Once in the West: Poems
10 best books like Once in the West: Poems (Christian Wiman): Metaphysical Dog, The Beauty: Poems, Book of Hours: Poems, Faithful and Virtuous Night, The Undressing: Poems, White Egrets, Incarnadine: Poems, Collected Poems, 1943-2004, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
| Author | Frank Bidart |
| ISBN | 0374173613 |
In “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not.” Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0385351070 |
| Author | Kevin Young |
| ISBN | 0307272249 |
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0374152012 |
A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's...
| Author | Li-Young Lee |
| Author | Derek Walcott |
| ISBN | 0374289298 |
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career--the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the...
| Author | Mary Szybist |
| ISBN | 1555976352 |
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
-from “The Troubadours etc.”
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly...
| Author | Richard Wilbur |
| ISBN | 0156030799 |
| Author | Anna Kamieńska |
| ISBN | 1557255288 |
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068993 |
| Author | Dana Gioia |
| ISBN | 1555976131 |
O Lord of indirection and ellipses,
ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.
Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call.
--from “Prophecy”
Pity the Beautiful is...
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374119023 |
This is an old man’s poetry,
written by someone who’s spent his life
Looking for one truth.
Sorry, pal, there isn’t one.
—from “Ancient of Days”
Charles...
| Author | Melissa Range |
| ISBN | 0807094447 |
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith
The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions...
| Author | David Ferry |
| ISBN | 0226244881 |
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take...
| Author | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| ISBN | 0307962024 |
Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her “Abandonarium,”...
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582435340 |
Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters,...
| Author | Mark Wunderlich |
| ISBN | 1555976662 |
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week
With your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulled
the woolen shawl around me while I slept.
That...
| Author | Edward Hirsch |
| Author | Sjohnna McCray |
| ISBN | 1555977375 |
plainly. Because I always stutter
politely. Because there's always the chatter
before the kiss.
--from "In Need of Subtitles"
In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother...
| Author | Derrick Austin |
| ISBN | 1942683049 |
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0060776544 |