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10 best books like My Noiseless Entourage (Charles Simic): Gulf Music: Poems, Warhorses, The Beforelife, Star Dust, After, The Seven Ages, Moy Sand and Gravel, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The Painted Bed: Poems, School of the Arts

Gulf Music: Poems
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374167494
Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.
Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.

Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation

And invention, is this the image of the promised...
Warhorses
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0374286434
This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships,...
The Beforelife
AuthorFranz Wright
ISBN0375709436
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery....
Star Dust
AuthorFrank Bidart
ISBN0374269734
In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust, finally complete.

Throughout his work,...
After
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060779195
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
The Seven Ages
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0060933496
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999.
The fierce, austerely beautiful, and visionary voice that has become Glück's
trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness.
Many of the poems in this collection bear the familiar features...
Moy Sand and Gravel
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528845
Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening,...
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0691013357
"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence,...
The Painted Bed: Poems
AuthorDonald Hall
ISBN0618340750
Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in THE PAINTED BED, the beloved might be a person or something else - life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall's new poems...
School of the Arts
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060752467
With School of the Arts, Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that...
Versed
AuthorRae Armantrout
ISBN0819568791
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)

Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded...
Another Time
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571234372
Another Time Un altro tempo è la prima raccolta che Auden pubblica nel 1940, un anno dopo il suo trasferimento negli Stati Uniti là dove finalmente riesce a sentirsi libero dalla cupezza di un Europa in piena crisi e che si apprestava ad una nuova guerra.
Scriverà in una lettera ad un amico: Adoro...
Tutte le poesie
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN8804340487
Per Montale la realtà è segnata da una insanabile frattura fra l'individuo e il mondo, che provoca un senso di frustrazione e di estraneità, un malessere esistenziale. Rispetto a questa visione, la poesia si pone per Montale come espressione profonda e personale della propria ricerca di dignità...
Man and Camel
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0307262960
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who recounts the fetching mystery...
Le ceneri di Gramsci
AuthorPier Paolo Pasolini
Il volume raccoglie tutte le poesie di Pier Paolo Pasolini già pubblicate, su riviste o sotto forma di plaquette, tra il 1951 e il 1956 ed è diviso in undici brevi poemi. Il titolo si estende, da un poemetto immaginato davanti alla tomba di Gramsci nel Cimitero degli Inglesi a Roma, a tutto il libro, dal...
The Lichtenberg Figures
AuthorBen Lerner
ISBN1556592116
The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies...
Where Shall I Wander
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0060765291
A masterful collection from “the grand old man of American poetry” (New York Times)

You meant more than life to me. I lived through

you not knowing, not knowing I was living.

I learned that you called for me. I came to where

you were living, up a stair. There was no...
The Moon Before Morning
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556594534
“Merwin’s masterfully refined, meditative poems stem from his dwelling mindfully in one beloved place and handling words as though they are seeds, flowers, stones, and water… Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance, and...
Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair
AuthorS. 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...
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