Selected Poems
10 best books like Selected Poems (Amy Lowell): Chicago Poems, Poems of Heinrich Heine, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, Collected Poems, 1943-2004, The Selected Poetry, The Collected Poems, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, The Blue Estuaries, The Poems of Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
Chicago Poems was published in 1916 and was Sandburg's first major volume of poetry. Most of the poems are about the city that he loved, and he viewed it as only a poet could; in it's starkness, it's beauty, and it's people. In it's first poem, the title poem, Chicago, Sandburg's first verse reads:
Hog...
| Author | Heinrich Heine |
| ISBN | 1440050783 |
Excerpt from Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems, Selected and Translated
But it needs something more than a list of antitheses to understand this restless genius, a confusing figure who has been paired with such names as Catullus, Aristophanes, Burns, Rabelais,...
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
| Author | Marjorie Perloff |
| ISBN | 0226660613 |
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information— a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s...
| Author | Richard Wilbur |
| ISBN | 0156030799 |
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters. Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most referenced trove of this beloved poet's best...
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| ISBN | 0375761233 |
One of America’s most celebrated poets—and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923—Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures...
| Author | Sara Teasdale |
| ISBN | 1568493452 |
I love Sara Teasdale's poetry in small doses. If you read too much of it at once, though, it gets to be decidedly too much on the same theme.
This is the poem that introduced me to her work. I knew it by heart from that very first reading, and secretly (or not secretly, now), rather feel this way myself,...
| Author | Delmore Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0811201910 |
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
| 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 | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0670031984 |
More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her Collected Poems (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled Complete Poems (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her body of verse...
| Author | James Wright |
| ISBN | 0819560227 |
I may skip a detailed review on this, simply because poetry reviews are a real ass kicker for me. Like work. But, that said, it deserves one. Wright is one best poets I've read (and I've read A LOT). One reason for this is that he's SO American in his settings and voice. If you like Whitman, you should like this...
Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only...
| 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 | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| ISBN | 0679765999 |
I ordered this book from a second-hand site and enjoyed the annotations a previous reader included in this collection. Reading someone else's thoughts on the poems and their editing suggestions (which actually made a couple poems better!) was really fun and interesting.
More to do with the...
| Author | Louis Zukofsky |
| ISBN | 0801856566 |
The American poet Louis Zukofsky received little public attention during his lifetime, though he was regarded by his literary contemporaries as one of the finest writers in the United States. Now in paperback, "Complete Short Poetry" gathers all of Zukofsky's poetry outside his 800-page magnum...
| Author | C.D. Wright |
| ISBN | 1556592167 |
C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.
Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0151185638 |
Librarian note: pages were hand counted from table of contents to last poem.
This selection from Cummings' first six books of poetry - Tulips and Chimneys (1923), XLI (1925), & (And) (1925), Is 5 (1926), W (Viva) (1931), No Thanks (1935) - also contains some additional poems and an introduction.
Later...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
| Author | Lisel Mueller |
| ISBN | 0807121282 |
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811214583 |
A CRYPTIC SIGN
August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.
AWARE
When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0374525471 |
First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0679761705 |
W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 1568580703 |
Illuminated Poems is the collaboration between two visionaries of different generations: Allen Ginsberg, the quintessential Beat and America's best-known poet, and Eric Drooker, an artist of the metropolis whose provocative images reflect life at the turn of the millennium. Illuminated Poems...
