Poetry
RICHARD HOWARD LOVES HENRY JAMES AND OTHER AMERICAN WRITERS: POEMS
Written by Howard, Richard
A lauded American poet's tributes to Walt Whitman and Henry James, now collected for the first time. Richard Howard is widely recognized as one of America's finest poets, and he has been especially celebrated for his sparkling and trenchant dramatic monologues based on the lives of historical figures.
SELECTED POETRY OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (REVISED)
Written by Millay, Edna St Vincent
One of America's most celebrated poets--and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923--Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation.
INSECURITY SYSTEM: POEMS
Written by Wainscott, Sara
Winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
WHITE SPACES: SELECTED POEMS AND EARLY PROSE
Written by Auster, Paul
White Spaces gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster's writing.
NORMA JEANE BAKER OF TROY
Written by Carson, Anne
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force.
UNDRESSING: POEMS
Written by Lee, Li-Young
"Erotic. . . . Throughout this multilayered book, [Lee] challenges readers to think and feel more deeply." -- Washington Post"Few poets write like Li- Young Lee these days, facing the biggest and broadest questions head on. . . . Fewer still ask these questions so well, and so movingly."-- Los Angeles Times
BLESSED AS WE WERE: LATE SELECTED AND NEW POEMS, 2001-2018
Written by Stern, Gerald
For over four decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this "sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary" (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending philosophical, wide-ranging intellect with boisterous wit.
NOW AND THEN
Written by Scott-Heron, Gil
Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter's lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed 'bluesologist' triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which have distinguished Gil Scott-Heron's career.
UNRECONCILED: POEMS 1991-2013; A BILINGUAL EDITION
Written by Houellebecq, Michel
Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles
POCKET SAPPHO
Written by Barnstone, Willis
Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes. Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet.A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho's lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today.
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