 | Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
Release Date: March 29, 2005Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America’s premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel a...
 |  | Poems That Touch the Heart
Release Date: October 15, 1984With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse. ...
|  | Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)
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|  | The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: October 30, 2004| Series: New Directions Paperbook A groundbreaking anthology of classical Chinese translations by giants of Modern American poetry.A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Weinberger begins with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and includes translations by three other major U.S. poets—William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder—and an important poet-translator-scholar, David Hinton, all of who...
|  | River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Poetry and art through the eyes of children Water--in all its splendid forms--is the subject and inspiration behind the alluring artwork and astounding poetry presented in River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water. Rivers, lakes, oceans, rain, and tears come alive in pages of verse and full-color art. This collection is all the more remarkable because it was created by surprisingly young poets and artists. Culled from the annual River of Words art and poetry contest, here is an exceptional selection of creative work from young people (ages 5-19) ac...
|  | City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 2012 Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city’s history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America’s literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today’s slam poets. The one hundred contributors to this vibrant collection take their materials and their inspirations from the city itself in a way that continues this e...
|  | Love Letters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: January 23, 1996| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love. ...
|  | The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals
Publication Date: December 31, 2009Introduced and selected by Ralph Russell, an eminent Urdu scholar, this collection presents a representative selection of the works of Ghalib, the most famous and popular of the Urdu poets that the Indian subcontinent has produced. This complete Ghalib anthrology comprises poetry and prose translated from both Persian and Urdu, as well as biographical details. ...
|  | Amazing Faces
Publication Date: June 30, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and upAmazing, your face. Amazing.Whatever we feel-whether happy or sad, excited or wishful, proud or lonely-our faces mirror our emotions. In this contemporary yet timeless collection, sixteen evocative poems are brought to life in diverse and detailed faces that reveal the universal feelings we all share. Girls and boys, women and men invite us to experience their world, understand their lives, and find the connections that bring us together.Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers these insightful works from an impressive arr...
|  | The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz
Publication Date: May 15, 2007Háfiz is honored as the greatest lyric poet of Iran and the D'ván-i Háfiz, his collected poetry, is without doubt one of the world's greatest literary achievements. Translated here from the edition of Parv'z Nát'l Khánlar', the 486 poems have been rendered as literally as possible while trying to convey some sense of the original poetry to the reader who lacks knowledge of Persian. The ghazals are introduced and presented with extensive annotation by one of today's most eminent scholars of Persian literature...
|  | Maria Sabina: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003A shaman and visionary--not a poet in any ordinary sense--María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language--with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself--she was, as Henry Munn describes her, "a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-the...
|  | Gasoline (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series (Book 8) Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. His first book of poetry was published by City Lights Press in 1955. ...
|  | Great Poets Across America Vol. 4
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|  | Very Bad Poetry
Release Date: March 25, 1997Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, an...
|  | Great Occasions: Readings for the Celebration of Birth, Coming-Of-Age, Marriage, and Death
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Birth, maturity, marriage and death: These are the four cornerstones of human life, the great occasions. Over 650 memorable selections to commemorate the milestones of life. Poetry and prose from a broad spectrum of highly regarded writers, including Aiken, Pound, Dickinson, Seneca, Blake, Buddha, Bronte, Marcuse, Stevens, Sexton, Tagore, Lippman, Sandburg, Sarton, Pasternak, Lao Tzu, Yevtushenko, Yeats and many more.This treasury of words pays tribute to the watershed events of life. Prose and poetry selections are sorted by the occasion they...
|  | The Poetry Of Iranian Women
Publication Date: March 19, 2009The voice that comes through this book is daring rather than desperate, decisive rather than doleful, and fairly composed, given the constraints that govern the lives of the featured poets, as women and as artists. ...
|  | Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle is a form that has fascinated poets since its introduction almost two centuries ago. Many well-known poets in the past have tried their hands at the villanelle, and the form is enjoying a revival among poets writing ...
|  | The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: April 8, 1996new edition of great Afro-American poet's works...
|  | Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
Release Date: September 6, 2011“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’” Few students responded. No one knew Pearl London, the daughter of M. Lincoln Schuster, cofounder of Simon & Schuster. But the seminar’s first guests turned out to be John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Creely. Soon W. S. Merwin followed, then Mark Strand and Galway Kinnell.L...
|  | Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets (Bilingual Edition)
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