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10 best books like Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (Hayden Carruth): Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems, What We Carry, A Poet's Glossary

Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
AuthorDiane di Prima
ISBN0872862372
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....
Vice: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAi
ISBN0393320189
Ai's collection is startling, difficult, and important. Selected from the five books preceding this collection - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - these poems tackle dangerous parts of the human spirit in ways that leave readers gasping for air. Her metaphors and similes are often spiritual,...
Silence in the Snowy Fields
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0819510157
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead...
The Tunnel: Selected Poems
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
Selected Poems
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0819511927
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)

The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger...
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
AuthorAlan Dugan
ISBN1583225129
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his...
Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
AuthorRichard Hugo
ISBN0393307840
I think of this collection as an unintentional autobiography. If you read the poems from start to finish in the order presented, you follow Richard Hugo's progression from loneliness to love and friendship, addiction through recovery, and depression to hope. Most appealing of all are his poems revealing...
The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems
AuthorFrank Stanford
ISBN1557281939
Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction,...
What We Carry
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN1880238071
Hadn't read this in a dozen or more years (thanks again Boone), and it's hot-damn fantastic. Here's an excerpt from one of my favorites, "After Twelve Days of Rain," which you can hear her read here:

Today, pumping gas into my old car, I stood
hatless in the rain and the whole world
went...
A Poet's Glossary
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0151011958
A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.

Hirsch...
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...
Splay Anthem
AuthorNathaniel Mackey
ISBN0811216527
Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections—"Braid," "Fray," and "Nub" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: "the imperial, flailing republic...
The Mooring of Starting Out
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0880015470
Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted...
Splitting an Order
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556594690
One of the "Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"—Publishers Weekly

Paterson Poetry Prize, 2015

"Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda,The Washington Post

“Readers [of Splitting an...
Different Hours
AuthorStephen Dunn
ISBN0393322327
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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...
Time and Materials
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0061349607
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.

His...
The Simple Truth
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679765840
Brilliant, engaging, human and personal. Levine is one of the greats.

Ask for Nothing

Instead walk alone in the evening
heading out of town toward the fields
asleep under a darkening sky;
the dust risen from your steps transforms
itself into a golden rain fallen
earthward...
Even in Quiet Places
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1881090167
This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range...
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
AuthorLucia Perillo
Honored as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2012" by The New York Times Book Review"The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—New York Times Book Review


"Perillo...
Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems
AuthorTomaž Šalamun
ISBN1877727571
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Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
AuthorDavid Ferry
ISBN0226244881
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.

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...
Garbage
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393324117
"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning—'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life—not that of human beings alone, but every species—is shown to be part of an ultimate reality. Eternity is here and now. The argument ranges...
Heart's Needle
AuthorW.D. Snodgrass
ISBN0394722205

This Pulitzer Prize winner is considered to be the first volume of "confessional poetry." Snodgrass hated the term, but it can't be denied that something new began with Heart's Needle (1959). It is as resolutely formal as Yeats or Frost, yet remarkably frank about the particulars of its pain.

Snodgrass...
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