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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author 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 Rising, Falling, Hovering C.D. Wright "C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."-The New York Times Book Review"Wright braids some of her most personal and intimate poetry to date with an extended meditation on the consequences of America's contemporary stance toward other... In the American Grain Second Edition William Carlos Williams A new edition of William Carlos Williams' loving and groundbreaking book about American history, with a new introduction by Rick Moody. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its... The Kingdom of Ordinary Time Poems Marie Howe Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in... Free Cell Anselm Berrigan The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series—experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director. The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg A Narative Poem Ed Sanders The acclaimed chronicle of the life of the great beat poet, finally in paperback Allen Ginsberg: poet, activist, visionary, soul of the Beat Generation. For many, Ginsberg's powerful and unflinchingly honest poetry empowered the counterculture of... Caveat Onus The Complete Poem Cycle Dave Brinks The Caveat Onus poem cycle was originally published by a small New Orleans press as four separate books following Hurricane Katrina. The various volumes have since garnered critical praise throughout the country. This is the first edition to combine... Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth Poems 2004-2006 Adrienne Rich “Rich’s lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory.” —San Francisco Chronicle... 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. Divagations Stéphane Mallarmé "This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarmé's diverting... 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... World's End Pablo Neruda "We are faced with the unavoidable task of critical communication within a world which is empty and is not less full of injustices, punishments and sufferings because it is empty."-from Pablo Neruda's Nobel Prize addressIn this book-length poem... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>