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The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize. From the glinting scales in a painting by Vermeer to the white lines that disappear beneath a headlight's beam, Mr. Brock's poems measure out the often elusive weights and distances of the known world, confronting the unruly powers that threaten his burnished surfaces. Once read, his keen perceptions--all the more striking for the expertly cadenced music of his language and his supple use of poetic form--will be long remembered.

author: Geoffrey Brock ASIN or ISBN-10: 1566636671 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $14.21 USD

When Timothy Murphy graduated from college, Robert Penn Warren advised him to go home and grow some roots. This memoir in prose, verse and woodcuts, depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world.

author: Tim Murphy ASIN or ISBN-10: 0821413228 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0321107209 binding: Paperback list price: $23.20 USD amazon price: $20.30 USD

France’s most distinguished man of letters This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: “Micromegas,” “The World as It Is,” “Memnon,” “Bababec and the Fakirs,” “History of Scarmentado’s Travels,” “Plato’s Dream,” “Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier,” “Story of a Good Brahman,” “Jeannot and Colin,” “An Indian Adventure,” “Ingenuous,” “The One-Eyed Porter,

author: Francois Voltaire ASIN or ISBN-10: 0451531159 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $4.95 USD amazon price: $4.95 USD