Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
10 best books like Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (Gary Snyder): Pleasure Dome, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Sun under Wood, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, Desire: Poems, The Branch Will Not Break, Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, Selected Poems
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0819567396 |
| Author | Lew Welch |
| ISBN | 0912516038 |
Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
is looking for a flashlight
when all you need the flashlight for
is to find your flashlight
..the following, a last stanza from poem: ["He Finally Reaches The City"]
Is this, then, the
Mystical...
| Author | Ai |
| ISBN | 0393320189 |
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0880015578 |
| Author | Yehuda Amichai |
| ISBN | 0520205383 |
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 0811201805 |
| Author | Frank Bidart |
| ISBN | 0374525994 |
I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first...
| Author | James Wright |
| ISBN | 0819510181 |
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” When I first heard this Emily Dickinson quote, I knew exactly what she meant. After all, I had read The Branch Will Not Break when I was eighteen.
It was 1967. I was already writing verse--very bad verse--and...
| Author | Richard Hugo |
| ISBN | 0393307840 |
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0394702956 |
The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years in Germany and Switzerland...
| Author | Amiri Baraka |
| ISBN | 1568860145 |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0912946474 |
| 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...
| Author | C.D. Wright |
| ISBN | 1556592167 |
Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
| Author | Hanshan |
| ISBN | 1556591403 |
This definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and...
| Author | Burton Watson |
| ISBN | 0231034504 |
| Author | Stephen Dunn |
| ISBN | 0393322327 |
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's...
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 1555972845 |
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 0880014032 |
banality of thoughts made
- not less - meaningless by
putting them into a pseudo-poetical form that sometimes breaks with a pattern just to
make a point(less) statement on
life at its most boring in the most simplistic
circumstances - och allt det...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811214583 |
August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.
AWARE
When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 1556591888 |
"Braided...
| Author | Robert Creeley |
| ISBN | 0520069366 |
To write a review
Using
The clipped,
Broken
What use is such unfinished verse, what does matter with coffee breath, a taillight out and a strange dream about a girl once dated?
Bobbie--take me away, perhaps to Indiana. Jon just read these poems, purchased...