Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
10 best books like Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Jane Hirshfield): The Book of Delights, The Tradition, A Poetry Handbook, Oceanic, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, The Shadow of Sirius, Black Zodiac, The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets, Caribou: Poems, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1556594860 |
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0156724006 |
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
| Author | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| ISBN | 1556595263 |
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, “the ribs / of a silver silo,” and the bright flash...
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher
Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined...
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 1556592841 |
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.
Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly.
"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth,...
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374525366 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects...
| Author | Sam Hamill |
| ISBN | 1570620199 |
Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion,...
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374119023 |
A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets
This is an old man’s poetry,
written by someone who’s spent his life
Looking for one truth.
Sorry, pal, there isn’t one.
—from “Ancient of Days”
Charles...
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
| Author | John McWhorter |
| ISBN | 1942658206 |
It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound...
