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From the New World: Poems 1976-2012

10 best books like From the New World: Poems 1976-2012 (Jorie Graham): Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, Poems 1962-2012, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose, Digest, Collected Poems, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Selected Poems, Elegy, 3 Sections

Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems
AuthorPatrick Phillips
ISBN0385353758
The poet Patrick Phillips brings us a stunning third collection that is at its core a son’s lament for his father. This book of elegies takes us from the luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one...
Poems 1962-2012
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0374126089
Even when collected, Louise Glück’s poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like...
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN0062389106
A collection of thrilling new and beloved past work from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, a cult icon and modern favorite

Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which Myles not only lets her readers...
On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
AuthorTheodore Roethke
"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."

Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities,...
Digest
AuthorGregory Pardlo
ISBN1935536508
From Epicurus to Sam Cook, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson,...
Collected Poems
AuthorJack Gilbert
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
 
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American...
The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374523266
The heart of this volume is made up of long journal-like dated entries in free verse. Deliciously absorbing and meditative, they concern themselves with landscapes and the natural world, with ideas, memory, and autobiography. I think of poetry as a kind of wisdom. I get the idea Wright dedicates his...
Selected Poems
AuthorMary Ruefle
"Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely...
Elegy
AuthorMary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor...
3 Sections
AuthorVijay Seshadri
The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, “one of the most respected poets working in America today” (Time Out New York)

First I had three
apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last.
The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all.
Then the doorbell...
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
AuthorDavid Ferry
ISBN0226244881
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.

To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take...
New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0547928289
“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles Times


For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic...
Stay, Illusion: Poems
AuthorLucie Brock-Broido
ISBN0307962024
National Book Award Finalist

Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her “Abandonarium,”...
40 Sonnets
AuthorDon Paterson
ISBN0571310893
This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has been visible in his work since his...
Deep Lane: Poems
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0393353222
Mark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that—as Philip Levine says—“looks away from nothing.” In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than...
Four Reincarnations: Poems
AuthorMax Ritvo
ISBN1571314903
Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body.

The poems of Four Reincarnations are...
Collected Poems: 1950–2012
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393285111
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.


This collected...
Heaven
AuthorRowan Ricardo Phillips
ISBN0374168520
Long-listed for the National Book Award in poetry

A spectacularly vibrant and continually surprising collection from one of the poetry world's rising young stars

"Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in Heaven, the piercing...
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
AuthorAmiri Baraka
A New York Times Editors' Choice

Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka—"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)—was one of the preeminent literary...
Oracle: Poems
AuthorCate Marvin
ISBN0393077985
The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York's Staten Island, where they move through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts—of a dead lover, of a friend lost to suicide, of a dog with glistening eyes. Marvin's haunting, passionate poems explore themes of loss,...
The Book of Goodbyes
AuthorJillian Weise
ISBN1938160142

Winner of the 2013 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
A Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2013"
A NPR "Best Book of 2013"
A Coldfront Magazine "Top 40 Poetry Book" for 2013

“These fierce, hip, heartbreaking love poems call out to a lover who can’t be lived with or without. They’re...
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN1608190331
Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to it: for love and loss. The Art of Losing will be the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced...
Rocket Fantastic: Poems
AuthorGabrielle Calvocoressi
ISBN0892554851
Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic transfigures the landscape and language of gender and the body. Its poems are populated by figures both familial and fabular: a prodigal brother and a relentless father; the Hermit, Dowager, and Major General; and, perhaps most strikingly, the Bandleader,...
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