Oxford University Press, USA, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem..... More
R.S. Means Company, June 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and..... More
University of California Press, July 1981. Trade Paperback. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1980. Trade Paperback. Essays examine the life and work of this modern American poet, and his influence on contemporary writing. More
Routledge, May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Very tight, clean copy. Spine slightly cocked. More
Everyman's Library, October 1999. Cloth. From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than..... More
Penguin Books, August 2004. Trade Paperback. The father of African literature in the English language and undoubtedly one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. --Caryl Phillips, The Observer Chinua Achebe's award-winning poems are marked by a subtle richness and the political acuity and..... More
Ahsahta Press, January 2007. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Paige Ackerson-Kiely's IN NO ONE'S LAND "...stakes a claim on wilderness and, most assuredly, mannages to homestead there. These are not the poems borne of quiet contemplation; they are edgy and lurid, painfully administering to the..... More
Ahsahta Press, March 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Carrie Olivia Adams delves into a space defined by air and sky, each movement another scene of a movie re-filmed many times over. INTERVENING ABSENCE, a series of sequences that question silence and interaction (and which both stand alone and themselves..... More
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
Penguin Books, September 1973. Trade Paperback. More
New Directions, November 2021. Paper Back. "The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of..... More
NYRB Classics, September 2021. Paper Back. A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante's great poem about losing, and subsequently finding..... More
Ecco, July 2021. Hardcover. A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality..... More
BlazeVOX Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation, in a...... More
University of Iowa Press, October 2006. Hardcover. Through a dizzying array of references to subjects ranging from engineering to poetry, on-the-job experiences in academia and industry, conflicts between working-class and intellectual labor, the privatization of universities, and the contradictions of the modern environment, Joe Amato's Industrial Poetics mounts a boisterous..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1995. Trade Paperback. Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems--following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage--that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked..... More
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
The University of North Carolina Press, May 1999. Oversize Softcover. Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists..... More
Ecco Pr, October 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. A few notes on two pages else clean, tight copy. More
Natural History Press, May 2013. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, April 2006. Hardcover. Perfect for Mother's Day, or for any day on which we wish to acknowledge this all-important bond, Mother is an awe-inspiring affirmation of the enduring love that exists in every corner of the globe. With her signature eloquence and heartfelt appreciation, renowned poet and national..... More
DOUBLEDAY & CO INC, January 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} In DJ with darkening to margins and spine & scattered soiling and damp stains. Jacket verso darkening/foxing. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Worn edges bottom and top. Internal text is unmarked..... More
