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Poems, 1965-1975

10 best books like Poems, 1965-1975 (Seamus Heaney): The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition, The Collected Poems, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, On Poetry And Poets, Collected Poems, Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, New Selected Poems, Poems 1968-1998

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems
AuthorJoy Harjo
Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry.

She draws from the Native American tradition of praising...
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition
AuthorTony Barnstone
ISBN0385721986
Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators.

Here...
The Collected Poems
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060514485
New and Collected Poems: 1931—2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into...
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374520259
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
Collected Poems
AuthorPatrick Kavanagh
ISBN0393006948
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.

Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN1598530178
Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody...
New Selected Poems
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679740562
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...
Poems 1968-1998
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528446
"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.

Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts...
The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
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...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374514003
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised...
Selected Poems and Three Plays
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0020715609
My favorite poems are as follows:

The Lake of Innisfree
When you are Old
The Second Coming
On Woman
The People

However, my favorite lines came for "The Death of Cuchulain" (1939)

When they told me that I could have my own way I wrote certain guiding principles...and...
Selected Poems
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0679733019
I have never been the one to rate the books objectively. I don't understand how objectivity works when it comes to rating poems.

So, the other day I got this book from a Used Book Store ( for 2 dollars . I dug Strand out from a pile of other books which he was buried under ).
Found a couple of my favorite...
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Revised Edition)
AuthorWeldon Kees
ISBN0803258283

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...
In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
AuthorFrank Bidart
ISBN0374522715
I fear too many poets these days are considered "good" merely because they're different, their aesthetic hard, their poetry disarming. Bidart is all of these things, but deserving of our highest praises because his poetry transcends gimmicks to become a new verse, one that is beautiful and painful....
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393308227
I think I'm going to set Boland aside and read something else for a while. While I thought her poem "The Journey" (not included in this collection) might qualify as an immortal masterwork, I generally prefer the compression and tightly-wound intensity of other feminist poets such as Plath.

"Outside...
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0151421692
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes...
Selected Verse
AuthorFederico García Lorca
ISBN0374528551
Selected verse from the poet who "expanded the scope of lyric poetry" (Rafael Campo, The Washington Post).

The work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modernist poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. The revised Selected Verse, which...
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