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The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets

10 best books like The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets (Bill Moyers): The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Fuel, Touch the Earth, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, The Book of Light, Source

The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach
AuthorRobin Behn
Part of me wants to hate on writing-by-formula, but I like this book a lot and was interested in a lot of the exercises. It's a good read on its own, even if you don't intend to use any of the prompts. After each prompt, the author explains why s/he finds these particular constraints valuable. I liked Agha...
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060929480
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes...
Fuel
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238632
Hidden

If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.

If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in...
Touch the Earth
AuthorT.C. McLuhan
Read borrowed copy after was suggested to me, published in 1971. Has stories and memories and essays from various Native Americans. Organized by those of Nature, of the white man, their losses and their desire to keep going. The first chapter is my favorite, beautifully written, quite spiritual. A...
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555972667
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
AuthorElise Paschen
ISBN1570717206
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,...
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
AuthorRobert Bly
Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship...
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets
AuthorFlorence Howe
ISBN0060965177
A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove."This is a fabulous, heavy event: an updated edition of the pioneering and beautiful anthology "No More Masks!,...
The Book of Light
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1556590520
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. Her awards include the Juniper Prize for Poetry, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and...
Source
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060935405
This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox...
The City in Which I Love You
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0918526833
Contents

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...
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0393048209
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
AuthorHayden Carruth
ISBN0553262637
I purchased a copy of this book before leaving for Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1974. For two years I lived in a mud hut in a small village on the edge of the Sahara, far from running water, electricity, or anybody who spoke english.

The Voice That Is Great Within Us kept me excellent company...
Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
Teahouse of the Almighty
AuthorPatricia Smith
ISBN1566891930

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...
What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0679765948
This is probably my favorite poem from the book. Just beautiful.



On guard

I want you for my bodyguard,
to curl round each other like two socks
matched and balled in a drawer.

I want you to warm my backside,
two S's snaked curve to curve
in the down burrow...
How I Grew
AuthorMary McCarthy
ISBN0156421852
I picked this up at the transfer station and though not a fan of memoir I'll give it a shot starting this evening. Read "The Group" many years ago and saw the so-so movie. Which one was the author? Shirley Knight(Hopkins) I think... MM was born the same year as my father and lost both her parents to a flu epidemic....
Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0739320114
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often...
Love
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0786881488
Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century....
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN1400047994
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver

This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation...
Domestic Work: Poems
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN1555973094
Winner of the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award

In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken...
The Collected Poems
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393322947
The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz remains ardent in celebrating life....
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