Selected Poems
9 best books like Selected Poems (Langston Hughes): A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, The Collected Poems, Paterson, The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society, Selected Poems, The Portable Beat Reader, Selected Poems, I Shall Not Be Moved
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811200418 |
This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 0679726691 |
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.
the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).
stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
Paterson is both a place—the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of the Passaic...
Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious...
Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0802829961 |
One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity. The role of both men and...
| Author | Carl Sandburg |
| ISBN | 0156003961 |
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate...
| Author | Ann Charters |
| ISBN | 0140151028 |
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs,...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0060882964 |
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."
— Robert F. Kiernan
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 0553354582 |
In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique...
