Poetry
Autobiographies: Memories and Reflections
Senate Books. Trade Paperback. More
W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 (Revised)
Oxford Paperbacks, December 1998. Trade Paperback. In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading historian R. F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of his extraordinary life as he experienced it. 62 halftones..... More
Strong Is Your Hold
Houghton Mifflin, November 2006. Hardcover. More
Only Bread, Only Light: Poems
Copper Canyon Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of poetry's reliance upon visual imagery with Kuusisto's own sightlessness, these..... More
The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey--Poems and Prose Previously Unpublished in English
North Atlantic Books, August 2020. Trade Paperback. A never-before-seen volume of poetry by the preeminent poet laureate Herman Hesse--a beautiful companion to Seasons of the Soul and the author's better-known prose work. Organized into four parts--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--The Seasons of Life relates the transitions in nature to the..... More
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Tin House Books, February 2017. Trade Paperback. The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the..... More
The Tradition
Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era. Signed on the title page by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. More
Atlantis : Poems
Harpercollins, October 1995. Trade Paperback. The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist. More
Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry
Harvard University Press, May 2015. Hardcover. One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose--including the..... More
Delinquent Palaces: Poems
TriQuarterly, April 2015. Trade Paperback. What does it mean to pray or praise in the twenty-first century? What does it mean to lament, to attend? In this volatile, visionary debut collection, Danielle Chapman seeks "to be known / in one's own person as crocuses are known / by sun, conceiving..... More
Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)
Milkweed Editions, January 2024. Paper Back. Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home--as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with "a..... More
An African Elegy: Poems
Other Press, February 2024. Hardcover. This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the complex issues that have burdened Africa. First published in 1992, Ben Okri's remarkable debut collection features poems that are now considered classics and taught in schools and universities..... More
Odyssey
Penguin Books, November 2006. Trade Paperback. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of..... More
Iliad
Penguin Books, April 2003. Paper Back. E.V. Rieu's beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center..... More
Migration: New & Selected Poems
Copper Canyon Press, September 2007. Paper Back. Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry Named by O as one of the "20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own" "The poems in Migration speak a...... More
Musical Tables: Poems
Random House Trade Paperbacks, November 2023. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 135 small poems, eleven of them new to this edition, and each a thought or observation compressed to..... More
Selected Poems
Penguin Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang..... More
Collected Poetry (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became..... More
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Riverhead Books, April 1997. Paper Back. At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time -..... More
Turtle Island
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1974. Trade Paperback. These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might..... More
Why Poetry
Ecco, August 2017. Hardcover. An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry--and poetry alone--can do. Zapruder argues that the..... More
Pilgrim Bell: Poems
Graywolf Press, August 2021. Trade Paperback. Kaveh Akbar's exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging..... More
Dante (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Chelsea House Pub, January 1986. Hardcover. A collection of essays about the works of the Italian poet. More
Living Space: Poems of the Dutch 'Fiftiers'
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1979. Paper Back. Pages very crisp and clean. Cover reveals some wear, but it is uncreased. [86 pages]. More