Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
10 best books like Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (Marilyn Hacker): The Beautifully Worthless, The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, Great Sonnets, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, The Collected Poems, Gunslinger, The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990, The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977
| Author | Ali Liebegott |
| ISBN | 0974638846 |
3.5*
This was an audiobook I picked up on a whim not knowing what it was about.
As it turns out, The Beautifully Worthless is a work of poetic fiction that describes a road trip in letters to the protagonist's girlfriend.
Unsatisfied with her life the protagonist sets out with...
| Author | Kimiko Hahn |
| ISBN | 0393061892 |
I find it interesting that several people have remarked on how much they enjoyed reading The Narrow Road to the Interior, mentioning in particular how easily it read and flowed from entry to entry. Although I had a somewhat similar experience in reading The Narrow Road to the Interior as I enjoyed Hahn’s...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0963818368 |
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century...
| Author | Eileen Myles |
| ISBN | 0062389106 |
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...
| Author | Paul Negri |
| ISBN | 0486280527 |
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
| Author | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 0374526982 |
The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry
"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
| Author | Muriel Rukeyser |
| ISBN | 0822959240 |
Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro...
| Author | Ed Dorn |
| ISBN | 0822309327 |
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...
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0932379982 |
The Women Who Hate Me was first published as a chapbook in 1983 when Dorothy was 34; it was expanded and published in the form being reviewed here in 1991. Her short story collection Trash was first published in 1988 and an expanded version was published in 2002. She received mainstream recognition in...
| Author | Judy Grahn |
| ISBN | 0884470237 |
It hurts me to see that people aren't reading this any more. These are some of the best poems I know about tough, labor-worn working-class women: waitresses and cleaning women, motorcycle dykes and truck drivers. "She's a copperheaded waitress,/ tired and sharp-worded, she hides/ her bad brown tooth...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 1580050220 |
Some thoughts...
I enjoyed this a lot. It's more of a series of encounters and experiences rather than a plot-driven story, which I'm fine with, but it means that it's a bit more of a challenging read. The main character talks a lot about(and reads) 'On the Road' and there is a similarity of style...
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015
Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac
“Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”—The New York Times
“Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060951060 |
3.5 i love poetry, it is often soothing to me, makes me look at things in different ways. This book came in my Strand book box, and it was a poet of which I had never heard. It highlights the beauty of the natural world, some striking images are invoked. It is also about death, death due to AIDS, but also the natural...
| Author | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| ISBN | 0375710221 |
With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her own allegory,”...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393310825 |
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.
The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
| Author | Olga Broumas |
| ISBN | 0300021119 |
Olga Broumas foi a 72a poeta a ganhar Yale Series of Young Poets e a primeira nao-anglofona que escreveu em inglês como segunda lingua. Nasceu na Grécia e assim como Safo, também escreve poemas saficos.
A primeira parte é intitulada Twelve Aspects of God, ela homeageia as deusas, semi-deusas,...
| Author | Rupert Brooke |
| ISBN | 1426411111 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Alice Notley |
| ISBN | 0141002298 |
Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected...
| Author | Matthea Harvey |
| ISBN | 1934781819 |
Lamb and Mary were alike. Unbalanced. Flat-footed. High-strung. This is their story like you’ve never heard it—the tale of a loopy shepherdess and a depressive farm animal. In this version of the children's nursery rhyme, Lamb and Mary fall in love. They swoon, they are smitten. Then Mary has second...
