Selected Poems: 1931-2004
10 best books like Selected Poems: 1931-2004 (Czesław Miłosz): Selected Poems, 1966-1987, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Without End: New and Selected Poems, Poet's Choice, Breathing the Water, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Winter Stars, Selected Poems and Three Plays, The Insistence of Beauty
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374258686 |
Heaney’s poetry is more a voice than a style.
It seems to have been written to be listened to rather than to be thoroughly dissected and scrutinized.
The evocative tinge of children’s ideals and the brutality of a land divided by history and religion pulsate underneath the serene,...
| Author | Jane Kenyon |
| ISBN | 1555972667 |
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
| Author | Anna Kamieńska |
| ISBN | 1557255288 |
Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...
| Author | Adam Zagajewski |
| ISBN | 0374528616 |
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"
Without...
| Author | Edward Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0156032678 |
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811210278 |
In the first collection of Levertov's poems that I read, I was struck by her anger and sadness over the Vietnam war, as well as the attention to the natural world I had expected. In "Breathing the Water," her talent for observation of the world around her is again on display, with that focus turned to not...
| Author | Eugenio Montale |
| ISBN | 0374526257 |
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet
Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822935112 |
Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. ...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0020715609 |
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...
| Author | Stephen Dunn |
| ISBN | 0393327434 |
"Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love, with its attendant pleasures and questioning....
| Author | Wisława Szymborska |
| ISBN | 0393323854 |
Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory...
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 0060969164 |
Robert Bly edited and introduced this short selection of William Stafford’s poems. It is much needed, since Stafford is an extremely prolific poet, and it is good to have an excellent judge like Bly to look through all the good stuff and choose the most characteristic and best. (It was Stafford’s...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068195 |
As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and knowledge of the natural world are all driven by a...
| Author | Paul Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1590171918 |
A New York Review Books Original
A master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English
In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians,...
| Author | Zbigniew Herbert |
| ISBN | 0060783907 |
This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060959010 |
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."
In poems...
| Author | Christian Wiman |
| ISBN | 0374150362 |
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets
Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions...
| Author | Octavio Paz |
| ISBN | 0811201503 |
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn,...
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555975496 |
The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey Gospel
In Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156035642 |
‘A dog trying to write a poem on why he barks,
That’s me, dear reader!’
‘Comedy and tragedy are never far from one another,’ Charles Simic, former US Poet Laureate (2007-2008), says in a recent interview with Granta magazine, wonderfully highlighting the thin balance of bottom-of-a-bottle...
| Author | André Breton |
| ISBN | 0976844923 |
Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the English language. Here, in a bilingual French-English...
