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10 best books like The Collected Poems (Theodore Roethke): Collected Poems, The Collected Poems, Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, The Complete Poems, The Dream Songs, Above the River: The Complete Poems, The Country Between Us, Praise, Selected Poems

Collected Poems
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374530327
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems...
The Collected Poems
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679726691
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.

the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).

stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811213994
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London...
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0880014768
The Dream of the Unified Field is a selection of Jorie Graham's poems from five collections, including: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts , Erosion , The End of Beauty , Region of Unlikeness , and Materialism ...

From Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts ...

The slow overture of...
The Complete Poems
AuthorHart Crane
ISBN0871401789
This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July...
The Dream Songs
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374530661
This edition combines The Dream Songs, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs. Of The Dream Songs, A. Alvarez wrote in The Observer, "A major achievement. He has written an elegy on his...
Above the River: The Complete Poems
AuthorJames Wright
ISBN0374522820
One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his Whtimanesque renderings of Neruda, Vallejo,...
The Country Between Us
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060909269
“Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called ‘political’ at the same time. This is a major new voice.” — Margaret Atwood

The Country Between Us opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché...
Praise
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0880012420

By the way, speaking of praise: in spite of the fact that Robert Hass merits much of it, for the clarity, the immediacy, the trenchant images, and the thoughfulness of his verse, I still find myself unwilling to grant him my love—as I love Donne, Keats, Mew, O'Hara, and James Wright—because I...
Selected Poems
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0819511927
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
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...
Elegy
AuthorLarry Levis
ISBN0822956489
A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine 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...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

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The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...
Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
AuthorRichard Hugo
ISBN0393307840
I think of this collection as an unintentional autobiography. If you read the poems from start to finish in the order presented, you follow Richard Hugo's progression from loneliness to love and friendship, addiction through recovery, and depression to hope. Most appealing of all are his poems revealing...
What Work Is
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679740589
Winner of the National Book Award in 1991
 
“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...
The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811211886
You really need to read the Collected to understand Williams. The various Selecteds out there really don't do this remarkable poet justice (though the review I read of Pinsky's new edited volume of Williams was positive--haven't checked that out yet). Williams was not just an Imagist poet, writing...
The Book of Nightmares
AuthorGalway Kinnell
ISBN0395120985
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with the arcane symbols
and worn typography
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