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<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Memory Wing Bill Lavender A memoir in verse that explores the outer reaches of truth: of memory, language and art. Loosely based on the tripartite structure of The Divine Comedy, this poem appears as a simple memoir in lyrical and immediately accessible language, yet it works... The Messianic Trees Kit Robinson "I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers."-Anselm HolloThe Messianic Trees is the first major collection of thirty years of poetry by Kit Robinson, one of the core members of... The Middle Ages Roger Fanning This new collection of poems, Fanning's first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality, and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Charles Bukowski The cultural ambassador of the flophouse hits hard to the body with poems about this lousy thing called life. My Afterlife Guaranteed Nanos Valaoritis Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing. Nanos Valaoritis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1921, of Greek parents. He has... Nervous Device Catherine Wagner With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience, questioning the potential for human connection. New and Selected Poems Volume One Mary Oliver Strikingly redesigned to accompany the publication of New and Selected Poems, Volume Two When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial... New and Selected Poems, Volume Two Mary Oliver As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and... Nine Alexandrias Pocket Poets Number 56 Semezdin Mehmedinovic Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response... Not Me Eileen Myles This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has... Notes on Thought and Vision Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender... Ode to Walt Whitman Federico Garcia Lorca Collected here in one bilingual edition are new translations of four small books of poems that were published during Federico Garcia Lorca's lifetime and span his most creative years. First Songs, poems inspired by the Andalusian countryside are... Odes and Elegies Friedrich Hölderlin "... At every point, Hoff finds extraordinary ways of conveying the astonishing force of Hölderlin's work." --Harold Bloom On Earth Last Poems and an Essay Robert Creeley Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment--a postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>