Selected Poems
10 best books like Selected Poems (Gabriela Mistral): Reeds in the Wind, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong, Collected Poems in English, Blue Hour, From the New World: Poems 1976-2012, Poetry of the Thirties, Árbol de Diana, The Half-Finished Heaven
| Author | Grazia Deledda |
| ISBN | 0934977631 |
The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt, and retribution. Deledda presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed...
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393334163 |
"The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditates on her own process as she encourages writers to explore both their personal and political worlds,...
| Author | Jaroslav Seifert |
| ISBN | 0945774397 |
Just found this gem - had never heard of him before - at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska, where I am currently visiting. I am trying not to crack the spine as I read it but these poems are so good, I don't think I'll make it!
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Jaroslav Seifert's words are bound together with something...
| Author | Hồ Xuân Hương |
| ISBN | 1556591489 |
Hồ Xuân Hương — whose name translates as "Spring Essence" — is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and...
| Author | Joseph Brodsky |
| ISBN | 0374528381 |
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Here, collected for the first time, are...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060099135 |
"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...
| Author | Jorie Graham |
| ISBN | 0062315404 |
An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.
The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war...
| Author | Robin Skelton |
| ISBN | 0141184574 |
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil...
Prologado por Octavio Paz, esta obra supuso el reconocimiento definitivo de la autora por parte de la crítica. Los poemas son mayoritariamente cortos, todos en verso libre, plagados de contradicciones y sugerencias a veces increíbles por su lucidez. La soledad de la conciencia, del ser humano,...
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 1555973515 |
From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators,...
| Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
| ISBN | 0520081889 |
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties...
| Author | Saadi Youssef |
| ISBN | 1555976298 |
New poetry by Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, one of the major voices from the Arab world
The country we love was finished
before it was even born.
The country we did not love has claimed
the blood left in our veins.
...
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0307262960 |
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who recounts the fetching mystery...
| Author | Stanley Kunitz |
| ISBN | 0393322947 |
The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz remains ardent in celebrating life....
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
| Author | Faiz Ahmad Faiz |
| ISBN | 0870239759 |
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.
The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
| Author | César Vallejo |
| ISBN | 0520245520 |
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award...
| Author | Conrad Aiken |
| ISBN | 0195165470 |
Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, Aiken remains a unique influence...
| Author | Chelsey Minnis |
| ISBN | 1933517417 |
A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous.
If you open your mouth to start to...
| Author | Nicanor Parra |
| ISBN | 8437607779 |
La publicación en 1954 de "Poemas y antipoemas" revoluciónó la poesía y la manera de poetizar en todo el mundo hispanohablante. Su éxito fue inmediato en todos los sectores. La voz natural del cantor lírico se transformó en la de un antilírico adversario de sí mismo. El discurso está constituido...
| Author | Kei Miller |
| ISBN | 1847772676 |
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually...
A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics.
Spanning the Elizabethan...
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| ISBN | 0393308227 |
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...
| Author | Susan Howe |
| ISBN | 0819511943 |
Since Susan Howe came to read last week, I’ve been thinking that I really must immediately read everything she’s ever written starting now go. Before hearing her read I’d read her major works: The Europe of Trusts (which I’m planning on re-reading because it was almost a decade ago I read it);...
