Breathing the Water
10 best books like Breathing the Water (Denise Levertov): Behind My Eyes [With CD], Dien Cai Dau, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, Human Wishes, After, Here, Bullet, Questions About Angels, Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
| Author | Li-Young Lee |
| ISBN | 0393065421 |
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0819511641 |
Most days, I sit in a Center for Writing, reviewing papers for college students, and clarifying the proper formatting and style required by the Modern Language Association (MLA), as relates to scholastic writing. As I notice varying writing styles, I suggest books for students to read, based on their...
| Author | Jane Kenyon |
| ISBN | 1555972667 |
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
| Author | Czesław Miłosz |
| ISBN | 0060188677 |
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0880012129 |
my boyfriend studied with robert haas in grad school. my dad lives in the same neighborhood as robert haas and keeps meeting him at uc berkeley lectures where they end up seated together. when my dad and my boyfriend met, they bonded by unceasingly talking about robert haas as "bob." this sounds slightly...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060779195 |
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
| Author | Brian Turner |
| ISBN | 1882295552 |
Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0822942119 |
Billy Collins can pack the house. Funny and laid-back, his clear, often brief poems are easy to understand and enjoy -- which is why his readings are sometimes standing-room-only affairs. Collins may be a college professor and NEA-grant recipient, but he's not above using a disinfectant ad as an epigraph....
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0807063932 |
Part poetry anthology, part critical treatise, Leaping Poetry is a major statement by one of American's most distinguished poets. Bly's thesis is that great works of art contain leaps within themselves: 'A poet who is leaping makes a jump from an object soaked in unconscious substance to an object...
| Author | C.D. Wright |
| ISBN | 1556592167 |
C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.
Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
| Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| ISBN | 1619024829 |
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375709983 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582430063 |
Berry’s Sabbath poems embrace much that is elemental to human life--beauty, death, peace, and hope.In his preface to the collection, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life...
| Author | Richard Wilbur |
| ISBN | 0156654911 |
Reading the first half of this volume was giving me an inferiority complex as a poet. But as I made my way progressively backward through his work I eventually became bored. Wilbur writes so consistently beautifully in his maturity that his earlier poems rarely compare, though in Ceremony, we do get...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393038688 |
A new book of poems by one of America's most distinguished poets.
"When does a life bend toward freedom? grasp its direction?" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1593760809 |
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye.
Danger on Peaks begins...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0448000660 |
As a student at Harvard, Cummings was introduced to the works of avant garde poets and writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. He developed an interested that led to the development of his style, which ignored conventional grammar and syntax.
To begin with, the collection is dedicated......
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385046928 |
With Roethke's sudden, tragic death in 1963, a great poetic career was brought to an untimely end. "The Far Field" presents the most rewarding of his many volumes of poetry, both in brilliance of style and inner meaning. All of the poems have appeared previously in periodicals such as "The Atlantic Monthly,...
