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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author On Earth Last Poems and an Essay Robert Creeley Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment--a postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis... That Little Something Poems Charles Simic That Little Something is the superb eighteenth collection from one of America’s most vital and honored poets. Over the course of his singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade, including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet... 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. Portrait and Dream New and Selected Poems Bill Berkson Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting at once figural and abstract, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson's poetry in all its deftness and variety. His poems, full of nuance, intensity, and exuberant wit, spread meaning across... The Captain's Verses Love Poems Pablo Neruda The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems. Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster... Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose Chad Sweeney Raw, inspired testimony and work from the teachers of the National WritersCorps World Ball Notebook Sesshu Foster A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations. The Pleasures of the Damned Poems, 1951-1993 Charles Bukowski In going through this comprehensive collection the reader is able to see past the dirty-old-man façade that has plagued Bukowski's writing and glimpse at moments of sincere compassion and prophetic epiphanies. His poetry is constantly morphing into... The Romantic Dogs Roberto Bolaño Discover Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance... Intimacies Poems of Love Pablo Neruda From Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda comes Intimacies—a beautiful companion to On the Blue Shore of Silence—showcasing some of Neruda's most extraordinary love poems, and once again married with Mary Heebner's earthy, evocative paintings. Neruda is... Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne Essential uncollected work from one of the most infamous and provocative contemporary American writers. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts Sylvia Plath Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her... The Collected Poems Sylvia Plath A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted...   All-American Poem Matthew Dickman One of the best young poets writing in America today. A joy to read. Says Tony Hoagland, APR/Honickman First Book Prize judge "Matthew Dickman's all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>