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Basho
Matsuo Basho et al.
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After Nature
W. G. Sebald
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Begin Again
Grace Paley
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Beowulf
Anonymous
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The Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous
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Book of Psalms
Robert Alter, trans.
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Ci sarà un altro mare
Manuel Alegre
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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The Divine Comedy
Dante
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
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Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
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Geography III
Elizabeth Bishop
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Gypsy Ballads
Federico García Lorca
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Howl
Allen Ginsberg
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The Iliad
Homer
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Last Poems
Paul Celan
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Man and Camel
Mark Strand
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Man and Nature
Wole Soyinka
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Nox
Anne Carson
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Obras Completas (Complete Works)
Jorges Luis Borges
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The Odyssey
Homer
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On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)
Titus Lucretius
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Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire
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The Poems of Our Climate
Wallace Stevens
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Poems of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
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Poesias Completas
Federico Garcia Lorca
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Robert Frost
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Rivers and Mountains
John Ashbery
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The Soliloquies of Constantine
Moss Herbert
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The Sonnets
William Shakespeare
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War Music
Christopher Logue
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The White Pony
Robert Payne, ed.
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