Silence in the Snowy Fields
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| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 0689101902 |
| Author | Ai |
| ISBN | 0393320189 |
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0156301717 |
| Author | Adam Zagajewski |
| ISBN | 0374528616 |
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...
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 0811216721 |
In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.
Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of...
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202348 |
| Author | James Tate |
| ISBN | 0819511927 |
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)
The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger...
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0394702956 |
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 | Galway Kinnell |
| ISBN | 0618154450 |
I will go back to that silent evening
when we lay together and talked in silent voices,
while outside slow lumps of soft snow
fell, hushing as they got near the ground,
with a fire in the room, in which centuries
of tree went up in continuous ghost-giving-up,
without...
| Author | John Berryman |
| ISBN | 0374522812 |
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822957930 |
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 | Hayden Carruth |
| ISBN | 1556591101 |
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393323773 |
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1593760159 |
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1880238888 |
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...
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 1555972845 |
Heart's Needle
| Author | W.D. Snodgrass |
| ISBN | 0394722205 |
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...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811200469 |
Jackstraws
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156010984 |
| Author | Walt Whitman |
| ISBN | 0312267908 |
A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over two hundred poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's...
A Tree Within: Poetry
| Author | Octavio Paz |
| ISBN | 0811210715 |
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.
“...you are you and your body of steam,
you and your face of night,
you and your hair, unhurried lightning,
you cross the street and enter my forehead,
footsteps...