Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
10 best books like Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (Lucille Clifton): The Book of Delights, Deaf Republic: Poems, Diving Into the Wreck, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Yuasa), Loose Woman, The Wild Iris, Mother Love, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002, Blood, Tin, Straw
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393311635 |
With language as clinically apocalyptic and claustrophobically dystopic as anything to be found in the postmodern nightmares of Ballard and DeLillo, Diving Into the Wreck rages against the heteronormative status quo as Rich points her poetic finger at men and women, both of whom bear the burden of...
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning....
| Author | Matsuo Bashō |
| ISBN | 0140441859 |
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho...
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679755276 |
Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title:
I sleep with the cat
when no one will have me.
When I can't give it away
for love or money-
I telephone...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0880013346 |
I had a Creative Writing teacher who asked me once if I would like anyone other than myself to read my poetry. When I answered, “Yes,” she advised me to make the suffering in my poems more universal and less personal.
Poetry is obviously personal, but she explained to me that, if I had a husband...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0393314448 |
Just pulled this collection off my shelves and dove into it, and by the third poem or so wondered what took me so long to find it and actually read it.
The poems in this volume are tough but delicate. Dove's use of imagery and voice are stunning; I'm drawn into the ways in which Dove weaves her personal...
| Author | Joy Harjo |
| ISBN | 0393325342 |
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375707352 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
| Author | W.G. Sebald |
| ISBN | 0141018380 |
Unrecounted is a book of poems and images from one of the most admired European writers, W.G. Sebald, and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp.
For a number of years until Sebald's death in 2001, the two exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly...
| Author | Rikki Ducornet |
| ISBN | 1564780848 |
Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form...
My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679418210 |
This is the book and the poet responsible for me becoming totally hooked on poetry. I think it had a lot to do with the familiarity of the subject of the poems, growing up in working class Latino neighborhoods, the culture and just surviving the ever present cruelty of childhood.
Beautiful free...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216128 |
Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense writing gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls...
