BooksList.Best
Search

Say Uncle

10 best books like Say Uncle (Kay Ryan): Behind My Eyes [With CD], The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, American Smooth, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, After, The First Four Books of Poems, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, Black Zodiac, Blue Hour, Middle Earth: Poems

Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
AuthorOno no Komachi
ISBN0679729585
Japanese poetry is said to be originated in human heart and mind and grows in to the myriad leaves of words. The collection of poems The Ink Dark Moon is from the Heian era of Japanese literature, the era is considered as Golden Age in the history of Japanese literature. The language in that era was very inflected...
American Smooth
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0393327442
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from the glorious shimmer of an operatic soprano...
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...
After
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060779195
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
The First Four Books of Poems
AuthorW.S. Merwin
Half Roundel

I make no prayer
For the spoilt season,
The weed of Eden.
I make no prayer.
Save us the green
In the weed of time.

Now is November;
In night uneasy
Nothing I say.
I make no prayer.
Save us from the water
That washes us away.

What...
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811201910
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
Black Zodiac
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374525366
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects...
Blue Hour
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060099135
"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems...
Middle Earth: Poems
AuthorHenri Cole
ISBN0374529280
Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
Questions About Angels
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0822942119
Billy Collins can pack the house. Funny and laid-back, his clear, often brief poems are easy to understand and enjoy -- which is why his readings are sometimes standing-room-only affairs. Collins may be a college professor and NEA-grant recipient, but he's not above using a disinfectant ad as an epigraph....
Repair
AuthorC.K. Williams
ISBN0374527067
Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets

"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
Always, "What will have been done to me?"
And so we don our mental armor,
flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.
A violent...
Delights and Shadows
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556592019
American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration...
The Unswept Room
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375709983
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.

From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
This Clumsy Living
AuthorBob Hicok
ISBN0822959534
I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close the door of summer behind them, their heads floating on the golden tips, on waves that flock and break like starlings changing their minds in the middle of changing their minds, I saw their hips lie down inside those birds, inside the day of shy...
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811214583
A CRYPTIC SIGN

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...
Rising, Falling, Hovering
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556592736
C.D. Wright is one of America’s leading poets, an artist of idiosyncratic vision who demands ever more from words and poems. As Dave Eggers wrote in The New York Times, “C.D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.”

Rising,...
News of the World
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0307272230
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).

In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent...
Thrall
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN0547571607
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them...
Sea Change
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0061537179
The New York Times has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant her poetry is. In Sea Change, Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at...
Meadowlands
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880015063
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. The poems zing back and forth as the verses alternate between man and woman. "Flaubert had more friends and Flaubert was a recluse" says he, followed by her response, "Flaubert was crazy; he lived with his...
Ultramarine: Poems
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0394755359
Sick with exile, they yearn homeward now, their eyes turned to the ultramarine. . .

Here it is, early April, and I can tell you, with total confidence, that Ultramarine is the best in show, the best book of the year for me. The winner.

It is, simply put, one of the best books I've ever encountered...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024