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10 best books like Chicago: City on the Make (Nelson Algren): The War Poems, Chicago Poems, Poems and Songs, Division Street: America, Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series), The Complete Poems, The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library), Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Book of My Nights, Selected Poetry

The War Poems
AuthorSiegfried Sassoon
ISBN0571202659
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
Chicago Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
Chicago Poems was published in 1916 and was Sandburg's first major volume of poetry. Most of the poems are about the city that he loved, and he viewed it as only a poet could; in it's starkness, it's beauty, and it's people. In it's first poem, the title poem, Chicago, Sandburg's first verse reads:

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Poems and Songs
AuthorRobert Burns
ISBN0486268632
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer,
A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe--
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birthplace of valour, the country...
Division Street: America
AuthorStuds Terkel
ISBN1595580727
Division Street, Studs Terkel’s first book of oral history, established his reputation as America’s foremost oral historian and as “one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country” (in the words of Tom Wolfe).

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Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0822953145
Poems examine life as a child, a woman, and a mother; death; and our relationship to the world. This book, Olds's first, was published when she was 37, and it launched her Pulitzer-winning career.

I am trying to write my
way out of the closed box
redolent of cedar. Satan
comes to me...
The Complete Poems
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0140424512
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From...
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library)
AuthorDorothy Parker
ISBN0679601325
I'm not a big fan of poetry in general--with a few exceptions to that. Dorothy Parker is number one on that list. Not concerned with social etiquette at the time, she spoke her mind, and her writings clearly exhibit this trait. A prime example on her take of relationships:
SOCIAL NOTE
"Lady, lady,...
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
AuthorMiguel Algarín
ISBN0805032576
I'm currently reading some of the authors in the "Founding Poems" section of this book, for the Poets of Color class I'm teaching. As well, I've just recently read and will reread Miguel Algarín's introduction. I'm so interested especially in the section of this intro re: the Open Room, and the open...
Book of My Nights
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1929918089
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...
Selected Poetry
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0140585044
In the pantheon of English poets, Shelly has long occupied a lofty place, his poems as admired for their profound thought and subtle perceptions as for the music and fervor of their language. His life as well as his poetry embraced the passions, ideals and causes of Romanticism, whose emergence and early...
Renascence and Other Poems
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent...
Selected Poems
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0486268780
In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through...
Poetry and Prose
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN1883011353
Started on the expanded 530 page edition (1891-92) of "Leaves of Grass," the so called deathbed version. Reading as a periodic alternative to prose, this should keep me busy for a month or more. I had finished 1855 edition a few years ago, which is exquisite. His main device is the catalog. He inventories...
I Shall Not Be Moved
AuthorMaya Angelou
ISBN0553354582
In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique...
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