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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Plutonian Ode:And Other Poems 1977-1980 Pocket Poets Number 40 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box... Poems of Arab Andalusia Cola Franzen These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face."... Poems of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and... Poems Retrieved Frank O'Hara A reissue of the classic, essential companion to O'Hara's "Collected Poems," with a new foreword by Bill Berkson. Pomes All Sizes Pocket Poets Number 48 Jack Kerouac The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier... Prison/Culture Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, Rebeka Rodriguez Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 Pocket Poets Number 18 Allen Ginsberg "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan... Resistance Victor Serge Victor Serge, an authentic witness of the political and cultural struggles of this century, wrote these poems of Resistancein Orenburg in Central Asia, where he was sent into exile by Stalin in 1933. He eulogizes close friends and comrades and... Ring of Bone Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) Lew Welch A new and expanded edition of the classic go-to collection of Lew Welch's poetry, a must for both fans and new readers. The Rising of the Ashes Tahar Ben Jelloun Two epic poems focus on the bitter consequences of war and violence in the Middle East Riverbed of Memory Pocket Poets Number 49 Daisy Zamora These are poems written mostly in a time of war, and rooted in the land and people of Nicaragua. Zamora draws deep portraits of women of all classes, often using her own body as a metaphor and starting point. Recalling the years of revolution and... Roman Poems Pocket Poets Number 41 Pier Paolo Pasolini The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the... Sarajevo Blues Semezdin Mehmedinovic From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout... Save Twilight: selected poems Pocket Poets Number 53 Julio Cortazar Selected Poems The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>