Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems

Author	Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN	0819567396

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished...

Author	Ai
ISBN	0393320189

Ai's collection is startling, difficult, and important. Selected from the five books preceding this collection - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - these poems tackle dangerous parts of the human spirit in ways that leave readers gasping for air. Her metaphors and similes are often spiritual,...

Author	Federico García Lorca
ISBN	1932511407

“Poema del cante jondo and Romancero Gitano, the books of poems that Lorca wrote first, out of his excited response to gypsy music, poetry, and dance all around him in Granada, contain some of his most powerful and trenchant lyrical work, original, inimitable, daring, and a clear expression...

Author	Edward Hirsch
ISBN	0156032678

Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...

Author	Frank Bidart
ISBN	0374269734

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,...

Author	Francis Ponge
ISBN	0916390586

POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....

Author	Philip Levine
ISBN	0679740562

In ‘New and Selected Poems’, readers will find a real master craftsman at work. His language is conservative and seems simple at first, but when the poem blossoms we are all the more surprised and excited because of it. This book is a gem to read and contains a story, making it as hard to put down as your...

Author	Lucie Brock-Broido
ISBN	0394758528

"Brock-Broido's talismanic words open into a magical territory of 'Domestic Mysticism' . . . A violently skewed portrait of the female poet and her Muse, a hyped-up version of Stevens and his interior paramour, locked in a soliloquy 'in which being there together is enough' . . . Something in Brock-Broido...

Author	Randall Jarrell
ISBN	0374513058

Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...

Author	Robert Hass
ISBN	0300076339

The Winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, presents sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present. Running through the...

Author	Traci Brimhall
ISBN	0809329972

Traveling to the most intimate extremes of the human heart

 

Fraught with madness, brutality, and ecstasy, Traci Brimhall’s Rookery delves into the darkest and most remote corners of the human experience. From the graveyards and battlefields of the Civil War to the ancient forests...

Author	Robert Bly
ISBN	0807063932

Part poetry anthology, part critical treatise, Leaping Poetry is a major statement by one of American's most distinguished poets. Bly's thesis is that great works of art contain leaps within themselves: 'A poet who is leaping makes a jump from an object soaked in unconscious substance to an object...

Author	David Lehman
ISBN	0743243501

A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry...

Author	Marjorie Agosín
ISBN	1877727385

This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility...

Author

Sara Uribe

"Esta es la búsqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en México.

(...)

Este es un ensayo y una obra y una novela y un poemario y una investigación, es escritura y reescritura, es un brutalmente honesto activismo literario que invita a reflexionar...

Author

George Santayana

This book is foul. Not the text especially but its self. It literally makes me sneeze it's so grotty and old. I read some article in the Berkeley Philosophy Journal Qui Parle a while back which sort of pegged George Santanyana as a politically indifferent Bourgeois Classicist, and maybe he is. I really...

Author	Adrienne Rich
ISBN	0393323773

In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues...

Author	Jorie Graham
ISBN	0691014051

From Erosion
SAN SEPOLCRO




Jorie Graham
?
. . . . How clean
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the...

Author

Alejandra Pizarnik

Prologado por Octavio Paz, esta obra supuso el reconocimiento definitivo de la autora por parte de la crítica. Los poemas son mayoritariamente cortos, todos en verso libre, plagados de contradicciones y sugerencias a veces increíbles por su lucidez. La soledad de la conciencia, del ser humano,...

Author	Vicente Huidobro
ISBN	8437602793

"Para mí, la poesía que más me interesa comienza en mí generación y para hablar claro, le diré que empieza en mí." - Vicente Huidobro, 28/Mayo/1939

En la edición con que cuento de Altazor, viene en las notas introductorias un fragmento de una entrevista a Huidobro para La Nación, y...

Author	Martín Espada
ISBN	0393062562

The Republic of Poetry


The Republic of Poetry
by Martín Espada
Hardcover 96 pages
W.W. Norton, October, 2006


One cannot read the title to Martín Espada’s new book, The Republic of Poetry without recalling Plato’s banning of poets from his republic due...

Author	Weldon Kees
ISBN	0803258283

During his forty-first year, Weldon Kees’ depression deepened. He had institutionalized Ann, his wife of sixteen years, when a mammoth drinking binge (plus her compulsive TV viewing of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings) precipitated a psychotic episode; her failure to stay in treatment afterward...