Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Author: Ted Hughes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-07-13

Total Pages: 1380

ISBN-13: 0374529655

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All the poems of a great 20th-century poet.


Warning

Warning

Author: Jenny Joseph

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 180081142X

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'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book Guide Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a cheeky rebel with outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, poet Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends and remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike around the world. Here, 'Warning' appears as a beautiful updated edition with new illustrations; the perfect gift for a friend or relative who wants to grow older free from expectations, with a joyful and rebellious spirit.


Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Author: Louis Johnson

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780864733504

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Louis Johnson (1924-1988) published many volumes of verse over 45 years. This selection comes from all phases of his career, with reprints of many difficult to obtain works. Includes a biographical introduction and many of Johnson's own comments on the origins and inspirations of his poems. Terry Sturm is Professor of English the University of Auckland, a friend and colleague of Johnson.


Working Classics

Working Classics

Author: Peter Oresick

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780252061332

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A diverse collection of 169 poems by 74 poets writing about blue- collar America at work. Arrangement is by author, with indexing that gives access by subjects such as accidents, after work, bosses, various industries, retirement, sabotage, pride in work. The theme of work is a central and evocative one, and this collection brings its importance home.


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.


Pepper Grease

Pepper Grease

Author: Hardy Keith Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781475962215

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An eclectic collection of poems which explore themes of harmony and existence, the beauty of nature, and cultural challenges, Pepper Grease paints a canvass upon the whims of mankind, the social and political climate of our time, the rhythmic dimensions of music and dance, the complexities of our philosophical quests, and the radiance of natural light and cosmic energy. Using the succinct poetic forms of haiku and senryu, the structures of traditional rhyme, and free verse, the book juxtaposes the essence of nature's grand scheme and the curious expressions of human consciousness and behaviors; Pepper Grease reflects the merits of struggle and the rewards of achievement simultaneously. Pushing the emotional edges of anger and sadness through to the abyss of loneliness and despondency, and the emergence of hope and promise ~ together ~ the poems are a celebration of our humanitarian endowments, the vigorous realization of our evolving vision for creating and generating a better world vibrant with intelligent design, equitable prosperity, and universal compassion for all.


Unreconciled

Unreconciled

Author: Michel Houellebecq

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0374716935

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Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles A shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions. Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedication, and—ultimately—redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transportation, indifferent landscapes and lonely nights, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos. Told through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, Unreconciled stands in the tradition of Baudelaire while making a bold new claim on contemporary verse. It reveals that in addition to his work as an incisive novelist, Houellebecq is one of our most perceptive poets with a vision of our era that brims with tensions that cannot—and will not—be reconciled.