The Art of the Lathe
10 best books like The Art of the Lathe (B.H. Fairchild): The Lice, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Vice: New and Selected Poems, Astonishments: Selected Poems, My Alexandria, The Branch Will Not Break, Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, Winter Stars, Middle Earth: Poems, All-American Poem
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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” When I first heard this Emily Dickinson quote, I knew exactly what she meant. After all, I had read The Branch Will Not Break when I was eighteen.
It was 1967. I was already writing verse--very bad verse--and...
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like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
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| Author | Brian Turner |
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| Author | Dean Young |
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With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young’s latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes...
| Author | Philip Levine |
| ISBN | 0679740589 |
“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous...
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The...
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555973868 |
How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?
With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?
and a sewage system of selective forgetting?
and...
| Author | Mary Szybist |
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I.
Furious Versionis
II.
The Interrogation
This Hour And What Is Dead
Arise, Go Down
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
For A New Citizen Of These United States
With Ruins
III.
This Room And Everything In It
The City...
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| ISBN | 0809329972 |
Fraught with madness, brutality, and ecstasy, Traci Brimhall’s Rookery delves into the darkest and most remote corners of the human experience. From the graveyards and battlefields of the Civil War to the ancient forests...