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<<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The Last Night of the Earth Poems Charles Bukowski High proof alcohol, heaven-sent classical music, and a hardass attitude you can't beat with a stick; sturm und drang à la sleazy L.A. Leaves of Grass The "Death-Bed" Edition John Ashbery, Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's... Leaves of Grass The First (1855) Edition Malcolm Cowley, Walt Whitman Described by Emily Dickinson as "disgraceful" and by Emerson as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America had yet contributed" to world literature, Leaves of Grass is more than a literary performance. In his departure from the... Left-Handed Poems Jonathan Galassi Left-Handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke "…the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other." I think this book should be handed out to high school students along with free condoms and pamphlets on road safety. I think this book should be handed out... Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke "…the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other." I think this book should be handed out to high school students along with free condoms and pamphlets on road safety. I think this book should be handed out... Listen! Early Poems: 1913-1928 Pocket Poets Number 47 Vladimir Mayakovsky Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as one of Russia's major poets. Longing Selected Poems Jaime Gil de Biedma The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war... Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems A Book of Lives Juan Felipe Herrera, Artemio Rodriguez The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium... Love Is a Dog from Hell Poems, 1974-1977 Charles Bukowski Poems depicting the anguish and frustration that the heart endures. Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America Perry Higman The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... Lunch Poems Pocket Poets Number 19 Frank O'Hara Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti... Manifestoes of Surrealism Andre Breton Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism. Mayakovsky's Revolver Poems Matthew Dickman From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark. At the center of Mayakovsky's Revolver is the suicide of Matthew Dickman’s older brother. "Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive... <<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>