Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985

10 best books like Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Ted Kooser): Warhorses, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Collected Poems, After, Walking the Black Cat, Questions About Angels, What Is Amazing, New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994, Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Warhorses

Author	Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN	0374286434

This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships,...

Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth

Author

Elizabeth Roberts

In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...

Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

Author	Naomi Shihab Nye
ISBN	0933377290

These poems are really beautiful.. here is one for you.

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all...

Collected Poems

Author	Jane Kenyon
ISBN	1555974287

Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...

After

Author	Jane Hirshfield
ISBN	0060779195

My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...

Walking the Black Cat

Author

Charles Simic

Philosophy is for the young. Poetry is for the aged.


I said that.

4 1/2



Well, for anyone who didn't catch the Dylan references (including the three words above) ... Not so far-fetched now, okay? And who was being complimented most? Maybe it was Charles, ...




Charles...

Questions About Angels

Author	Billy Collins
ISBN	0822942119

Billy Collins can pack the house. Funny and laid-back, his clear, often brief poems are easy to understand and enjoy -- which is why his readings are sometimes standing-room-only affairs. Collins may be a college professor and NEA-grant recipient, but he's not above using a disinfectant ad as an epigraph....

What Is Amazing

Author	Heather Christle
ISBN	0819572772

Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the...

New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994

Author

Stephen Dunn

I like to immerse myself in an artist's work. It's always best to read three or four books by the same author at the same time. This way, one becomes comfortable with a particular vision or voice. Reading all of Charles Dickens or all of Jane Austen is thrilling because their worlds become yours, and for...

Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Author	Carl Sandburg
ISBN	0156391252

Can four dollars buy you happiness?

Yes. Yes, it can.

Four dollars bought me this book, and this book brought me happiness. So, $4.00=Happiness.

And, in case you think I'm a cheap date, I've a list of references that will tell you otherwise.

But, I can't speak of dating...

Words for Empty and Words for Full

Author

Bob Hicok

“As always with a Bob Hicok book, fascinating and a book you sort of can’t help but pick up and suddenly, two hours later, find yourself having read straight through. I can think of just about no contemporary poets who publish such consistently great work.” —Corduroy Books “Bob Hicok's poetry...

You Must Revise Your Life

Author	William Stafford
ISBN	0472063715

If you want to better understand how William Stafford approaches writing, this book may help with that. Through a combination of essays, poetry and interviews, Stafford presents what I can only describe as a kind of philosophy of writing, including his approach to helping others find their own voice....

The Collected Poems

Author	Stanley Kunitz
ISBN	0393322947

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....

Twelve Moons

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0316650005

In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. these vibrant, magical poems pulse with...

Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998

Author	Linda Pastan
ISBN	0393046311

This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'" Since then, Pastan...

Without: Poems

Author	Donald Hall
ISBN	0395957656

You might expect the fact of dying--the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet--to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors...

The Niagara River

Author	Kay Ryan
ISBN	0802142222

In the citation accompanying Kay's recent award of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize, Christine Wiman wrote: "Kay Ryan can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems-which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling-could never be mistaken for anyone else's....

Braided Creek

Author	Jim Harrison
ISBN	1556591888

After Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser had exchanged letters and poems for years, Kooser was diagnosed with cancer. "Ted's poetry became overwhelmingly vivid," Harrison recalls. "Then we decided to correspond in short poems, because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other."

"Braided...