The Last Thing

Author: Patrick Rosal
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892555327
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A momentous collection from the author of Brooklyn Antediluvian, winner of the 2017 Lenore Marshall Prize from Academy of American Poets For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry. The son of Filipino immigrants (his father was a lapsed Catholic priest), he has made a life of bridging worlds—literary, ethnic, national, spiritual—through his poetry, and has been recognized with some of the highest honors and countless devoted readers. The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, gives us a substantial playlist of new work—hard-hitting and big-hearted—along with ample selections from his first four books. Bursting with music, infused with love and awe, this is essential reading from a poet of vigor and conscience.

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Author: Wisława Szymborska
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544126025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 467

Book Description
Collects translations of poems from throughout the author's career, including several new translations, including her entire final collection in English for the first time.

Eros, Eros, Eros

Author: Odysseas Elytēs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Olga Broumas has chosen poems from the full range of Odysseas Elytis's Nobel Prize-winning poetry, including his early work when he was associated with the Surrealists, to the entirety of his long poem The Little Mariner, as well as a previously unavailable selection of his last poems, written shortly before his death in 1996. Elytis himself offers the best description of his work: If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.

The Darkening Trapeze

Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1555977278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic masterpieces he is known for. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son. The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.

The Dream We Carry

Author: Olav H. Hauge
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592884
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 469

Book Description
This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Café' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native Polish language. He also remembers his schooldays in 'The World', and in 'Bypassing Rue Descartes' recalls the Paris streets of his student years, displaying both tenderness and tough-minded fury towards those who shaped his experiences. Writing not about abstract emotions, but about the horrors and beauty that he directly observed, Milosz opens our eyes to the joy-bringing potential of the poetry to which he gave his life. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Selected and Last Poems

Author: Paul Zweig
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819511591
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Presents works selected from four previous collections of verse, including "Against Emptiness," "Eternity's Woods," "The Dark Side of the Earth," and "Last Poems"

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

The Government Lake

Author: James Tate
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062914731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor’s death. A baby is born transparent. James Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent,” (New York Times) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative. With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form.

Selected Poems

Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 220

Book Description