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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>     sort list by title | author The Anthology of Rap Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In "The Anthology of Rap", editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a... Solar Throat Slashed The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire's poems have body, a jagged dimensionality. They climb off the page and fill up the room. They feel around for the sun. The poems get hot and explode into energetic shards, only to reform and explode again. The bilingual edition is a must... When I Was a Poet Pocket Poets Number 60 David Meltzer An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats." Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda The atom, a tuna, laziness, love--the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Margaret Sayers Peden's selection is by far the most extensive yet to appear in English. 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... The Best of It New and Selected Poems Kay Ryan Kay Ryan's recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet: her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from... The Apple Trees at Olema New and Selected Poems Robert Hass The Apple Trees at Olema includes work from Robert Hass's first five books—Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials—as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in... The Poetry of Rilke Bilingual Edition Rainer Maria Rilke For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most... Compression & Purity Spotlight Series Number 5 Will Alexander African American surrealism that extends from the ocean floor to the outer reaches of space. Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 Pocket Poets Number 14, 50th Anniversary Edition Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works. This special fiftieth­-anniversary edition of Kaddish & Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by... In Search of Small Gods Jim Harrison Now in paperback, Jim Harrison's best-selling poetry book In Search of Small Gods is where birds and humans converse, autobiographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. Stranger in Town Cedar Sigo Redolent of Wieners, Whalen, and Lamantia, Stranger in Town is the second coming of the SF Renaissance. In Danger A Pasolini Anthology Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jack Hirschman In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini Versed Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>