 | Coal Mountain Elementary
Publication Date: April 1, 2009A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for “regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature,” Mark Nowak regularly leads...
 |  | The Father
Release Date: April 21, 1992The Father is often regarded as Sharon Olds’ most important and powerful single book. In its poems, Olds narrows her focus to a sequence of startling and provocative poems about a daughter’s final days with her dying father. It is an elegant, passionate examination of love and loss, a bittersweet, transcendent elegy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Plume: Poems (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series)
Publication Date: February 15, 2012| Series: Pacific Northwest Poetry Series Washington State Poet Laureate, 2012-2014The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at...
|  | Selected Levis: Revised Edition (Pitt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: January 26, 2003| Series: Pitt Poetry Series Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left isevement that will enrich our lives. Each of his books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books: Wrecking Crew (...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Dispatch from the Future: Poems
Release Date: July 24, 2012"I love these poems." —Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love. Post-confessional—like Sylvia Plath raised on MTV, or Anne Sexton on Twitter—the poems seduce with a narrative hook or startle with a pop culture reference, all the while wrestling fresh meaning out of our fantasy-saturated mod...
|  | Martain & Meditations on the South Valley
Publication Date: November 1, 1987Product DetailsPaperback: 104 pages Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; Later printing edition (November 1, 1987) Language: English ...
|  | Loving Through Heartsongs
Release Date: January 7, 2003attie J.T. Stepanek has won the hearts of millions with his inspiring poems from his first two New York Times bestsellers. Now he's ready to spread a little love with Loving Through Heartsongs, a beautiful collection of poems written about innocence and trusting love from a child's perspective. Mattie's struggle with muscular dystrophy has never kept him from feeling deep love for his family, friends, country, and faith-heartfelt emotions that are reflected throughout these pages. ...
|  | Tell Me (American Poets Continuum)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 1880238918 | ISBN-13: 978-1880238912Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss. ...
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