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10 best books like Selected Poems (Derek Walcott): Selected Poems, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Without End: New and Selected Poems, Poet's Choice, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, After, The Selected Poems, This Time: New and Selected Poems, Modern Life

Selected Poems
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0679750800
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people.  Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner,...
Vice: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAi
ISBN0393320189
Ai's collection is startling, difficult, and important. Selected from the five books preceding this collection - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - these poems tackle dangerous parts of the human spirit in ways that leave readers gasping for air. Her metaphors and similes are often spiritual,...
Selected Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156003961
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collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln.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...
Without End: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAdam Zagajewski
ISBN0374528616
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...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
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...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
AuthorDonald Hall
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.

One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
After
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060779195
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
The Selected Poems
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393303969
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...
This Time: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGerald Stern
ISBN0393319091
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long /...
Modern Life
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555974805
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world....
Selected Prose
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0156806541
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited...
Repair
AuthorC.K. Williams
ISBN0374527067
Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets

"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
Always, "What will have been done to me?"
And so we don our mental armor,
flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.
A violent...
Time and Materials
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0061349607
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.

His...
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068845
From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes "the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be."

In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver...
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1880238888
Lucille Clifton: Ave Atque Vale

Lucille Clifton is gone but her legacy of simple, honestly felt, seemingly spontaneously written poems about the live of ordinary people who become icons almost by accident will live on, especially through the collection of her works in this award winning...
Sweet Machine
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060952563
Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, Sweet Machine, see the world from a new, hard-won perspective:...
Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
AuthorOsip Mandelstam
ISBN0062099426
A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century.

Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation...
Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge
AuthorHarryette Mullen
ISBN1555974562
Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary


if you turned down the media
so I could write a book
then you could look me up
in your voluminous recyclopedia
-from Muse & Drudge

Recyclopedia...
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
AuthorEdward Kamau Brathwaite
ISBN0199111030
When I first read this book in a Caribbean Lit. class I had a rudimentary appreciation of the craft, but I did not relate to the place, the history, the culture, etc. that it describes. I knew nothing of African mythology, and my personal background was very far away from the Caribbean and Africa. My experience...
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556594852
A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry...
Is Just a Movie
AuthorEarl Lovelace
ISBN0571255671
In the town of Cascadu, Trinidad, the 1970 Black Power rebellion has failed. Sonnyboy, hapless and luckless, is desperate to be recognised as part of the rebellion and forces the uninterested police to arrest him. KingKala, a singer, returns from detention and is sidelined in the calypso tent, his...
Dearest Creature
AuthorAmy Gerstler
ISBN0143116355
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet

Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues,...
Rumi: A New Translation
AuthorRumi
ISBN9350290820
Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with contemporary audiences finding new meanings in them. Rumi's...
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