Collected Poems
10 best books like Collected Poems (Jack Gilbert): Stag's Leap: Poems, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Native Guard, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, To the Wedding, About Looking, G., Black Zodiac, Time and Materials, Scary, No Scary
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375712259 |
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...
Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs,...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 0618872655 |
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and...
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
| Author | Deborah Solomon |
| ISBN | 0878466843 |
No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell abound--as the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679767770 |
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La scrittura di Berger mi ha subito avvolto, familiare, ma senza privarmi di stupore.
Questa volta mi ha sollevato e trasportato in un viaggio alla fonte del mito e del tempo.
Un viaggio fatto di nomi epici scelti con cura.
Di geografie dello spazio e della...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679736557 |
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see....
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679736549 |
In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and...
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374525366 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects...
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0061349607 |
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.
His...
| Author | Zachary Schomburg |
| ISBN | 0977770990 |
SCARY, NO SCARY, the follow-up to Zachary Schomburg's acclaimed first collection of poems THE MAN SUIT, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton keys--at once dark and playful. With loneliness and levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a liminal world of dream-logic, informed by its own...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 0571207790 |
Wallace Stevens’s verse—as exhibited in his first major work Harmonium (1923), published when he was forty-four—either jumps from one concrete sense impression to another, or else leaps beyond them all toward some particularized meditation filled with vivid imagery, lush sonority,...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0307960587 |
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from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from
the book itself/some of these poems are surreal/they
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| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0008800130 |
In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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