Poetry 17

Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and "Life Studies and For the Union Dead "stand as among his most important volumes. In "Life Studies," which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formal……続きを見る

Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the "haiku" to rap music--and trace their history続きを見る

Sacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.続きを見る

An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb through violence and love, fear and loss, exploring the common denominators in each. Against Which……続きを見る

Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature." Harold Bloom続きを見る

An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valery, and T. S. Eliot. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work--especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein--is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was……続きを見る

Lyrical beauty and power, imposing metaphor, and thought both deep and precise are hallmarks of Kelly Cherry's poetry, on view in Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems. With a dazzling mastery and range of tone, technique, form, and ideas, Cherry presents a lifetime of powerful writing that ……続きを見る

Inger Christensen's masterpiece it, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson.続きを見る

The First Four Books of Poems" collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for "The WildIris, " Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In"Firstborn, The Hou……続きを見る

All of the animals in the forest go into hiding because the wolf is coming, but why they are hiding is the big surprise.続きを見る

National Poetry Series winner makes compelling poetry from the tumultuous life of blues singer Leadbelly.続きを見る

For Valentine's Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote "Pocket Poem" and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to mo……続きを見る

The authorized canon of one of the world's most beloved poets, this is a collection of every poem William Butler Yeats approved for publication during his lifetime.続きを見る

Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill the pages of Insomnia Diary. The fourth collection of poetry from this former automotive die designer delivers more of the cunning brilliance that has become Hicok's hallmark.続きを見る

Lehman, the renowned editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, edits this witty, titillating, and very sexy collection of the greatest Americana erotic poems--from Walt Whitman to todays most talented contemporary poets.続きを見る

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.続きを見る

How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman's newest poetic work. "This is a "How-to" book", Grossman explains. "The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A New singer in this present must be sighted. In ……続きを見る

Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks took her place as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century, distilling modernist style through the sounds and shapes of a variety of African-American forms and Idioms. Now Eliza……続きを見る

A star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form.続きを見る

Walt Whitman was the most innovative and influential poet of the nineteenth century. His examination of the world around him -- from the intimate to the cosmic -- transcends time and place. His verse, though seemingly personal, lends a voice to the entire human race that speaks for universal harmo……続きを見る

The collected works of one of America's most innovative poets.続きを見る

In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates……続きを見る

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and ……続きを見る

Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens her personal world to the world at large. In poems that explore the historical, social, and scient……続きを見る