Selected Poems
10 best books like Selected Poems (Anne Sexton): The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Collected Sonnets, Contemporary American Poetry, Breathing the Water, The Selected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Migration: New and Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995
| Author | Ono no Komachi |
| ISBN | 0679729585 |
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...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| ISBN | 0060910917 |
More than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition. An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses...
| Author | A. Poulin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0395745322 |
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
| 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 | A.R. Ammons |
| ISBN | 0393303969 |
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:
and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)
This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
| Author | Louise Bogan |
| ISBN | 0374524610 |
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.
Roman Fountain
Up...
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 1556592183 |
Winner of the National Book AwardA New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin...
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0394702956 |
Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 at the age of seventy-five, ending one of the most controversial poetic careers of this century.
The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years in Germany and Switzerland...
| Author | Amiri Baraka |
| ISBN | 1568860145 |
Finally in print in a single volume, a selection from Baraka's mostly out-of-print collections of poetry, from 1961 to the present. Starting with Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note and concluding with recent limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides, this selection traces the more than thirty...
| 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 | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393961478 |
The editors have also taken into account the many essays on Rich and reviews of her work that have been published since 1975. Some earlier biographical selections have been replaced with works that focus on the quality of Rich's writing and her place in twentieth-century American literature--not...
| Author | Sylvia Plath |
| ISBN | 0060907894 |
Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath’s life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most...
| Author | Dorianne Laux |
| ISBN | 1880238071 |
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...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 1880238152 |
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her...
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822957930 |
Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John
When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060935405 |
This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox...
| Author | Dorothy Parker |
| ISBN | 0743211480 |
During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0374528640 |
Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet
This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, Lupercal, which introduced...
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0802130356 |
This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner, and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned,...
