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10 best books like New Collected Poems (George Oppen): Our Andromeda, Play It As It Lays, Seam, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002, The Complete Poems, The Dead and the Living, Bliss, Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition, Second Childhood: Poems

Our Andromeda
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN1556594100
Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"

Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of “Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy,...
Play It As It Lays
AuthorJoan Didion
ISBN0374529949
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
Seam
AuthorTarfia Faizullah
ISBN0809333252
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi...
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN1573225851
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN0393325342
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous...
The Complete Poems
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN1556592175
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love...
The Dead and the Living
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0394715632
I saw that others were reading this review, so I pulled out this book at dawn and reread it and edited/ added some things in my review. Like this poem:

Possessed (for my parents)

I have never left.
Your bodies are before me
at all times, in the dark I see
the stars of your teeth...
Bliss
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN0141196130
Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. In these three tales, aglow with light and colour, Mansfield describes an exultant epiphany, fading...
Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811215423
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952 the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, shortly after his death. This book was then and remained, for all practical...
Second Childhood: Poems
AuthorFanny Howe
ISBN1555976824
The new poetry collection by Fanny Howe, whose "body of work seems larger, stranger, and more permanent with each new book she publishes" (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)

People want to be poets for reasons that have little to do with language.
It's the life of the poet that they want.
Even...
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