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10 best books like Come, Thief (Jane Hirshfield): The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Behind My Eyes [With CD], Dancing in Odessa, The Game of Boxes: Poems, The Shadow of Sirius, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993, Winter Stars, Facts About the Moon, Time and Materials

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
AuthorKay Ryan
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,...
Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
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...
Dancing in Odessa
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1932195122
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language....
The Game of Boxes: Poems
AuthorCatherine Barnett
ISBN1555976204
The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose “poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made” (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post)

 

Everyone asks us what we're afraid of
but children aren't supposed to say.
We could put loneliness on the list.
We...
The Shadow of Sirius
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556592841
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.

Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly.

"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth,...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
AuthorDonald Hall
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.

One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993
AuthorHeather McHugh
ISBN0819512168
When McHugh got the MacArhtur nod last year, it made me scramble to find some of her work on the internets, but as anyone who's read McHugh knows, I think that's a bad way to read her work.... These are poems that I think require a level of attention, to sound as well as idea, that I can't quite sustain when I'm...
Winter Stars
AuthorLarry Levis
ISBN0822935112
Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. ...
Facts About the Moon
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN0393329623
This is a great collection. I can't get over how well she uses image, how image opens and opens and you become swept up in it, and suddenly see that you've been privy to an entire story that now, in a way, has become part of your own life. There's much sensuality, some humor, tremendous tenderness and joy.

The...
Time and Materials
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0061349607
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...
Space, in Chains
AuthorLaura Kasischke
ISBN1556593333
Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in Space,...
In the Next Galaxy
AuthorRuth Stone
ISBN1556592078
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”—Galway Kinnell on...
Even in Quiet Places
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1881090167
This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range...
Alive Together
AuthorLisel Mueller
ISBN0807121282
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the...
Like a Beggar
AuthorEllen Bass
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015

Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac

“Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”—The New York Times

“Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences...
Trances of the Blast
AuthorMary Ruefle
ISBN1933517735
"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."—David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey

"What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant...
Fire to Fire
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060752475
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop...
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0887483364
Some poems from Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser:

1. Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning

Perfectly still this solstice morning,

in bone-cracking cold. Nothing moving,

or so one might think, but as I walk the road,

the wind...
Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
AuthorOsip Mandelstam
ISBN0062099426
A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century.

Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation...
Collected Poems
AuthorLynda Hull
ISBN1555974570
The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty)


If each of us
contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility
then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . .
--from "The...
Thrall
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN0547571607
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them...
Our Lady of the Ruins
AuthorTraci Brimhall
ISBN0393086437
Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world. Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers haunted by empire, God, and personal trauma.

from...
Black Aperture
AuthorMatt Rasmussen
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In Outgoing, the speaker erases his brother s answering machine message to save his family from the shame of dead you / answering...
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