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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | publication date Written In Water The Collected Prose Poems Luis Cernuda While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and... The Stiffest of the Corpse An Exquisite Corpse Reader Andrei Codrescu The Stiffest of the Corpse brings together the best of the radical journal of books and ideas that galvanized the tepid literary world of the 1980s. Talk, erudition and savagery join here for a truly international assault on a mass hypnosis and image... Where Shadows Will Selected Poems 1988-2008 Norma Cole First volume of the new City Lights Spotlight series: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet. 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. Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle Pocket Poets Number 8 Gregory Corso "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso’s individual (therefore universal) desire." – Allen Ginsberg Save Twilight: selected poems Pocket Poets Number 53 Julio Cortazar Selected Poems The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music... The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood Pocket Poets Number 57 Kamau Daaood A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word movement, these poems soar and sway with the syncopation and melodies of jazz. Portraits, chronicles, incantations and invocations, drawn from a lifetime of prolific activity. From his early... Pieces of a Song Selected Poems Diane Di Prima "Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in... 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... The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George... City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology Lawrence Ferlinghetti "This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Even though some say that... Pictures of the Gone World Pocket Poets Number 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... World Ball Notebook Sesshu Foster A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations. The Unknown Poe An Anthology of Fugitive Writings Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Foye An indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>