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Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

10 best books like Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986 (Margaret Atwood): Death Is Not an Option, The Spice-Box of Earth, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Living a Jewish Life, Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), Averno, Cleansed, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, In the Pines, Duende

Death Is Not an Option
AuthorSuzanne Rivecca
ISBN0393072568
Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...
The Spice-Box of Earth
AuthorLeonard Cohen
ISBN0224006495
This is the second book of Cohen's poetry and it is filled with his unique brand of religion and sexuality, the sacred and the profane. One of the fascinating aspects of Leonard Cohen's poetry has been its elasticity and it's interesting to see how it has evolved over the years; you only have to look at the...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
Living a Jewish Life
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0062734431
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism, explained in ways that address the choices posed by modern life. From hanging a mezuzah to celebrating a wedding, from lighting Sabbath candles to choosing a synagogue...
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0307592669
One of America’s most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she...
Averno
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0374530742
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the...
Cleansed
AuthorSarah Kane
ISBN0413733300
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premièred at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998

A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and...
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN1573225851
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
In the Pines
AuthorAlice Notley
ISBN0143112546
A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets

Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of...
Duende
AuthorTracy K. Smith
ISBN1555974756
Every poem is the story of itself.
Pure conflict. Its own undoing.
Breeze of dreams, then certain death.
--from "History"
Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead...
Certain Magical Acts
AuthorAlice Notley
ISBN0143108166
An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness....
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
AuthorSusan Bordo
ISBN0520240545
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in...
The Carrying: Poems
AuthorAda Limon
ISBN1571315128
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.

Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
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