New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807068888
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.

New and Selected Poems

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.

Gary Soto

Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811807586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.

New and Selected Poems 1974-1994

Author: Stephen Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039331300X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939

Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224597
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—." So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
Collection of poems of William Carlos Williams from 1939-1962

That Said

Author: Jane Shore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547687117
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
A collection of poetry spanning five decades chronicles the author's childhood as the daughter of dressmakers in Bergen, New Jersey, as well as the everyday experiences in her adult life. By the author of Music Minus One.

Selected Poems II

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395454060
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.

New & Selected Poems

Author: Ron Padgett
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This is the definitive selection of work by one of the wittiest, most inventive poets currently writing. Ron Padgett, author of Great Balls of Fire, Triangles in the Afternoon, and other highly acclaimed books, stands alongside his fellow New York School associates John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler as a major voice of American modernism. His work runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance to wild ricochets of the imagination. The heady circumvolutions of his poems are never less than surprising, and are frequently breathtaking in their ability to blend comedy and pathos in a graceful, mercurial lyricism.

Without End

Author: Adam Zagajewski
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528616
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps talking to itself in the monotone of a vagabond who no longer recalls exactly how long he's been on the road. Swimming is like prayer: palms join and part, join and part, almost without end. --from "On Swimming" Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners--and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."