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<<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>     sort list by title | author Rose Li-Young Lee Table of Contents I.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating AloneII.Always A RoseIII.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or... Life & Death Robert Creeley Tomas Transtromer Selected Poems, 1954-1986 Tomas Transtromer Tomas Transtromer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a... The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde A complete collection--over 300 poems--from one of this country's most influential poets. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 "Books to Remember" in... 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... What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire Charles Bukowski Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems A Book of Lives Juan Felipe Herrera, Artemio Rodriguez The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium... Horses in the Air and Other Poems Jorge Guillén Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guillen's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers... Actual Air David Berman In these vivid and subtly radical poems, David Berman, lead singer/songwriter of the Silver Jews, reinvents overlooked details of everyday life-from the suitcase of a departing girlfriend to a baseboard electrical outlet. He charts a course through... The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer An Amusement Kenneth Patchen Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do... Ariel Sylvia Plath "In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." – From the Introduction by Robert Lowell The Cane Groves of Narmada River Erotic Poems from Old India Andrew Schelling Of the world's ancient poetry, that of classical India was the most vividly erotic-uninhibited, tender, sad, and joyous by turns. The poems sound as if they might have been written yesterday, although the period covered ranges from roughly 200 CE... Autobiography of Red Anne Carson A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist  "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so... Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs Correspondence Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Barbara Wiedemann Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day... <<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>