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Falling Ill: Last PoemsA capstone to an unforgettable career Over the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor "the burden of being alive." In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he...
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Reconnaissance: PoemsA powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets . . .There'sa trembling inside the both of us, there's a trembling, inside us both The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering...
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The Testament of Cresseid and Seven FablesThe greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature,...
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LittlefootLittlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on the other side of my own death. Following the course...
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Horse Latitudes: PoemsThe title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field...
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The End of the PoemIn The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon dazzlingly explores a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the Latin and Greek:...
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Scar TissueIn Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--A thing is not an image--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he...
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Ashes for Breakfast: Selected PoemsBorn in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr nbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images...
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Selected Poems: Expanded Edition: Including Selections from Day by DaySelected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the...
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The Singing: PoemsNew work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before methere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the worldto us, and make it more, more than we...
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The Cosmos TrilogyYou Can't Like Seidel's Poems--They're Deliberately Virulent; You Can Only Gasp At Their Skill And Daring, Their Sickening Warp, Their Mercilessness.* Frederick Seidel's highly acclaimed Cosmos Trilogy is a triple thunderclap of darkness from the poet whom Richard Poirier has recently called the true...
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An Introduction to English PoetryA wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poetsJames Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In this eminently readable...
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The Poets' DanteEssays on the most celebrated Italian poet by eminent poets of the twentieth century Perhaps confessions by poets, of what Dante has meant to them, may even contribute something to the appreciation of Dante himself.-T. S. Eliot The great fourteenth-century poet has been an...
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I Am: The Selected Poetry of John ClareHail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius triesAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.--from Helpstone I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of...
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Selected Verse: Revised Bilingual EditionSelected verse from the poet who expanded the scope of lyric poetry (Rafael Campo, The Washington Post). The work of Federico Garc a Lorca, Spain's greatest modernist poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. The revised Selected Verse, which...
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The Tether: PoemsGraceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill. As I understand it, I couldcall him. Though it would help, it is not required that I give hima name first. Also, nothingsays he stops, then, or must turn.--from...
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Interior with Sudden Joy: PoemsThe Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry The next illogical step in love poetryThe most inscrutable beautiful names in this worldalways do sound like diseases.It is because they are engorged. G., I am a fool.What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.Halfway squatting...
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ChickamaugaThis volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a...
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Homage to Robert FrostThree of our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost.Author: Joseph BrodskyPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 09/01/1997Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.08w x 0.34dISBN: 9780374525248Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/21/1997About the AuthorThe poets Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and...
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One ArtFrom several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. One Art takes...
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