 | You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
Publication Date: January 18, 2011A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure."[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."—Ann LauterbachIn a world where we find "everything helping itself / to everything else," Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific research, autobiographical detail, and historical anecdote to present an engaging lyric analysis of the way we live now. "It's your life," she tells the reader, "and we h...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | Above the River: The Complete Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 1992One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his Whtimanesque renderings of Neruda, Vallejo, and other Latin American poets, and from his heartfelt reflections on life, love, and loss in his native Ohio to the celebrated prose poems (set frequently in Italy) that marked the end of his important career, Above the River gathers the complete work of a modern master...
|  | The Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost
Release Date: March 18, 2003| Series: Voice of the Poet A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review. "To hear a poem spoken in the voice of the person who wrote it is not only to wi...
|  | 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 Lichtenberg Figures (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique—the vocabulary of academic theory collides w...
|  | River Flow: New & Selected Poems 1984-2007
Release Date: March 15, 2007David Whyte's body of work reflects the depth and breadth of a maturing artist, taking its readers on a passage through time and place, allowing us to bear witness to the constellation of difficulties, triumphs, adventures, losses, hopes and revelations that have shaped one particular human life.RIVER FLOW contains over one hundred poems selected from five previously published works, together with twenty-three new poems, including a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator, a meditation of love and benediction for his young daughter, and a cycl...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
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