Poetry
WEAVING SUNDOWN IN A SCARLET LIGHT: FIFTY POEMS FOR FIFTY YEARS
Written by Harjo, Joy
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love.
WASTE LAND: A BIOGRAPHY OF A POEM
Written by Hollis, Matthew
Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S.
ACTUAL AIR
Written by Berman, David
Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory.
SELECTED POEMS
Written by Johnson, Linton Kwesi
A reissue of revolutionary poems from the last three decades by cultural icon Linton Kwesi Johnson--a dub poet and activist, and only the second living poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series A selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades.
100 POETS: A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY
Written by Carey, John
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests.
SELECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY: AN ANNOTATED EDITION
Written by Millay, Edna St Vincent
This beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay's oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age's most famous poet More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers.
SELECTED POEMS OF PAUL VERLAINE, BILINGUAL EDITION
Written by Verlaine, Paul
The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime--his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments.
NIGHT OUT WITH ROBERT BURNS: THE GREATEST POEMS (MAIN - CANONS)
Written by Burns, Robert
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems?
BAD HOBBY: POEMS
Written by Fagan, Kathy
From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal diagnosis," how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body "meant to bend & breed" opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless?
BLUEST NUDE: POEMS
Written by Codjoe, Ama
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkAma Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love.
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