Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
10 best books like Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Adrienne Rich): Complete Poems, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Life Studies and For the Union Dead, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, The Complete Poems
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0140188517 |
I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.
Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0385351054 |
"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done--by the...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0679750800 |
| Author | Anne Sexton |
| ISBN | 0618057048 |
| Author | Perry Miller |
| ISBN | 0674613066 |
| Author | Helen Vendler |
| ISBN | 0674048679 |
| Author | Robert Lowell |
| ISBN | 0374506280 |
I’ve been a bad, bad little aspiring poet. Naughtily, I’ve avoided reading a single collection of poetry—by a male writer—in all my years of writing, and, perhaps more criminally, done so even throughout...
| Author | Robert Pinsky |
| ISBN | 0374525064 |
Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole...
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0374513058 |
| Author | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ISBN | 0374530769 |
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 1883011450 |
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0393924912 |
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0679733019 |
So, the other day I got this book from a Used Book Store ( for 2 dollars . I dug Strand out from a pile of other books which he was buried under ).
Found a couple of my favorite...
| Author | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| ISBN | 0813914388 |
This 1994 collected edition of Dunbar's poetry reprints the 1913 Completed Works and adds an addition 60 or so poems that were not included in that posthumous volume. Dunbar's poetry takes on a wide variety of styles, genres, and forms and the most distinct difference in...
| Author | John Clare |
| ISBN | 0374528691 |
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology...
| Author | H.D. |
| ISBN | 0811210669 |
| Author | Judy Grahn |
| ISBN | 0884470237 |
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375710760 |
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811214583 |
August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.
AWARE
When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060752475 |
| Author | Linda Hogan |
| ISBN | 1566890101 |
I'm going to leave this here for easy reference, as I'm reading a borrowed copy:
(p.19)
I...
Why Things Burn
| Author | Daphne Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1887128654 |
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