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Author
Publisher
City Lights / Grey Fox
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Completely reformatted, featuring a new introduction by O'Hara expert and friend, poet and art critic Bill Berkson, and originally published under Donald Allen's Grey Fox Press imprint, Poems Retrieved is a substantial part of Frank O'Hara's oeuvre. The volume contains over two hundred pages of previously unpublished poetry discovered after the publication of his posthumous Collected Poems in 1971.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented,...
9) Happy life
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A favorite of Garrison Keillor, David Budbill continues his popular ruminations on a "chop wood, carry water" life in Vermont.
11) The undefeated
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
12) Odes
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender “Ode to the Hymen,” Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as a daughter, mother, wife, lover, friend, and poet...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Essential Poems of Jim Harrison is distilled from nearly 1,000 poems that appeared in fourteen volumes--from visionary lyrics and meditative suites to shape-shifting ghazals and prose-poem letters. Teeming throughout these pages are Harrison's legendary passions and appetites, his meditations, rages, and love-songs to the natural world. The New York Times concluded a review from early in Harrison's career with a provocative quote: 'This is poetry...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus,' a riveting narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times...
18) 81 famous poems
Publisher
Audio Partners Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A collection of 81 of the world's best loved and known poems. The readings are presented in the order they appear in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition". Thirty-nine major poets are included from Shakespeare, Blake, and Wordsworth to Keats, the Brownings, Whitman, Dickinson and Yeats.
19) Robert Frost
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets.
Author
Series
Women are some kind of magic volume 1
Language
English
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"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration."--Publisher's website.
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