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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author 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. Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background Wayne Koestenbaum "Wayne Koestenbaum's brilliant new collection is like a lurid coloring book of Fauvist Depravity. Playfully perverse, his poems reinvent the lyrical, satirical barb for our moment. And they're as telling as they are outrageous. Where else could we meet... In the Sierra Mountain Writings Kenneth Rexroth, Kim Stanley Robinson Nature writings by one of America's greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras. Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and... 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. The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry Geoffrey Brock A surprising and illuminating collection, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry invites the reader to examine the works of these and other poets—seventy-five in all—in context and conversation with one another. Left-Handed Poems Jonathan Galassi Left-Handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. 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. Collected Poems Jack Gilbert Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work. No Surrender Poems Ai Each of the speakers in Ai's daring new collection has a uniquely American story to tell, and each is told with the poet's characteristic dark humor and ambition. Useless Landscape Or, A Guide for Boys D. A. Powell In D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry, the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, directing an ironic smile, or questioning who in any given setting is the instructor... In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys Poems Campbell Mcgrath In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys is a collection of dreams, visions, jibes, essays, arguments, and love songs, each of them transformed into poetry by one of our most honored and entertaining poets. Pitch Poems Todd Boss With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. Citizen Aaron Shurin In Citizen, Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful. At Sea A Poem for Pablo Neruda Lawrence Ferlinghetti EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS! Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea". <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>