Begin Again: Collected Poems
10 best books like Begin Again: Collected Poems (Grace Paley): Gulf Music: Poems, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, Star Dust, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Migration: New and Selected Poems, This Time: New and Selected Poems, World's Tallest Disaster: Poems, Red Suitcase, The Collected Poems, The Republic of Poetry: Poems
| Author | Robert Pinsky |
| ISBN | 0374167494 |
Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.
Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation
And invention, is this the image of the promised...
| Author | Donald Hall |
One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
| Author | Frank Bidart |
| ISBN | 0374269734 |
Throughout his work,...
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 1556592183 |
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin...
| Author | Gerald Stern |
| ISBN | 0393319091 |
| Author | Cate Marvin |
| ISBN | 1889330612 |
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 1880238152 |
| Author | Muriel Rukeyser |
| ISBN | 0822959240 |
| Author | Martín Espada |
| ISBN | 0393062562 |
The Republic of Poetry
by Martín Espada
Hardcover 96 pages
W.W. Norton, October, 2006
One cannot read the title to Martín Espada’s new book, The Republic of Poetry without recalling Plato’s banning of poets from his republic due...
| Author | J.D. McClatchy |
| ISBN | 0679741151 |
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0679765948 |
On guard
I want you for my bodyguard,
to curl round each other like two socks
matched and balled in a drawer.
I want you to warm my backside,
two S's snaked curve to curve
in the down burrow...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 1555973094 |
In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken...
Breaking Poems
| Author | Suheir Hammad |
| ISBN | 0981913121 |
| 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 | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555974756 |
Pure conflict. Its own undoing.
Breeze of dreams, then certain death.
--from "History"
Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead...
Selected Poems
| Author | Simon Armitage |
| ISBN | 0571210767 |
Elsewhere Armitage says that he's interested in poems that...
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1929918550 |
New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995
| Author | Thomas Lux |
Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human...
| Author | Julio Cortázar |
| ISBN | 0872863336 |