Such Color

Such Color

Author: Tracy K. Smith

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 164445159X

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“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —Vogue Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first career-spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smith’s four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep of history; when one encounters death and the outer reaches of space, the next bears witness to violence against language and people from across time and delves into the rescuing possibilities of the everlasting. Smith’s signature voice, whether in elegy or praise or outrage, insists upon vibrancy and hope, even—and especially—in moments of inconceivable travesty and grief. Such Color collects the best poems from Smith’s award-winning books and culminates in thirty pages of brilliant, excoriating new poems. These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. This magnificent retrospective affirms Smith’s place as one of the twenty-first century’s most treasured poets.


New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

Author: Stephen Dunn

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1995-05-17

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 039331300X

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Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."


New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

Author: Mary Oliver

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.


Half/Life: New & Selected Poems

Half/Life: New & Selected Poems

Author: Jeffrey Thomson

Publisher: Alice James Books

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 194857960X

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“The quirky and macabre [ninth] book from Thomson is rich with breathtaking juxtaposition. ... These elegant poems are full of surprising and moving revelations.” —Publishers Weekly


Gary Soto

Gary Soto

Author: Gary Soto

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811807586

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Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.


New & Selected Poems

New & Selected Poems

Author: Ron Padgett

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This is the definitive selection of work by one of the wittiest, most inventive poets currently writing. Ron Padgett, author of Great Balls of Fire, Triangles in the Afternoon, and other highly acclaimed books, stands alongside his fellow New York School associates John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler as a major voice of American modernism. His work runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance to wild ricochets of the imagination. The heady circumvolutions of his poems are never less than surprising, and are frequently breathtaking in their ability to blend comedy and pathos in a graceful, mercurial lyricism.


Where Now

Where Now

Author: Laura Kasischke

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781556595127

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives.


New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems

Author: Ted Hughes

Publisher: New York ; Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Harper & Row

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.