 | Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. ...
 |  | The Bones Below: Poems by Sierra DeMulder
Publication Date: March 15, 2010A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on the subtle joys and modern pains of living. Her debut collection The Bones Below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder's personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the young artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms. ...
|  | Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie
Publication Date: April 21, 2009An erudite and witty look at theabsurdity of the world around us from abrilliant poet and a greatcartoonist.Philip Appleman—award-winning poet, novelist,scholar, editor, social critic, and Darwinexpert—turns his hand to humorous and sometimesirreverent verse in this, his eighth book ofpoetry. Appleman’s poetry, exquisitely formed,is a delightful and accomplished romp throughsuch lofty themes as sex, religion, and agingthat gleefully skewers established thinking.X. J. Kennedy writes in the foreword: “Appleman is a master of the sonne...
|  | Donkey Gospel: Poems
Publication Date: February 1, 1998Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American PoetsIn his second collection of poems, Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle through line after line confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music, sons and lovers, truth and beauty, and so forth. From the boy who speaks only in "Kung Fu" dialogue to the guy who visits a lesbian bar and sees his mother, this often funny and always thoughtful book of poems offers fresh, surprisingly frank meditations on the credentials for contempo...
|  | Gentleman Practice
Publication Date: April 15, 2011Buddy Wakefield's third book, Gentleman Practice, documents the figurative contents of a man's body attempting to stand firm in the presence of all that is. It's a poetry book, from the perspective of a journal entry in the National Archives. The National Archives live in a building in Seattle behind barbed wire, directly next door to the Center for Spiritual Living. This is no accident. Gentleman Practice is a disarming de-haunting of accidents. There are no stunt doubles performing the honesty in this book.Head raised and victorious, he has crafted a transla...
|  | Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
Release Date: August 31, 2010The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick RoomNaturally, this will scare the civil rights out of some and, for a mad-moment, empower a great many wrong-cultured others. —from “The Return of Colored Only” Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers Ellis’s big, ambitious argument in sound and image for an America whose identity is in need of repair. In lyric seq...
|  | The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
Release Date: March 23, 2010 The Apple Trees at Olema includes work from Robert Hass's first five books—Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials—as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas. From the beginning, his poems have seemed entirely his own: a complex hybrid of the lyric...
|  | The Age of Huts (compleat) (New California Poetry)
Publication Date: April 9, 2007| ISBN-10: 0520250168 | ISBN-13: 978-0520250161| Edition: 1 Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, SunsetDebris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, mor...
|  | Different Hours: Poems
Publication Date: January 2002Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. "I am interested in exploring the 'different' hours," he says, "not only of one's life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal." ...
|  | Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: October 13, 1998| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry. ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
