The Collected Poems

Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062669451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

Collected Poems

Author: Kingsley Amis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178661
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: “Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I’m asbestos, see?”

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author: James Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0679426310
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 738

Book Description
Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Collected Poems

Author: James Merrill
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 918

Book Description
An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.

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

Directed by Desire

Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 690

Book Description
Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

Collected Poems

Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780880011747
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. No to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness. -- Czeslaw Milosz

The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Author: Robert B. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616416
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520201668
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 626

Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.