Acolytes

Poems

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.

Morrow 2007 144 PP. Cloth

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The Aeneid

BY VERGIL, TRANSLATED BY SARAH RUDEN
This extraordinary new translation of the "Aeneid" stands alone among modern Vergil translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Quaker poet, Sarah Ruden is the first woman to translate Vergil's great epic, and she renders the poem in the same number of lines as the original work--a very rare feat that maintains technical fidelity to the original without diminishing its emotional power. Ruden adheres closely to the poet's message. Her rendering of Vergil's words gives immediacy to his struggling faith that history has beauty and purpose in spite of its pain.

Yale Univ Press 2009 308 PP. Paper

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American Primitive - Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
Fifty early poems - primitive in the sense of wilderness, the special American wilderness, and themed on nature, and human yearning and love set in that primitive wilderness.

Back bay Books 1983 88 PP. Paper

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Battlefield Without Borders

Iraq Poems

BY DAVID SMITH-FERRI
In July, 1999, David visited Iraq for the first time, as part of an eight-member fact-finding delegation organized by the Chicago-based group, Voices in the Wilderness. David wrote two thirds of these poems while in Iraq after encounters with Iraqi people, in a wide range of settings - from hospitals to homes to bomb sites. The book sold out in four months, and in November, 2007, Haley's published a second edition of the book, with twelve new poems and a new foreword by Kathy Kelly.

Haleys 2007 122 PP. Paper

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Bicycles

Love Poems

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a companion volume to Giovanni's love poems of 1997. Since then Giovanni has experienced losses both public and private. The death of her mother and sister, the massacre at Virginia Tech where she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love-what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love-and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart-is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.

Morrow 2009 109 PP. Cloth

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The Bride Of E

Poems

BY MARY JO BANG
These new poems explore a contrast between high and low culture. She wrote each of them through the lens of an invented character, rather than through her own eyes and her own emotions. "I tend to reject the notion that poems should somehow reveal something about the poet's life", these poems are lighter and more humorous, with a less elegiac tone. .

Graywolf Press 2009 90 PP. Cloth

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Brief Candles

101 Clerihews

BY HENRY TAYLOR
With hilarious irreverence, Quaker Pulitzer Prize winning poet Henry Taylor takes on people usually taken overly seriously - members of the Supreme Court, poet's laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities and New Testament figures - demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while holding a high standard of craftsmanship.

Louisiana State University Press 2000 51 PP. Paper

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The Children Of Herakles By Euripedes

TRANSLATED BY HENRY TAYLOR, ROBERT BROOKES
Translated by Quaker poet Henry Taylor this is a play about war and the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the legendary hero cursed from birth, was never permitted a triumphant homecoming. Here, his descendants continue the effort to return home, seeking asylum from the persecution of the king who had imposed on Herakles the famous twelve labors. While it pursues concepts of deep moral grandeur, it ends with a denouement of astonishing physical and ethical brutality, and affords Euripides a severe comment on what he believed was the decline of the Athenian character.

1981 83 PP. Cloth

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Edge By Edge

BY GLADYS JUSTIN-CARR, HEIDI HART, EMMA BOLDEN, VIVIAN TETER
A collection of four smaller books by accomplished women poets, including Friend Heidi Hart. Heidi Hart's poems, full of music, are a quiet testament to her mature perspective of those middle places where "each of us holds light, but none / is spared some of the darkness." "Edge by Edge sets four very active and impassioned voices in motion, and it asks us to let those voices pass through us as they travel toward each other." - David Rivard, from the foreword.

Toadlily Press 2007 Paper

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Edward Lowbury - Selected Poems (10008)

BY EDWARD LOWBURY
SECONDHAND. Eminent Welsh bacteriologist whose mercurial verse sprang from his faith in dream and intuition. (1913-2007) A selection of his poetry. Fair condition, very plain paperback. Was Elizabeth watsons copy.

Celtion Press 1978 96 PP. Paper

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Elegy

BY MARY JO BANG
64 poems elegies written after the death of her 37 year old son from an accidental perscription drug overdose. Devastated, but still writing clearly and with great intelligence the poems have garnered great praise. She intended the poems to be a distraction from her sorrow; they offer no hope, no consolation and no solution. She wrote them for one year as a conversation with her son and then stopped.

Graywolf Press 2007 92 PP. Paper

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Evidence

BY MARY OLIVER
Evidence is a collection of forty-seven new poems on all of Mary Oliver's classic themes. She writes perceptively about grief and mortality, love and nature, and the spiritual sustenance she draws from their gifts. Ever grateful for the bounty that is offered to us daily by the natural world, Oliver is attentive to the mysteries it imparts. The arresting beauty she finds in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's "embellishments" or the last hours of darkness permeates her poems. Her newest volume is imbued through and through with that power of nature to, in Oliver's words, "excite the viewers toward sublime thought."

Beacon 2008 74 PP. Cloth

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Findings

Poets And The Crisis Of Faith - Php 310

BY JOHN LAMPEN
Poems can help express mystical experience.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 40 PP. Paper

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The Flying Change

Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
Quaker poet Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry. Here he is immersing himself in the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains, pleasures for which a real farmer has neither the time or inclination. An anti-modernist in pursuit of states of grace, Taylor revels in such things as a "frisbee floating like milkweed," women's hands and "the charming old songs in their illegible syllables." His affection for his region is faithful and unmixed, and produces sweet variety in his moderate pastoral.

Louisiana State University Press 1986 55 PP. Paper

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From Me To You

Love Poems

BY U.A. FANTHORPE AND ROSIE BAILEY
The respected English Quaker poet largely unknown in America and her partner Rosie Bailey write together, of love.

Enitharmon Press 2008 66 PP. Paper

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The Gift

Poems By Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
With this stunning gift edition of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices.

Penguin 1999 352 PP. Paper

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Growing Pains

Poems

BY ALAN BRICK
Alan Brick has led many popular workshops on writing for friends at the FGC gathering and at Pendle Hill. He has worked for AFSC and the FOR. This book is divided into seven sections of poems; about being young to growing old, reflecting on how life "is" as one grows, on people, on religion, on war, and on politics.

Xlibris 2007 146 PP. Paper

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Half Wild

Poems

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
This winner of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets is a spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Here sacred inquiry is grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual responses from the Quaker author of Barn at the End of the World.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 62 PP. Paper

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Hopkins

The Mystic Poets Series

BY GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS
Not published until after his death, the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins were written purely as a spiritual exercise. He used a language that is still fresh today and startling metaphors, his underlying subject was a soul wrestling with ideas and searching for God. This book has an introduction about Hopkins life and view of mysticism, and excerpts of his writing about poetry and two sermons on Jesus. Twenty of his best known and most profound poems are included.

Skylight Paths 2004 128 PP. Cloth

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The Horse Show At Midnight

And An Afternoon Of Pocket Billiards - Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
The poet is clerk of Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, and, indeed the fifth in a direct line of descendants to hold that same post. This collection of 24 poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion. Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 128 PP. Paper

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I Heard God Laughing

Poems Of Hope And Joy

BY HAFIZ, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic's path of love-a journey in which love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of growth and transformation. With this collection, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and spiritual voices. If you haven't yet had the delight of dining with Daniel Ladinsky's sweet, playful renderings of the musings of the great saints, I Heard God Laughing is a perfect appetizer.

Penguin 2006 112 PP. Paper

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The Iliad

Or, The Poem Of Force - Php 91

BY SIMONE WEIL
Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

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Indian Literature, The Tagore Edition (1)

INDIAN LITERATURE MAGAZINE
SECONDHAND. Indian Printing, fair condition as reading copy. Was Elizabeth Watsons copy. A special edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Many articles by scholars of Tagore.

Sahitya Akademi 1961 221 PP. Paper

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Letters To A Young Poet

BY RAINER MARIA RILKE, TRANSLATED BY M. D. HERTER NORTON
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1903 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chonicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

W. W. Norton 2004 90 PP. Paper

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Love Poems From God

Twelve Sacred Voices From The East And West

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
In this transcendent collection, Daniel Landinsky - best know for his gifted and best-selling translations of Sufi and Hafiz - brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Landinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatice poems; St. Francis's loving observations of nature; Kabir's wild, freeing humor; St. Teresa's sensual verse - these and other writers considered to be "conduits of the divine" make up this rich and luminous collection.

Penguin 2002 380 PP. Paper

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Making Peace - Poems

BY DENISE LEVERTOV, EDITED BY PEGGY ROSENTHAL
Making Peace collects Levertov's finest poems about war and peace, subjects which she addresses with passion and nuance. Spanning the last three decades of her life, their subjects range from Vietnam to the death-squads of El Salvador to the first Gulf War. Often brutally vivid-in "The Certainty" she writes, "war / means blood spilling from living bodies"-Levertov's poems always have at their core her love for humanity, even as she registers her horror at what humans do to one another.

New Directions 2006 96 PP. Paper

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Mysticpiece

Poetic Work

BY SHARON FITZPATRICK
Most of these short poems came to Sharon Fitzpatrick in worship with Sarasota Monthly Meeting. For example Knowledge:There is no Ledge from which to fall: What Yahweh knows, may overflow for all.

Sharon Fitzpatrick 2009 55 PP.. Paper

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New And Selected Poems, Volume 2

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One. "Oliver's poetry is of the Earth, and about the Earth, and as these poems give voice to the planet, they render human life more beautiful, more sentient, more meaningful." -Karen McCarthy

Beacon Press 2007 178 PP. Paper

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New And Selected Poems, Volume 1

BY MARY OLIVER
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?"

Beacon Press 2004 272 PP. Paper

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Nikki Giovanni 2009 Address - Video Dvd

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a video DVD version of Nikki Giovanni's 2009 FGC Gathering plenary address. This DVD includes bonus material from Giovanni's afternoon Gathering Store presentation. Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni reflected on her lifetime of joy and struggle, love and grieving, hope and spirit. Giovanni believes in the power we each have to make a difference in ourselves, and thus in others' lives.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 VIDEO DVD Audio

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