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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>     sort list by title | publication date You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense Charles Bukowski Alcohol, madness, and the true way. Poetry as life...done in hard time. Orphic Songs Pocket Poets Number 54 Dino Campana Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous language, and strange beauty of his poetry make him as important to twentieth-century poetry as Garcia... From Nicaragua with Love First edition Ernesto Cardenal San Francisco City Lights 1986, 1986. First edition 79pp. Slight wear to wraps; near fine. Pocket Poets series book number 43. New, 1st Edition Pluriverse New and Selected Poems Ernesto Cardenal 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... Red Doc > Anne Carson Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with... 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... Pier Paolo Pasolini Poet of Ashes Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Chiesi, Andrea Mancini In this book, readers will find poems that Pasolini wrote during his brief stay in New York, interviews, and an anthology of statements, reflections, and notes on his films. Beat Poets Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Carmela Ciuraru This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish... Careless Rambles John Clare Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit. Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Poems and Songs Leonard Cohen A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved... 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. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>