The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink
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| Author | Kay Ryan |
| Author | Catherine Barnett |
| ISBN | 1555976204 |
Everyone asks us what we're afraid of
but children aren't supposed to say.
We could put loneliness on the list.
We...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| Author | Bill Moyers |
| ISBN | 0688177921 |
The Dodge Poetry Festival seems enormous and a bit weird - audiences in the thousands show up to hear some of the best poets in America read, and they clap and...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670022543 |
Garrison Keillor, the editor of "Good Poems" and "Good Poems for Hard Times," host of "The Writer's Almanac," and all-around arbiter of fine American poetry, introduces another inspiring...
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 0811208214 |
| Author | Henri Cole |
| ISBN | 0374529280 |
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...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566891930 |
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell
“I was...
| Author | Catherine Bowman |
| ISBN | 0375713158 |
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 0609803794 |
List of contributors:
Edward Albee, Jennifer Allen, Danny Anderson, Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Robert...
| Author | Rae Armantrout |
| ISBN | 0819568791 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)
Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593761074 |
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520208641 |
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0812972961 |
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary...
State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems
| Author | Matthew Zapruder |
| ISBN | 1933517336 |
“Walking...
| Author | David Ferry |
| ISBN | 0226244881 |
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take...
Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0814332676 |
Best Food Writing 2014
| Author | Holly Hughes |
| ISBN | 0738217913 |
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060752475 |
| Author | Agnes Jekyll |
| ISBN | 1906462038 |
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 1501127632 |
Librarian...
| Author | Louis MacNeice |
| ISBN | 0571197450 |
“September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable...