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10 best books like I : Six Nonlectures (E.E. Cummings): The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems, Bestiary: Poems, The Afterlife and Other Stories, All Around Atlantis, The Ghost Soldiers, Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, The Changing Light at Sandover, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, Lives of the Poets, Walking the Black Cat

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems
AuthorJoy Harjo
Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry.

She draws from the Native American tradition of praising...
Bestiary: Poems
AuthorDonika Kelly
ISBN1555977588
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too...
The Afterlife and Other Stories
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0449912019
To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.” All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life...
All Around Atlantis
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0671024620
Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with the dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. In 'The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, ' a messenger arrives to conduct...
The Ghost Soldiers
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0061436941
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate's trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd.

Tate's...
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393065650
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is one of Adrienne Rich's most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme," in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel," in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged...
The Changing Light at Sandover
AuthorJames Merrill
ISBN0307263215
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected...
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374525064
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole...
Lives of the Poets
AuthorMichael Schmidt
ISBN0375706046
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt...
Walking the Black Cat
AuthorCharles 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...
Poets in a Landscape
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN1853753017
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
AuthorFrancis Picabia
ISBN0262162431
Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into...
Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine
AuthorMight Magazine
ISBN0425164772
Prepare yourself for the best and brightest from Might magazine. These provocative accounts of cultural chaos tackle every tacky and/or annoying issue that has made the 20th century so ripe for the Apocalypse -- from the lost diaries of H.R. Haldeman to David Hasselhoff's world tour. Includes: "The...
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0679776249
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880014423
Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness...
The Poems of Alexander Pope
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0300000308
A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version...
The Poets Laureate Anthology
AuthorElizabeth Hun Schmidt
ISBN0393061817
This is a wonderful, huge volume of poetry anthologizing all those poets who've served as the nation's Poet Laureate or--as the position was originally appointed--as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. They range from Joseph Auslander (1937) to W. S. Merwin (2010), the outgoing laureate...
Museum of Accidents
AuthorRachel Zucker
ISBN1933517425
"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer

Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally...
The Unswept Room
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375709983
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...
Emerson's Prose and Poetry
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0393967921
I've been a fan of Emerson and the Transcendalists since high school. I picked this up at a Barnes and Noble on Memorial Day and decided it would be my on and off summer read.

I'm glad I did. Emerson has a timeless wisdom on topics that are still relevant today. My favorite essays are Self-Reliance...
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
AuthorLeonard S. Marcus
ISBN0395674077
An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture

What should children read? As the preeminent children’s literature authority, Leonard S....
Alive Together
AuthorLisel Mueller
ISBN0807121282
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the...
Appalachia: Poems
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374526249
Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music,...
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN1556521898
Giovanni offers a voice to the unique young black American experience. The books was originally published in 1973, so a few of the cultural and social references are dated, but overwhelmingly, the pieces stand the test of time. The pride and strength encouraged and depicted here are timeless, and Giovanni...
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