BooksList.Best
Search

Pity the Beautiful: Poems

10 best books like Pity the Beautiful: Poems (Dana Gioia): Manhattan Affair, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, Eliot, Collected Poems, 1943-2004, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Collected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens

Manhattan Affair
AuthorJack Sussek
ISBN0615580076
from KIRKUS REVIEWS:


A smart, thrilling medley of twisted relationships, unrequited love and closely guarded secrets.

In late ’90s Manhattan, Jared “Jed” Chase confesses to his lawyer the snaky, illicit route that landed him in trouble and possibly in jail. Jed led...
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0231150849
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning...
Eliot
AuthorMichael Wood Jr.
ISBN1470099845
What defines justified transgressions? No two people will agree on what is acceptable, moral, right, wrong, deserving, heroic, or criminal in Eliot and that is what pushes us to truly look inside our own souls. Do you see the actions of the vigilante killer set on revenge, the drug dealer just trying...
Collected Poems, 1943-2004
AuthorRichard Wilbur
ISBN0156030799
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters. Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most referenced trove of this beloved poet's best...
Astonishments: Selected Poems
AuthorAnna Kamieńska
ISBN1557255288
Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
Collected Poems
AuthorDonald Justice
This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

Up...
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1846142482
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.

'Love bade me welcome . . .'

'Teach me my God and King . . .'


George...
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
AuthorPaul Mariani
ISBN1451624379
A perceptive, enlightening biography of one the most important American poets of the twentieth century—Wallace Stevens—as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience.

Wallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression...
Every Riven Thing: Poems
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374150362
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets

Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions...
Triumph of Achilles
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880010827
From the opening line ("It is not the moon, I tell you") Gluck claims absolute control of subject, craft, and perception. We see what we are instructed to see; we understand what Gluck insists we understand. Gluck's sensitivity to emotional nuance is extreme: "I ask you, how much beauty/ can a person...
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
AuthorW.H. Auden
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom...
Leavings
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1582435340
No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.

Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters,...
The Big, Fun, Sexy Sex Book
AuthorLisa Rinna
ISBN1451661231
From the New York Times bestselling authors of She Comes First and Rinnavation comes a fun and effective guide to improving your marriage by rejuvenating your sex life.

JUST SAY O!

• Have flannel pj’ s replaced your silky negligees?

• Are you more likely to nod off cuddling...
Uncorked: My Journey Through the Crazy World of Wine
AuthorMarco Pasanella
ISBN0307719847
Marco Pasanella's behind-the-scenes memoir through the world of wine will captivate wine lovers with its story of one man who decided, at age 43, to change his life by opening a wine shop.

As Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant explored the front and back of the house at restaurants, Uncorked...
Money
AuthorA.J. Mahler
ISBN0988262800
Betty Thursten's fiancé is murdered while she is outside the door trying to get in to save him. The only person with information about who might have killed José is Betty's former lover, Tom Howell Jr., who now wants to talk. Betty must decide if working for her old flame to get her revenge is worth the...
Olives
AuthorA.E. Stallings
ISBN0810152266
A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her generation. In addition to a lively dialogue with both the contemporary and ancient culture of her adopted homeland, Greece, this new collection features poems that, in her inimitable voice, address the joys and anxieties...
The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811213544
I wanted to write a review that did justice to this collection. I wanted to talk about doubt and the incarnation. I thought it would be clever if I included a few antidotes that snidely referenced conversations I’ve had about those topics with some of the people who will skim-read this. Then I realized...
Travel Unscripted
AuthorMark Murphy
ISBN0983943222
WARNING: Are you easily offended by the “F” word? Do you find it hard to read a collection of stories written by someone who might have some off color humor, tells it like it is, and genuinely wants you to feel like you are there with him rather than experiences that are sugarcoated? Then Travel Unscripted...
Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution
AuthorLisa Bodell
ISBN1937134024
In the ever-changing world of business, we’ve arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has made us complacent and unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we’ve forgotten how to think. And the very structures put in place to help...
Godspeed
AuthorFebruary Grace
ISBN1620151499
"What is a heart if not the ultimate clockwork?"

Abigail’s young life was saved by the kindness of strangers: Schuyler Algernon, the man who found her collapsed on cold city streets, and Quinn Godspeed, the doctor who risked everything by breaking the law to keep her fragile heart beating....
Letters to a Friend
AuthorDiana Athill
ISBN0393062953
Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. For thirty years, Athill corresponded...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024