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A masterpiece of Western culture, "The Metamorphoses" is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. In this modern translation, Gregory turns his own poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes. Revised reissue.続きを見る

New to Penguin Classics-a transcendent selection of poetry from the early Islamic era. Poetry has been the most powerful vehicle for conveying Sufism-the mystical dimension of Islam-from the early flowering of mystical Islam in Baghdad to the later heights it reached through Jalaluddin Rumi (d. ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Enacting the Zen proverb "fall down seven times, get up eight," this collection explores the ways we fall--through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up--out of personal debacles, unfortuna……続きを見る

Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mother's struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, one's own mortality, humanity's physical a……続きを見る

Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality.続きを見る

Exploring modern-day problems that range from strained familial relationships to an individuals struggle to find her place in the world, Kennedys powerful new collection focuses on the 21st centurys intricate connections to the past. Drawing on history as well her personal life, she explores relat……続きを見る

The poems in Daniel Mark Epsteins eighth poetry collection range from the solid and accomplished works for which he is known to astonishing pieces that are near-spiritual encounters. Always an assured poet, Epstein employs inventive rhythms to remarkable effect in these new poems, as if the reader……続きを見る

The Whole Nine Yards presents a compelling collection of poems by former Poet Laureate and two-time National Book Award finalist Daniel Hoffman, each poem aiming to share the pleasures of dramatizing language, theme and form.続きを見る

Pacific Shooter is winner of the 2009 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award. It is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovids Metamorphosesand with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: theres too much magic, too much genius, too ……続きを見る

This latest book by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner is distinctive among her 17 volumes for . . . the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile . . . and unless we learn to cherish [it], we will destroy it--"America" magazine.続きを見る

In dazzling original poems, essays, screenplay, and libretto gathered here, the author draws on personal experience and the work of others to illuminate "decreation"--the state in which the self dissolves.続きを見る

Billy Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful." Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." The "New York Times calls him simply "the real thing." Over the past decade, Collins……続きを見る

Ten years in the making, the Pulitzer Prize and National BookAward-winning "Time and Materials" is the crowning achievement of former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.続きを見る

Rumi has never been more popular among American readers. Here is a pocket-sized collection of his inspiring poetry. "The Pocket Rumi" contains selections from four previously published books, as well as translations of Rumi's short lyric poems.続きを見る

In this book-length poem, translated for the first time into English and presented in a bilingual format, Nobel Laureate Neruda composes a "valediction to the Sixties" and confronts a grim disillusionment growing inside him.続きを見る

Following in the tradition of Seamus Heaney's reworking of "Beowulf," Armitage, one of England's leading poets, has produced a virtuoso new translation of the 600-year-old Arthurian story with both clarity and verve.続きを見る

A new collection of poetry by the noted Southern California author.続きを見る

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including "Beowulf." This edition includes a Preface by Raffel and a new Introduction. Revised reissue.続きを見る

The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is madeup exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Thepoems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that havebeen nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing p……続きを見る

Entering its fourth year, "Best NewPoets" has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poetsand a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, thisannual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yetpublished a full-length book. The poems in……続きを見る

On a soft summer Virginia evening Shelly Wagner was pushing her five-year-old son in a tire swing in the backyard, idling away the hours between dinner and bedtime. She left him only for a moment, but when she returned Andrew had disappeared. He was found later that night, drowned in the river beh……続きを見る

One of Darwish's last collections. Poems and musings on identity, love, peace--with irony, hope, and humor.続きを見る

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno's heartrending autobiographical collection inspires both compassion for and awe of the human spirit.続きを見る

A deft naturalist with a keen eye for details of nature, human and nonhuman. . . . Bradfield s poems delight. San Francisco Chronicle続きを見る

The erotic poems and drawings by e.e. cummings are now gathered in a single volume.続きを見る

The fifth and final collection of poems from one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose--and many would claim its most influential and imitated poet.続きを見る