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Complete Poems, 1913-1962

10 best books like Complete Poems, 1913-1962 (E.E. Cummings): The Waste Land and Other Writings, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, The Beforelife, Selected Poems, The Mentor Book of Major American Poets, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, The Complete Poems, Hotel Insomnia, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
AuthorPerry Miller
ISBN0674613066
The biographical summary of Miller is interesting. A man who got his PhD in an era where 1 year of undergrad work, followed by three years of grad work after a hiatus traveling the world, could quite directly land tenure at Harvard. One thinks of Miller as a tweedy Harvard professor in the "consensus" era...
The Beforelife
AuthorFranz Wright
ISBN0375709436
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery....
Selected Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156003961
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate...
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0451627911
Many of the poets are great, and all have at least one or two great poems as well as at least a couple more worth reading, but much of this anthology was a slog for me.

I love Dickinson, and Whitman, and Pound, Stevens, Cummings, and Auden. I got my first taste of a selection of several of the poets,...
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811201910
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...
Hotel Insomnia
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0156421828
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of...
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
AuthorKenneth Koch
ISBN0684824388
From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.

Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those...
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN0811201570
This collection of essays, edited by Pound's friend and fellow poet T.S. Eliot, contains essays from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations(1920), How to Read(1931), Make it New(1934), and Polite Essays(1937). The thirty-three essays contained in this collection...
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571087353
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested...
The Best American Poetry 2008
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0743299744
The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular...
The Best American Poetry 2011
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN1439181497
I thought for a long time about whether I wanted to review this or if I had the capacity to do so. I feel like there are hordes of poetry fans and critical readers who are waiting in the wings to tell me I’m an idiot and that I don’t understand poetry. Anthologies are always hit and miss for people--it’s...
The Best American Poetry 2010
AuthorAmy Gerstler
ISBN1439181454

AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States...
New and Collected Poems
AuthorRichard Wilbur
ISBN0156654911
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...
Pathmarks
AuthorMartin Heidegger
This is the first time that this seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. The volume includes new or first-time translations of seven essays and thoroughly revised, updated...
Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
AuthorNobuyoshi Araki
ISBN3836536722
Tokyo "entertainment centers" in the early 1980s photographed by Araki
 It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto whose waitresses famously wore no panties under their miniskirts and see-through pantyhose. As word began to spread, similar establishments popped up across...
Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva
AuthorSigmund Freud
Here together in one edition is the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of psychoanalysis in Freud's oeuvre, which discusses the role of dream and delusion in Jensen's work. This book, previously reprinted by Sun & Moon Press, has been...
Seminario sulla gioventù
AuthorAldo Busi
ISBN8804571128
Conoscevo Aldo Busi come opinionista in tv, e ad essere onesti non nutrivo una grande stima nei suoi confronti. Poi ho aperto il Seminario, e ho capito tante cose. Busi avrà anche idee bizzarre sulla vita, non lo metto in dubbio, ma come scrittore è davvero bravo; il suo utilizzo della lingua, così...
Le irregolari: Buenos Aires Horror Tour
AuthorMassimo Carlotto
ISBN8876413820
Un romanzo basato su fatti e personaggi assolutamente veri che racconta per la prima volta in Italia, in modo completo, documentato e rigoroso, la storia della guerra sporca delle dittatura argentina. La metodologia della 'desaparicion', i campi di concentramento clandestini, i bambini trattati...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / The Member of the Wedding
AuthorCarson McCullers
ISBN0547577540
“Like all writers of original genius, Miss McCullers convinces us that we have missed something which was plainly to be seen in the real world . . . She is a master of peculiar perception and an incomparable storyteller.” —V. S. Pritchett

Upon publication of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,...
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556594852
A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry...
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