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Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry. This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840--1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy's extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This...
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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century
Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries—and readers ever since—with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance,...
Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries—and readers ever since—with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance,...
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Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A selection of verse and prose poems published in earlier books along with previously unpublished new poems"--
"New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim AliKazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This volume gathers Hernton's poetic work from 1954 through to 1999-including uncollected poems and the complete text of Hernton's debut chapbook along with poems from Hernton's personal papers. The volume contains a chronology of Hernton's life and career, as well as editorial information with literary analysis and historical background"--
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke's most essential work – the perfect for the poetry lover. In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery. Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions...
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Beloved by contemporary German readers, the poetry of Max Sessner is gathered for the first time in English in Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems. Painstakingly chosen from Sessner's celebrated three collections and from new work, these poems employ a matter-of-fact magical realism to engage the profound, philosophical mysteries of the everyday. Sessner makes nimble use of the material world as he choreographs poignant reenactments of human...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past-- memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith-- winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his five previous volumes. "An engineer, poet, Cuban American...his poetry bridges cultures and languages-a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future-reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still becoming." -President Joe Biden, conferring the National Humanities Medal on Richard Blanco, 2023"--
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Meditations on city life in Mumbai, Calcutta, and the United Kingdom as well as elegies for the dead populate this original collection. Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry throughout his career as a novelist, poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that work...
11) Besaydoo: poems
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home-as place, as people, as body, and as language"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri writes of love and the place of Arab women in the modern age. "I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman," she writes, "my freedom is so difficult and so desired." Her poems - presented here in a bilingual format - invoke the intoxicating power of seduction and the intensity of lust, the security of relationships and the muffled explosions of emotion."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Still Falling expands on Jennifer Grotz's precise sense of craft and voice to investigate new territory in this astonishing collection. These poems are emotionally raw and introspective, exploring the profound capaciousness of grief. Grotz carefully and deftly carries the weight of losses and their aftermaths--the deaths of the poet's mentors, friends, and mother; the endings of relationships; and the enclosures of a life spent in attendance to the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan has brought international attention to his country’s struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, Zhadan honors the memory of the lost and addresses the living, inviting us to consider what language can offer to a country threatened with extinction. Young lovers, marginalized outsiders,...
17) Fixer
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. The virtuosic central sequence explores the untimely death of the poet's estranged father, a handyman and addict, and the brothers left to sort through the detritus of a life long lost to them. Through lyrical, darkly humorous vignettes, Kunz asks...
Author
Publisher
Litmus Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vibrating with rich imagery rooted in Fathy's long experience in film, this is a distinctly urban poetry that demands accountability while also offering compassion rooted in deep listening-to the body, to history, to others-and to the ongoing conversation that is the attentive life. The I and the you at the heart of this collection continually shift and overflow to encompass a vigorous humanity. A riveting work that gives English readers new access...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize-winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment. Twenty thousand years after a catastrophe wiped out the human race, visitors uncover their final messages scattered across the planet, in flooded cities and disintegrating books. These writings reveal the tragedies of people who continued to live as they always did-fearfully, selfishly-even as the...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 20
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems evokes the author's youth and the immigrant experience in America.
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