The Morning of the Poem
10 best books like The Morning of the Poem (James Schuyler): Complete Poems, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, The Whitsun Weddings, R E D, The Complete Poems and Major Prose, Selected Poems, 77 Dream Songs, The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0140188517 |
How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore?
I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.
Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140586687 |
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.
I could...
| Author | Philip Larkin |
| ISBN | 0571097103 |
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes...
| Author | Chase Berggrun |
| ISBN | 0991429885 |
In their acknowledgments, Bergrrun dedicates Red to survivors of rape, sexual abuse and domestic abuse. That dedication to the narratives of survivors comes through this epic erasure poem subverting the themes of bram stoker's Dracula to dazzling effect. For survivors, this book might bring some...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0872206785 |
I won't write a long review for this work, as I've written individual reviews for most of the works contained in it (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus, Samson Agonistes, Doctrine of Divorce, Christian Doctrine, etc.).
I picked up this collection about 8 or 9 years ago with the intent...
| Author | Anna Akhmatova |
| ISBN | 0140186174 |
Akhmatova’s poetry swept me off my feet. Without using her verses only as a response to the dramatic historical and personal circumstances of her time, she projected life and its vicissitudes with a tune akin to symphonic music.
Poetry as means rather than the result of a certain state of mind...
| Author | John Berryman |
| ISBN | 0571207693 |
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811211886 |
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...
| Author | Jack Spicer |
| ISBN | 0819568872 |
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative...
| Author | Octavio Paz |
| ISBN | 0811211738 |
Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone (Piedra de Sol)―here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger―made...
| Author | Forrest Gander |
| ISBN | 0811226050 |
WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018
Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical...
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143133187 |
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares....
