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10 best books like Collected Poems (James Merrill): The Complete Poems, Collected Poems, 1943-2004, Contemporary American Poetry, The Selected Poems, Loose Sugar, The Blue Estuaries, Poems 1968-1998, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, 1937-1971

The Complete Poems
AuthorHart Crane
ISBN0871401789
This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July...
Collected Poems, 1943-2004
AuthorRichard Wilbur
ISBN0156030799
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters. Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most referenced trove of this beloved poet's best...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
The Selected Poems
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393303969
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:

and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)

This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
Loose Sugar
AuthorBrenda Hillman
ISBN0819522430
Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised -- love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar -- are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold,...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

Up...
Poems 1968-1998
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528446
"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.

Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts...
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374530769
From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374514003
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised...
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
Middle Earth: Poems
AuthorHenri Cole
ISBN0374529280
Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Schuyler
ISBN0374524033
§ James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem, consists of a series of poems placed in three sections, in which “New Poems” make up the first cycle. In “New Poems,” which include 14 poems of varying length, Schuyler’s eye inhabits a place that owes not so much to a camera eye, but to a roving,...
No Nature: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0679742522
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
Repair
AuthorC.K. Williams
ISBN0374527067
Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets

"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
Always, "What will have been done to me?"
And so we don our mental armor,
flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.
A violent...
The End of Beauty
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0880016167
This podcast (a Q&A between Graham and Silverblatt) helped me tremendously in my reading of Graham: http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/jor...

I love the story in this of Graham's teenage daughter coming to her and saying that she felt "bad." Graham's response: a thesaurus, to look...
The Collected Poems
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393322947
The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz remains ardent in celebrating life....
In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
AuthorFrank Bidart
ISBN0374522715
I fear too many poets these days are considered "good" merely because they're different, their aesthetic hard, their poetry disarming. Bidart is all of these things, but deserving of our highest praises because his poetry transcends gimmicks to become a new verse, one that is beautiful and painful....
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811214583
A CRYPTIC SIGN

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...
Collected Poems 1956–1987
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN1598530283
With this volume The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of America’s preeminent living poet. Long associated with the New York School that came to the fore in the 1950s, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations...
Selected Poems
AuthorTheodore Roethke
ISBN1931082782
Selected Poems includes poems from six collections by Theodore Roethke, including: Open House , The Lost Son & Other Poems , Praise to the End! , The Waking: Poems: 1933 - 1953 , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse , The Far Field . In addition, this selection includes Roethke's Poems...
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