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10 best books like Mr Cogito (Zbigniew Herbert): Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Dien Cai Dau, The Country Between Us, Collected Poems, What Work Is, In the Next Galaxy, Phantom Noise, Sand Opera, Madwoman, Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060929480
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes...
Dien Cai Dau
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0819511641
Most days, I sit in a Center for Writing, reviewing papers for college students, and clarifying the proper formatting and style required by the Modern Language Association (MLA), as relates to scholastic writing. As I notice varying writing styles, I suggest books for students to read, based on their...
The Country Between Us
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060909269
“Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called ‘political’ at the same time. This is a major new voice.” — Margaret Atwood

The Country Between Us opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché...
Collected Poems
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0880011742
ON PRAYER

You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.
All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge
And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,
Above landscapes the color of ripe gold
Transformed by a magic stopping of the sun.
That bridge leads to the shore of...
What Work Is
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679740589
Winner of the National Book Award in 1991
 
“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous...
In the Next Galaxy
AuthorRuth Stone
ISBN1556592078
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”—Galway Kinnell on...
Phantom Noise
AuthorBrian Turner
ISBN1882295803
Brian Turner was a rifle team leader in Iraq, and he draws on his own experience as well as the literary and political history of Iraq in this excellent collection of his poetry.

His most famous poems from this collection, "Al-A'imma Bridge" and "The Mutanabbi Street Bombing" place specific...
Sand Opera
AuthorPhilip Metres
ISBN1938584090
"Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war."—Mark Nowak

Sand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American and out of the parallel sense of seeing Arabs named and silenced since 9/11. Polyvocal poems,...
Madwoman
AuthorShara McCallum
ISBN1938584287
"These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded—a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence add to the gathering...
Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
AuthorLynda Van Devanter
ISBN0446392510
Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project....
Dark Blonde: Poems
AuthorBelle Waring
ISBN1889330086
Waring has worked as a neo-natal intensive care nurse and as Writer-in-Residence at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. Her first collection of poetry, Refuge, won the Associated Writing Program's Award for Poetry in 1989, the Washington Prize in 1991, and was cited by Publishers...
Clamor: Poems
AuthorElyse Fenton
ISBN1880834898
This collection of poetry was an impressive surprise. I purchased it to support the author, whom I haven't met but who is married to a college classmate of my son's. I am reviewing it, however, because it is remarkable writing and deserves its recent awarding of the prestigious Dylan Thomas prize.

The...
Battle Dress: Poems
AuthorKaren Skolfield
ISBN1324003014
In a poetic voice at once accessible and otherworldly, gutsy and insightful, U.S. Army veteran Karen Skolfield offers a rare glimpse of a female soldier’s training and mental conditioning. Through the narratives of a young soldier, her older counterpart, and her fellow soldiers, Skolfield searches...
Blue-Tail Fly
AuthorVievee Francis
ISBN0814333230
The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn." The blue-tail fly is a supposedly insignificant creature that bites the horse that bucks and kills the master. In this collection, poet Vievee Francis gives voice to "outsiders"-from soldiers and common...
A Field Guide to the Heavens
AuthorFrank X. Gaspar
ISBN0299165205
Frank X. Gaspar’s collection of poems is haunted by the presence of mystics and visionaries: Mohammed, Buddha, St. Paul, Augustine, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Blake, Milton, Rilke. A Field Guide to the Heavens is punctuated with designs of science, the wondering and rapt observations of...
From Room to Room
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN0914086243
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The Doll
AuthorBolesław Prus
ISBN1858660653
Warsaw under Russian rule in the late 1870s is the setting for Prus’s grand panorama of social conflict, political tension, and personal suffering. The middle-aged hero, Wokulski, successful in business, is being destroyed by his obsessive love for a frigid society doll, Izabela. Embattled aristocrats,...
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