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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | publication date The Complete Poems Of Kenneth Rexroth The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth's poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting... In the Bee Latitudes In vibrant, malleable, and layered syntax, these poems break conventions of lineation and punctuation, each utterance at the frontier of the articulate, yet necessarily pitched toward the insistently visceral. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry From the Beat poetry of the '50s to the spoken word of today, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. Like Donald Allen's epochal New American... The Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems Pocket Poets Number 52 Alberto Blanco, Juvenal Acosta Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers. Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist... Concerning the Angels Rafael Alberti First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia... Compression & Purity Spotlight Series Number 5 Will Alexander African American surrealism that extends from the ocean floor to the outer reaches of space. The Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition Dante Alighieri This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S... Everything Indicates Bay Bridge Poems & Portraits Thomas Michael Alleman, Ben Davis, Elissa Perry, Tamsin Smith Local poets were hoisted up into the windy towers of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in April 2011 to observe and map its progress and something of its soul. Their words, enhanced by the luminous photographs of... Solar Poems Homero Aridjis Visionary poems by Mexico's famed poet-activist A Time of Angels Homero Aridjis A poetic fable, illustrated by one of Mexico's most prominent artists, describes a dreamy contemplation of the reign of angels. Leaves of Grass The "Death-Bed" Edition John Ashbery, Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's... Selected Poems W. H. Auden This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly... Waifs and Strays Micah Ballard From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>