Author: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393319095
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this beautiful gathering . . . one encounters a poet who praises and mourns in turn and even at once." -- Grace Schulman, The Nation "Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it." -- C. K. Williams
Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780786717880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Culled from four decades of writing, a volume of multicultural poetry offers insight into the MacArthur fellow's spiritual and political beliefs as well as his journeys throughout America, Japan, Africa, and other regions, in an anthology that includes pieces on such topics as war, prejudice, and George W. Bush.
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348789
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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This retrospective collection of verse from the former US poet laureate and National Medal of Arts winner spans six decades of celebrated work. Throughout his writing life Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, and includes poems published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. Those who have come to love Donald Hall's poetry will welcome this vital and important addition to his body of work. For the uninitiated it is a spectacular introduction to this critically acclaimed and admired poet.
Author: Leslie Scalapino
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The poems embody ideas about writing and formal inventions, demonstrating how one invention leads to the next. -- Jacket flap.
Author: Dennis O'Driscoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Career-spanning introduction to one of Ireland's bestselling and most enjoyable poets.
Author: Tom Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Essential for all readers of progressive American poetry, this collection encompasses the exhilaration and joy, the madness and sorrow of the last forty years with a lyric intensity that, in the words of the poet Robert Creeley, offers a "wry and securing truth." A generous selection from the poet's career, Light and Shade is a major release from one of the country's most influential poets and critics.
Author: Robert Siegel
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781557254306
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A collection of inspirational poems explores the mystery of evil, the meaning of history, our own mysterious quests, the human search for transformative joy, and the quest to find the epiphanies in the ordinary, inviting readers to step outside of themselves into the worlds of others.
Author: John Tagliabue
Publisher: National Poetry Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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"His poems seem to appear in the world as naturally as wildflowers". -- Denise Levertov.
Author: Susan Stewart
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Salt to the Nth, like the truth of an ending unskeined across the crust of the white field. Though it happened only once, I am sending the thought of the thought continuing. To return to the field before the mowing. When a goldfinch swayed on a blue stem stalk, and the wind and the sun stirred the hay. —from “After the Mowing” Cinder: New and Selected Poems gathers for the first time poetry from across Susan Stewart’s thirty-five-year career, including many extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision, Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, both acute and shared. “Stewart explores our insatiable desire to remember and make meaning out of this remembering,” Ange Mlinko writes in The Nation. “Stewart’s elegiac bent has broadened, over time, from the personal lyric . . . to what might be called the cultural lyric. Fewer and fewer of her poems reference what she alone remembers; they are about what you and I remember.” Reading across this retrospective collection is a singular experience of seeing the unfolding development of one of the most ingenious and moving lyric writers in contemporary poetry.
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151015320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Spanning the period between 1964 and 2006, a new collection of poetry by the author of Dog Heart and Lady One includes many never-before-published works, including poems written in prison after being jailed in South Africa for his anti-apartheid activism, as well as 1960s works from Paris, and poems of exile from New York in the 1990s.
