The Lost Pilot
10 best books like The Lost Pilot (James Tate): The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, The Beforelife, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Science and Steepleflower: Poetry, The Branch Will Not Break, Shake, Field Guide, Some Trees, The Selected Levis
| Author | Frank Stanford |
| ISBN | 0918786509 |
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| ISBN | 0880014768 |
From Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts ...
The slow overture of...
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| ISBN | 0375709436 |
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
| Author | Forrest Gander |
| ISBN | 0811213811 |
| Author | James Wright |
| ISBN | 0819510181 |
“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...
| Author | Joshua Beckman |
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| ISBN | 0300076339 |
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| ISBN | 0912946474 |
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822957930 |
When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he 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 my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering...
| Author | Dean Young |
| ISBN | 0822956977 |
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 | Alice Notley |
| ISBN | 0140588965 |
| Author | Zachary Schomburg |
| ISBN | 0977770931 |
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156001292 |
Charles Simic now writes in English and lives in New Hampshire, but he was born in Belgrade, three years before the United States entered the Second World War. He has said that "being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me," and that “I'm still amazed by all the vileness...
| Author | Ashley Capps |
| ISBN | 1931968373 |
Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems
| Author | Tomaž Šalamun |
| ISBN | 1877727571 |