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10 best books like Imaginations (William Carlos Williams): The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod, The Pisan Cantos, Collected Works, Collected Poems of George Oppen, The Collected Books, Complete Short Poetry, The Sonnets, The Maximus Poems, My Life

The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
AuthorMina Loy
ISBN0374525072
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the Times Literary Supplement Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists....
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811213994
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London...
The Pisan Cantos
AuthorEzra Pound
Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America on Radio Rome. Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the elements, Pound suffered a nervous...
Collected Works
AuthorLorine Niedecker
ISBN0520224337
"The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one...
Collected Poems of George Oppen
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811206157
First published in 1975, and available now as a New Directions Paperbook, George Oppen's Collected Poems brings together the work of one of our foremost contemporary poets, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize. A member of the Objectivist school that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William...
The Collected Books
AuthorJack Spicer
The Collected Books includes
After Lorca , Admonitions , A Book of Music , Billy the Kid , Fifteen False Propositions About God , Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander , A Red Wheelbarrow , Lament for the Makers , Heads of the Town up to the Aether , The Holy Grail ,...
Complete Short Poetry
AuthorLouis Zukofsky
ISBN0801856566
The American poet Louis Zukofsky received little public attention during his lifetime, though he was regarded by his literary contemporaries as one of the finest writers in the United States. Now in paperback, "Complete Short Poetry" gathers all of Zukofsky's poetry outside his 800-page magnum...
The Sonnets
AuthorTed Berrigan
ISBN0140589279
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...
The Maximus Poems
AuthorCharles Olson
ISBN0520055950
Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me." This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's...
My Life
AuthorLyn Hejinian
ISBN1931243336
Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman’s fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first publication by Sun & Moon Press (the edition reprinted here)...
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
AuthorRobert Creeley
ISBN0520241584
Robert Creely, Wilmington, N.C., June 29, 1981: There is a sense of increment, of accumulation, in these poems that is very dear to me. Like it or not, it outwits whatever I then thought to say and gains thereby whatever I was in saying it. Thankfully, I was never what I thought I was, certainly never enough. Otherwise,...
The Opening of the Field: Poetry
AuthorRobert Duncan
ISBN0811204804
Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) said: "I make poetry as other men make war or make love or make states or revolutions: to exercise my faculties at large." The Opening of the Field, his first major collection, was originally brought out in 1960; in it, Duncan introduced his "Structures...
Gunslinger
AuthorEd Dorn
ISBN0822309327
Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse...
Radi Os
AuthorRonald Johnson
ISBN0974690244
Poetry. First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's RADI OS revises the first four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text. As the author explains, "To etch is 'to cut away, ' and each page, as in Blake's concept of a book, is...
The Midnight
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0811215385
In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find—swirling around the poet's mother—ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers,...
Complete Poems
AuthorBasil Bunting
ISBN0811215636
A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of...
Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
AuthorAlice Notley
ISBN0819567728
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel....
Girls on the Run
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0374526974
A book-length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious.
Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened...
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