Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
10 best books like Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 (W.G. Sebald): The Antigone Poems, The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems, Collected Works, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Collected Lyrics, From the New World: Poems 1976-2012, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Young Eliot: A Biography, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
| Author | Marie Slaight |
| ISBN | 0980644704 |
Passionate, brutal, and infused with extraordinary lyricism, The Antigone Poems provides a special expedition into the depths of the ancient Sophocles tragedy. The work’s obsessive, ritualistic and ultimately mysterious force brings into sharp focus the heroic, tragic figure at the center...
The Gorgeous Nothings — the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts ever to appear — is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes. A never-before-possible...
| Author | Lorine Niedecker |
| ISBN | 0520224337 |
"The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one...
| Author | Helen Vendler |
| ISBN | 0674048679 |
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| ISBN | 0060908637 |
Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923, and when she published one of her collections, "Huntsman, What Quarry " it made the bestseller list. Can you imagine a book of poetry on the bestseller list today? I have always loved her poetry and it was fun to reread the old favorites and discover some...
| Author | Jorie Graham |
| ISBN | 0062315404 |
An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.
The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 0887484670 |
from Indeed I Was Pleased with the World by Mary Ruefle:
Grief
First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
| Author | David Lehman |
| ISBN | 0743243501 |
A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry...
| Author | Robert Crawford |
| ISBN | 0374279446 |
A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most important poets
On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a definitive biography of this poetic genius. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century’s...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Ruth Stone |
| ISBN | 1556592078 |
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”—Galway Kinnell on...
| Author | Robert Pinsky |
| ISBN | 1451658877 |
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry
THIS SPECIAL EDITION CELEBRATES twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. The Best American Poetry is the most...
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American...
| Author | Wisława Szymborska |
| ISBN | 0544126025 |
A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection
One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws...
Wheel with a Single Spoke: and other poems
| Author | Nichita Stănescu |
| ISBN | 1935744151 |
"...The poet comes into possession of an important, essential message, one that has the prestige and mystery of eternity…." —Daniel Cristea-Enache
For the first time in English: the beloved poems of Nichita Stanescu, Romania's most influential postwar poet. In his world, angels...
| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
| ISBN | 0811218015 |
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging...
| Author | Machi Tawara |
| ISBN | 0870119206 |
Salad Anniversary, first published in 1987 in Japan to tremendous following, is now being published By Pushkin Press and will now be available for an American audience. It is comprised of Tawara's tanka poetry on a variety of subjects, most very personal insights into modern life and love. This was...
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 1904634486 |
In this, his 75th year, Tomas Transtromer can be clearly recognised not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Transtromer is...
| Author | Bob Hicok |
| ISBN | 0822959534 |
I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close the door of summer behind them, their heads floating on the golden tips, on waves that flock and break like starlings changing their minds in the middle of changing their minds, I saw their hips lie down inside those birds, inside the day of shy...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0547928289 |
“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles Times
For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393285111 |
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.
This collected...
| Author | Timothy Donnelly |
| ISBN | 1933517476 |
"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-knowledge can be adequate to knowledge of the world, in all its violence and complexity."—Allen Grossman
Timothy Donnelly's long-awaited second collection is a tour de force, fully invested...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0143106430 |
Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout...
| Author | David Orr |
| ISBN | 0143128191 |
A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place
Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected...
