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Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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Some Thing BlackWritten in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who...
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Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded SessionsA fascinating close-up of Mr. Strasberg's philosophy of theatre and method of working with actors.--Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times Unavailable for over fifteen years, these transcripts of Strasberg's private acting classes provide a revealing look at one of the nation's most famous acting...
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Muddy MatterhornHeather McHugh's first book in a decade, Muddy Matterhorn, reclaims the mix of high and low that is her sensibility's signature, in matters practical and philosophical, semantic and stylistic, mortal and transitory, amorous and political, hilarious and heartbreaking. With fierce attacks on technology and...
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RailsplitterRailsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln's persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President's...
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Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems"This is Neruda at his finest, his eloquence and passion skillfully arranged in an accessible yet profound package." --Publishers Weekly"This brief visit with Neruda ends all too soon, yet reminds one why his work still matters." --Washington Post"They are vintage Pablo Neruda, literally and...
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Imaginary VesselsCompelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world. --The Boston GlobeRekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being. --Rain TaxiIn acknowledging the disappointing...
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One Man's DarkMaurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim. --New York Times Book ReviewManning's genius--his truly staggering genius--is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly,...
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Shirt in HeavenJean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings.--The New York Times Book ReviewQuietly marked by...
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Compass Rose2015 Pulitzer Prize finalistCompass Rose is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world.--Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism--and observes their correspondences with...
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AlightWith anatomical precision, Joudah illustrates scenes that are at once uncanny and contemporary, be it a Bedouin woman's lavender mourning veil, the chrome doors to an alchemist's home, or the mysterious speaker in 'Smoke, ' who exits abruptly and claims to have 'scripts to...
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Book of TwilightThe greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.--Gabriel Garcia MarquezHis enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He had to do it, in order to name a world. Our...
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Our AndromedaHonored as a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of "Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women"A heady, infectious celebration.--The New YorkerShaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip...
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Collected BodyMort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended.--Library JournalA one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight.--Midwest Book ReviewMort's style--tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism--recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw...
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Space, in ChainsKasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down.--The New York Times Book ReviewKasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and...
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The Silk Dragon: Translations from the ChineseArthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze has gathered over 70 poems by poets who have had a profound effect on Chinese culture, American poetics...
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A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre"For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history."--The New York Times A Longing for the Light is the only...
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The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf JacobsenNorway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States. This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help...
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The Second Four Books of PoemsW.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen...
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Donkey Gospel: PoemsWinner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets In Donkey Gospel, his second collection of poems, Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle through line after line confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music,...
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Owl in the Mask of the DreamerAuthor: John HainesPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.88h x 5.46w x 1.00dISBN: 9781555972462About the AuthorBorn in Norfolk, Virginia in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art....
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