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10 best books like Selected Poems (Edna St. Vincent Millay): Personæ: The Shorter Poems, Civil War Poetry and Prose, Warhorses, Thomas and Beulah, Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso, How Does a Poem Mean?, Collected Poems, Second Space: New Poems, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, Selected Poems

Personæ: The Shorter Poems
AuthorEzra Pound
If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence" to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of...
Civil War Poetry and Prose
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0486285073
Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights...
Warhorses
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0374286434
This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships,...
Thomas and Beulah
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0887480217
No one can help him anymore.
Not the young thing next door
in the red pedal pushers,
not the canary he drove distracted

with his mandolin. There’ll be
no more trees to wake him in moonlight,
nor a single dry spring morning
when the fish are lonely for company.

She’s...
Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso
AuthorCharles Williams
ISBN0802815782
"Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars" are two collections of poems written by Charles Williams and based on the Arthurian legend. They are written from the perspective of Taliessin, the court poet of Camelot, and chronicle the history of the fabled kingdom. Being written...
How Does a Poem Mean?
AuthorJohn Ciardi
ISBN0395186056
~ The question to put to the poem is not "What does it mean?" but "How does it mean?"
"What does it mean?" inevitably invites paraphrase and inevitably leads away from the poem.
"How does it mean?" is best asked by absorbing the poetic structure as a poetic structure, i.e., as a countermotion across...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
Second Space: New Poems
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060755245
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as...
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811201805
The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate...
Selected Poems
AuthorFrancis Ponge
ISBN0916390586
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993
AuthorHeather McHugh
ISBN0819512168
When McHugh got the MacArhtur nod last year, it made me scramble to find some of her work on the internets, but as anyone who's read McHugh knows, I think that's a bad way to read her work.... These are poems that I think require a level of attention, to sound as well as idea, that I can't quite sustain when I'm...
New Selected Poems
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679740562
In ‘New and Selected Poems’, readers will find a real master craftsman at work. His language is conservative and seems simple at first, but when the poem blossoms we are all the more surprised and excited because of it. This book is a gem to read and contains a story, making it as hard to put down as your...
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374525064
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374514003
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised...
Collected Poems
AuthorRobert Hayden
ISBN0871401592
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World...
Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
AuthorStephen Burt
ISBN1555975216
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)

Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary...
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918
AuthorArthur Quiller-Couch
ISBN0198121075
The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million...
Even in Quiet Places
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1881090167
This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range...
New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems
AuthorRobert Frost
As I read more poetry, I'm starting to appreciate how little I appreciate it -- or at least the narrative form. I don't understand the point of narrative poetry. Why not just write a story? The point of these "verses" would make more sense in paragraphs.
As far as I can tell (granted, I only lasted 61...
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375710760
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
A Scattering
AuthorChristopher Reid
ISBN0955455367
Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory
the size and shape of a house.

As so often seems to happen to me, this collection came into my hands by serendipity. Perusing the shelves with poetry in the native language in the local library, A Scattering apparently had wandered off to...
Heart's Needle
AuthorW.D. Snodgrass
ISBN0394722205

This Pulitzer Prize winner is considered to be the first volume of "confessional poetry." Snodgrass hated the term, but it can't be denied that something new began with Heart's Needle (1959). It is as resolutely formal as Yeats or Frost, yet remarkably frank about the particulars of its pain.

Snodgrass...
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