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.

Wild Geese

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Gardners Books
ISBN: 9781852246280
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

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."

I Love Artists

Author: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520939107
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style—its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.

Continuum

Author: Mari Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
The distinguished poet Mari Evans writes unabashedly for and about African Americans, yet in her new collection, readers from all backgrounds can find profound insight into the human experience. Written without the flourish of fancy language, the poems are full of Evans's brilliance, humor, and musical expression. Included are signature poems such as "I am a Black Woman" as well as new works that paint an intimate portrait of contemporary African American life.

Pages from the Book of the Sun

Author: Niyi Osundare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description

Where Now

Author: Laura Kasischke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556595127
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives.

Spacecraft Voyager 1

Author: Alice Oswald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today. Spacecraft Voyager 1 collects poetry from across her career —new poems, selections from her first and more recent books, and the entirety of her masterwork to date, Dart, winner of the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize. Oswald's speaker—always curious, often whimsical, sometimes brash—becomes the river itself, as she gives voice to the natural world and the denizens along the river Dart in Devonshire, in their unique dialects and occupations. For the first time, Spacecraft Voyager 1 introduces American readers to an essential new poet..

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.