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Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780786717880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulled 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: Gerald Stern
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780393319095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Timothy Steele
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 0804010900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first new collection in twelve years by renowned California poet and New Formalist, Timothy Steele. A quiet intelligence pervades the lines of these poems and reinforces Steele's mastery of form and image.
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-12-03
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0547348789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780899199542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author: Leslie Scalapino
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-08
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0520254627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poems embody ideas about writing and formal inventions, demonstrating how one invention leads to the next. -- Jacket flap.
Author: Clive James
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1743534450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for Clive, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book he presents a distillation of all he's learned about the art form that matters to him most. With his customary wit, delightfully lucid prose style and wide-ranging knowledge, Clive explains the difference between the innocuous stuff that often passes for poetry today and a real poem: the latter being a work of unity that insists on being heard entire and threatens never to leave the memory. A committed formalist and an astute commentator, Clive offers close and careful readings of individual poems and poets (from Shakespeare to Larkin, Keats to Pound), and in some case second readings or re-readings late in life - just to be sure he wasn't wrong the first time! Whether discussing technical details of metaphorical creativity or simply praising his five favourite collections of all time, he is never less than captivating. Filled with insight and written with an honest, infectious enthusiasm, Poetry Notebook is the product of over fifty years of writing, reading, translating and thinking about poetry.
Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 030755855X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. Koch, in this new book, talks to things important in his life -- to Breath, to World War Two, to Orgasms, to the French Language, to Jewishness, to Psychoanalysis, to Sleep, to his Heart, to Friendship, to High Spirits, to his Twenties, to the Unknown. He makes of all these "new addresses" an exhilarating autobiography of a most surprising and unforeseeable kind.
Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571218158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.
Author: Stanley Kunitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780393316155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "Touch Me," the last poem in the collection, Kunitz propounds a question, "What makes the engine go?" and gives us his answer: "Desire, desire, desire." These poems fairly hum with the energy, the excitement, the ardor, that make Kunitz one of our most enduring and highly honored poets. In the words of Carolyn Forch , "he is a living treasure."
