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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time.
6) Vita Nova
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet returns with a book length sequence combining the ecstatic utterance of "The Wild Iris" with the worldly dramas elaborated in "Meadowlands" 64 pp.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Combining Grace Paley's four previous collections and new unpublished work, this work traces the career of this direct, attentive, never predictable poet. Whether she describes the vicissitudes and pleasures of life in New York City or the hard beauty of her adoptive rural Vermont, whether she celebrates the blessings of friendship or protests against social injustice, her poems brim with the compassion and tough good humor that have made her stories...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects--our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives--echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry's most...
Author
Publisher
Write Bloody Publishing, America's Independent Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Kay, in collaboration with illustrator Sophia Janowitz, releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. Her poems celebrate family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects.
Author
Publisher
Four Way Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The poems in National Anthem, the fourth collection of poetry from critically-acclaimed poet and critic Kevin Prufer, are finely-studied short films about America in the 21st century. Set in an apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic world that is disturbing because it is uncannily familiar, National Anthem chronicles the aftermath of the failure of imperial vision. Allowing Rome and America to bleed into one another, Prufer masterfully weaves the threads...
12) Brain camp
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS. Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry...
14) So forth: poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixty-four poems by the former United States Poet Laureate and the winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.
15) Stag's leap
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous...
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 95
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later, he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening years, together with new translations of Moliere (from Amphitryon) and Dante."--Jacket.
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