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<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by title | author Refusing Heaven Jack Gilbert More than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly... Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake, Richard Holmes This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty... 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... Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. The Great Enigma New Collected Poems Tomas Transtromer Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. The Pajamaist Matthew Zapruder “Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his... Intimate Journals Charles Baudelaire Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the 20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the... Sonnets to Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German. To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious…in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most... Poems of Andre Breton A Bilingual Anthology Andre Breton Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the... Selected Poems (Blake, William) (Penguin Classics) William Blake, Gerald E. Bentley The soulful mysticism of Blake—captured in a definitive new collection of his finest verse Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him... 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... Chanson Dada Tristan Tzara Selected Poems Tristan Tzara Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which... 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... The Other Side of the Postcard devorah major In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public appeal for poems that explored the realities of people's lives in a city as tough and tragic as it is beautiful and exhilarating. This anthology collects... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>