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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>     sort list by title | author Woolgathering Patti Smith Patti Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early Work... Nod House Nathaniel Mackey From the pyramids to the projects, Ivory Coast to Lone Coast, Lagos to Stick City, amidst chorusing horns and star-spar lightning, Nod House unfolds as gorgeous eulogy, copla-cuts of deep song, the long elegiac march of "day after day of the dead." Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Stickball on 88th Street Willis Barnstone Comic, tragic, colorful, and adventurous, Stickball on 88th Street is a sequence of thirty-four narrative poems that follows its speaker from boyhood to college. It's a memory book, bound with vignettes of school, family life, and the streets of New... Tres Bilingual Edition Roberto Bolaño "Poetry is braver than anyone," Roberto Bolaño believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection.Roberto Bolaño's Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose... Some Math Bill Luoma . In Some Math, the syncopations of poetry meet the (ir)regularity of mathematical equations. Consider the "story problems" of high school math class. When encountering the word "and," replace it with the addition symbol "+." When encountering the... Waifs and Strays Micah Ballard From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays. Come, Thief Poems Jane Hirshfield A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. 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... Here and Now Poems Stephen Dunn Full of grace and masterful precision, the poems in Stephen Dunn's sixteenth book of poetry attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now, both political and metaphysical, and the essential human comedy of getting through the day. 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." Flies Michael Dickman Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back... 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... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>