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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The 100 Best African American Poems Nikki Giovanni Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and... 100 Love Sonnets Cien sonetos de amor Pablo Neruda If you've ever wished for a fresh and imaginative way of saying "I love you" to your beloved, peruse Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. This intimate bilingual collection overflows with the master poet's signature sensuality and... 100 Selected Poems by e. e. cummings e. e. cummings e. e. cummings is without question one of the major poems of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings's wittiest and most profound poems... Thirty Poems Robert Walser In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser's work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton's favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. 50 American Plays Poems Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters—landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch Across the Land and the Water Selected Poems, 1964 - 2001 W. G. Sebald Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this unique collection is bound to become a classic in its own right. Advice for Lovers Julian Talamantez Brolaski Inspired by Ovid and renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a queer re-imaginging of the art of courtly love. All That's Left Jack Hirschman Poems for social justice by San Francisco's Poet Laureate Almond Blossoms and Beyond Mahmoud Darwish The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world... Animations Pocket Poets Number 45 Adam Cornford Speculative and yet impassioned, Adam Cornford's poems animate in the same breath his interior landscape and the terrain of everyday life. Like a lens, his writing can concentrate the light of speech to reveal a world hidden in a single metaphor. Antigonick Sophocles An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone Approximate Man and Other Writings Approximate Man and Other Writings Tristan Tzara, Mary Ann Caws This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism. Included is a critical... Ariel Sylvia Plath "In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." – From the Introduction by Robert Lowell Ariel The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement Sylvia Plath When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the draft Sylvia... 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>