Poetry Books

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Travis Nichols is a young poet and novelist who invites readers into a world o... Travis Nichols is a young poet and novelist who invites readers into a world of relationships gone strange. In his poems everyday human behaviors become fraught with extraordinary significance. It s a delicate balance of orchestration and... more

This major epic poem cements Waldman’s place in the pantheon of contemporary... This major epic poem cements Waldman’s place in the pantheon of contemporary poetry. more

A poetic exploration of infidelity over the ages with 45 poems analysed by a m... A poetic exploration of infidelity over the ages with 45 poems analysed by a man whose business is assessing human foibles. more

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize... A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses essays confessions reports translations drafts treatises laments and utopias 1995-2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past... more

A keepsake edition gathering the lyrics of more than 80 of Gershwin s most pop... A keepsake edition gathering the lyrics of more than 80 of Gershwin s most popular songs Ira Gershwin once remarked that he always tried to capture the way people spoke to each other--their slang their clichés the catch phrases. Few people in ordinary... more

Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic T... Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de... more

In The Art of Poetry Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art ... In The Art of Poetry Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music wordplay and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms. A uniquely comprehensive... more

Iain Haley Pollock s poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish suppe... Iain Haley Pollock s poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish supper to an ancient queen who howls Sea you is ugly from the creaking of slave ships launched from Lancaster to gunfire on a contemporary Philadelphia street. Such lyric moments... more

No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass. --Atlantic Monthly The Na... No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass. --Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema the former Poet Laureate and... more

With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes a... With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes and Lycidas--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare Dante and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history. more

In this volume David R. Slavitt the distinguished translator and author of mor... In this volume David R. Slavitt the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction poetry and drama turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In... more

An essential collection of a highly original American poet Winner of the North... An essential collection of a highly original American poet Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 1965 when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty he left... more

Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the ... Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry-- a best anthology that really lives up to its title (Chicago Tribune). Eagerly anticipated by scholars students readers and poets alike... more

In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication Carol ... In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication Carol Shields s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time this fictionalized... more

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria and a colle... C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now however he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry and his poems are... more

The year 2011 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of New Directions and what b... The year 2011 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of New Directions and what better way to celebrate than to dive into the diversity of its poets reveling in the wonders and joys of nature. Arranged chronologically by each poet s birth Birds Beasts and... more

First volume of new series City Lights Spotlight: selected poems by a major av... First volume of new series City Lights Spotlight: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet. more

Selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the eighth annual A. Poulin Jr. Poetry... Selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the eighth annual A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. more

This is a short collection of poems by one of America s fine and widely publis... This is a short collection of poems by one of America s fine and widely published poets. It describes her close connection to nature and the land her love of her animals her relationship with the Tibetan Buddhists who live and work with her. She... more