Poetry

Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009

by Lawrence Welsh & V.B. Price

The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter...

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings

by Alice Walker

In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced...

Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments

by Burton Raffel & Guy Davenport

“For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece–a carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing clarity and grace , a distinctive voice that, taken as a whole,...

The Exodus: A Collection of Poetry

by Leonard J. Warrick

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The Exodus: A Collection of Poetry is a unique and special look into the soul of author Leonard J. Warrick. His poems were written in the winter of 2004-2005, when the author was 38 years old, and...

The Even More Complete Book Of Australian Verse: Text Classics

by John Clarke

Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V....

Flight Among the Tombs: Poems

by Anthony Hecht

Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since...

The Metabolism of Desire

by Guido Cavalcanti & David R Slavitt

The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the "sweet...

Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems

by Barry Gifford

A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives....

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2004

by Franz Wright

In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside...

The Soul in Love: Classic Poems of Ecstasy and Exaltation

by Deepak Chopra

No love is more consuming and passionate than that one has for God. And nothing is more beautiful than that love when it is expressed as poetry.

In The Soul in Love, Deepak Chopra presents us with five great...

Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt

by Robert Hass & Tom Pohrt

Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth...

Selected Poetry

by John Hollander

“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. ...

Picture Window: Poems

by John Hollander

In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the...

A Draft of Light: Poems

by John Hollander

A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets.

Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird...

A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems

by Adam Clay

The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clay’s A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World often arrive at that moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person suddenly realizes he can...

Li'l Bastard

by David McGimpsey

Pop culture sonnets as a midlife-crisis confessional. Li'l Bastard covers the three poetic Bs: baseball, beer, and Barnaby Jones.

Divide and Rule

by Walid Bitar

Acclaimed poet explores the West's violent collision with the Arab world.

Match

by Helen Guri

Robert Brand has given up on real women. Relationships just haven't ever worked out well for him. He has, however, found a (somewhat problematic) solution, a new feminine ideal: the 110-pound sex doll he ordered...

Collected Poems 1953-1993

by John Updike

“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the...

Telephone Poles and Other Poems

by John Updike

WHEN, five years and five books of fiction ago, THE CARPENTERED HEN, John Updike’s first collection of verse, was published, Phyllis McGinley wrote: “I have been happily reading Mr. Updike in The New Yorker...