The Captain Lands in Paradise
10 best books like The Captain Lands in Paradise (Sarah Manguso): Worshipful Company of Fletchers, Deepstep Come Shining, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, A Hunger, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems, Elegy On Toy Piano, The Pajamaist, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Revised Edition), Zirconia
| Author | James Tate |
| ISBN | 0880014318 |
| Author | C.D. Wright |
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| ISBN | 0374526982 |
"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
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| ISBN | 1932511768 |
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| ISBN | 0822958724 |
Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
| Author | Matthew Zapruder |
| ISBN | 1556592442 |
“Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly
Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 0887484670 |
Grief
First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
| Author | Weldon Kees |
| ISBN | 0803258283 |
During his forty-first year, Weldon Kees’ depression deepened. He had institutionalized Ann, his wife of sixteen years, when a mammoth drinking binge (plus her compulsive TV viewing of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings) precipitated a psychotic episode; her failure to stay in treatment afterward...
| Author | Chelsey Minnis |
| ISBN | 0966332482 |
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| ISBN | 0393333752 |
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| ISBN | 0977901904 |
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| ISBN | 0811214885 |
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| ISBN | 1932511512 |
Overall, 3 3/4 stars.
***
Macabre in a creepily sing songy manner....
| Author | Brigit Pegeen Kelly |
| ISBN | 1929918488 |
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| ISBN | 1555973957 |
it's dark and you're all played out. you want to go home
no rule is left to this game. playmates scatter like
breaking glass
they return to smear the ______. and you're it
--from "[you'd want to go to the reunion: see]"
In...
| Author | Lynda Hull |
| ISBN | 1555974570 |
If each of us
contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility
then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . .
--from "The...
Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
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| ISBN | 0300089988 |
| Author | Sabrina Orah Mark |
| ISBN | 0975499017 |
The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected...
| Author | Amy Gerstler |
| ISBN | 0142000647 |
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| ISBN | 1933517433 |
Full of abuse and strange things . . .
In her second collection of poetry, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected...
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| ISBN | 0300148887 |
Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically...