Crave Radiance
Crave Radiance

Author: Elizabeth Alexander

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555975685

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The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. —from "Allegiance" Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 gathers twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

Author: Maxine Kumin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-04-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0393076490

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"Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection." --Book Jacket.

Selected Poems, 1990
Selected Poems, 1990

Author: Dennis Joseph Enright

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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A professor of English who has taught in such countries as Germany, Egypt and Japan, D.J. Enright has published books of poetry, books for children, novels, and numerous volumes of critical essays and memoirs. Known for his wise, wry and perceptive work, this highly skilled and cunning craftsman tackles social, political, and literary topics with high intelligence and humor. Enright's poetry possesses the power for engaged commentary and is a welcome reminder that poetry finds its vitality, not in theories, but in the experiences of personal life and history. This selection of poems, made with advice from the author, will serve as the ideal introduction to the work of this distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, anthologist, and critic.

Selected Poetry, 1937–1990
Selected Poetry, 1937–1990

Author: João Cabral de Melo Neto

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780819522313

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Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. This bilingual anthology brings together a representative selection from more than a half century of this distinguished Brazilian poet's lifetime work. Along with previously translated poems are many others in English for the first time. The remarkable group of poets and translators includes Elizabeth Bishop, Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Louis Simpson, and W. S. Merwin.

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.

Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000
Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000

Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 376

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R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.

Poems of R.S. Thomas
Poems of R.S. Thomas

Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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R. S. Thomas writes his often dour lines out of the hard landscape of the Welsh hills. His poems are so much a part of that land that farmers and their families, people he calls by name, walk inside them.