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<<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>     sort list by title | author 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 Collected Poems of Barbara Guest Barbara Guest One of the most notable members of the New York School--and its best-known woman--Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her... New Collected Poems (with CD) George Oppen George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969... The Messianic Trees Kit Robinson "I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers."-Anselm HolloThe Messianic Trees is the first major collection of thirty years of poetry by Kit Robinson, one of the core members of... 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... Time and Materials Poems 1997-2005 Robert Hass The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate... For the Confederate Dead Kevin Young The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with... 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...   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... If I were writing this Robert Creeley At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecturing the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation. Selected Poems Yevgeny Yevtushenko A bracing new translation of the work of Russia's best-known post-Stalin poet YevgenY Yevtushenko blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets, leading Russia to new heights of artistic achievement in the twentieth century with a confident poetic... <<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>