Embryoyo: New Poems
10 best books like Embryoyo: New Poems (Dean Young): The Lice, Dancing in Odessa, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, Field Guide, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World, Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 0689101902 |
Merwin was born 30 September 1927, and died in March 2019. I first encountered his poetry in 2010, after seeing him in a documentary about the life of the Buddha. His even-tempered, self-deprecating way of puncturing the Deadly Seriousness of the other talking heads in the film was memorable; his poetic...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1932195122 |
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....
| Author | Jorie Graham |
| ISBN | 0880014768 |
The Dream of the Unified Field is a selection of Jorie Graham's poems from five collections, including:
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
,
Erosion
,
The End of Beauty
,
Region of Unlikeness
, and
Materialism
...
From
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
...
The slow overture of...
| Author | Matthea Harvey |
| ISBN | 1882295269 |
I came to "Pity..." after having read "Sad Little Breathing Machine," so my thoughts on the collection are a bit in reverse. Dean Young's string-of-similes blurb, "this book astonishes me the way I am astonished by jeweled clockworks, siege machinery, the musculature of the shark and hummingbird,"...
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
| Author | Dominic Luxford |
| ISBN | 1932416811 |
The first McSweeney's foray into contemporary poetry brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains, and making the publisher wonder why it waited so long to try this. How it works: Ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation....
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0300076339 |
The Winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, presents sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present. Running through the...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 0887484670 |
from Indeed I Was Pleased with the World by Mary Ruefle:
Grief
First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
| Author | Joshua Marie Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0877459819 |
Drawing from the paintings of Susan Rothenberg, Gwyneth Scally, and Eric Fischl as well as from the photography of Allison Maletz, Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk is a book-length poem written in small fragments. Comprised of seven sections, the poem...
| Author | Mark Leidner |
| ISBN | 0983520305 |
Poetry. Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood,...
| Author | Ashley Capps |
| ISBN | 1931968373 |
In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe...
| Author | James Tate |
| ISBN | 0060750022 |
In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day....
| Author | Bob Hicok |
| ISBN | 0822959534 |
I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close the door of summer behind them, their heads floating on the golden tips, on waves that flock and break like starlings changing their minds in the middle of changing their minds, I saw their hips lie down inside those birds, inside the day of shy...
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555972683 |
Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets
In his second collection of poems, Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle through line after line confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music, sons and...
| Author | Chelsey Minnis |
| ISBN | 1933517417 |
A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous.
If you open your mouth to start to...
Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
| Author | Maurice Manning |
| ISBN | 0300089988 |
This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning’s Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man child in the rural South. Presenting a cast of allegorical and symbolic, yet very real, characters,...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811203360 |
If possible I would recommend listening to Oppen read this himself
There is something so fragile and weary in his reading that punches me in the heart especially hard when there is a sort of immediate self undermining in his poetry, the first instance of this (and me having my heart broken) is the forth...
| Author | Jenny Zhang |
| ISBN | 0985118202 |
"Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that...
