in French as well as his translations from the French of such important poets as Paul Eluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire, none of which has ever before been published in the U.S. in the Beckett translations. The volume contains the English poems - including Whoroscope, his first published verse, as...

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died on March 24, 1882, at the age of seventy-five, he was the most celebrated poet in the English-speaking world, Not only was he America's first professional poet, but, after his death, he was the first American to have his bust placed in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in London, England. Longfellow was an unsurpassed master in his use of musical language. Few poets could match his sonorous and rhythmically...

"In this third edition the editors have added more than a score of poets not previously included ... We have regretfully had to cut out some poems included in earlier editions to make room for these. In a few cases only, the selection of poems from poets already included in the first two editions has been revised."--p.28.

Over the past decade over 350 women around the city of Juárez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found. Agosín, through her words and images, invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day.