Miracle Fair: Selected Poems

10 best books like Miracle Fair: Selected Poems (Wisława Szymborska): A Village Life, Dancing in Odessa, The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, The Emperor of Water Clocks, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Without End: New and Selected Poems, Book of My Nights, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, Elegy

A Village Life

Author	Louise Glück
ISBN	0374283745

A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:



All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.

Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees—

The fountain...

Dancing in Odessa

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1932195122

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language....

The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

Author	Jaroslav Seifert
ISBN	0945774397

Just found this gem - had never heard of him before - at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska, where I am currently visiting. I am trying not to crack the spine as I read it but these poems are so good, I don't think I'll make it!

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Jaroslav Seifert's words are bound together with something...

The Emperor of Water Clocks

Author	Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN	0374147833

The wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

"If I am not Ulysses, I am / his dear, ruthless half-brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks. But Ulysses (or his half brother) is but one...

Selected Poems: 1931-2004

Author	Czesław Miłosz
ISBN	0060188677

Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...

Astonishments: Selected Poems

Author	Anna Kamieńska
ISBN	1557255288

Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...

Without End: New and Selected Poems

Author	Adam Zagajewski
ISBN	0374528616

I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

Without...

Book of My Nights

Author	Li-Young Lee
ISBN	1929918089

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Author	Tomas Tranströmer
ISBN	0811216721

The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, now available in this comprehensive edition.

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.

Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of...

Elegy

Author	Larry Levis
ISBN	0822956489

A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of...

Facts About the Moon

Author	Dorianne Laux
ISBN	0393329623

This is a great collection. I can't get over how well she uses image, how image opens and opens and you become swept up in it, and suddenly see that you've been privy to an entire story that now, in a way, has become part of your own life. There's much sensuality, some humor, tremendous tenderness and joy.

The...

The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

Author	Zbigniew Herbert
ISBN	0060783907

This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's...

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

Author	Diane Seuss
ISBN	1555978061

Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle
Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder
Still life with whiskey...

The Big Book of Exit Strategies

Author	Jamaal May
ISBN	1938584244

Praise for Jamaal May:

"Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel."—Publishers Weekly

Following Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection,...

Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair

Author

S. Jane Sloat

the dancing girl press chapbook series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets and artists through chapbooks, journals, book arts projects, and anthologies. Spawned by the online zine wicked alice, dgp seeks to publish work that bridges the gaps between schools and poetic...

The Poems of Octavio Paz

Author	Octavio Paz
ISBN	0811220435

In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate (Chicago Tribune), the poet-archer who goes straight to...

Certain Magical Acts

Author	Alice Notley
ISBN	0143108166

An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness....

Skin Divers

Author	Anne Michaels
ISBN	0747544530

Anne Michaels' Skin Divers is an absolutely phenomenal poetry collection, particularly so after I was a little disappointed by her novel Fugitive Pieces. Most of the stanzas here are achingly beautiful, and her writing is so intelligent and thought-provoking. Michaels' creation of imagery too...

A Pillow Book

Author

Suzanne Buffam

Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit...

Earthlight

Author	André Breton
ISBN	1931243409

Best known in the United States as the mastermind of the Surrealist movement and as the author of the dream-logic fiction Nadja, André Breton has always enjoyed in Europe the additional reputation of being a brilliant poet. Bill Zavatsky’s and Zack Rogow’s excellent translation of Breton’s...