The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
10 best books like The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine (Don Share): The Glass Menagerie, Brute: Poems, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems), Thirst, If They Come for Us, Blizzard of One, Appalachia: Poems, Head Off & Split, Alone on the Wall
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 0811214044 |
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...
| Author | Emily Skaja |
| ISBN | 1555978355 |
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0679723005 |
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 1595588760 |
"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted writer” (The New York Times), Walker imbues her poetry with evocative...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068969 |
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, she strives to experience...
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0375701370 |
Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny....
| Author | Charles Wright |
| ISBN | 0374526249 |
Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music,...
| Author | Nikky Finney |
| ISBN | 0810152169 |
Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee for 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split...
| Author | Alex Honnold |
| ISBN | 0393356140 |
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing...
| Author | Aracelis Girmay |
| ISBN | 1942683022 |
Praise for Aracelis Girmay:
"[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." —
O, The Oprah Magazine
Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas...
| Author | Kenneth Koch |
| ISBN | 0375710000 |
"For the last thirty years or more, Kenneth Koch has been writing the most exuberant poems in America. In an arena where such good spirits are rare, he has become a national treasure. In his book of personal addresses to what has mattered most in his seventy-plus years on the planet, there is a dimension...
On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom
| Author | Robert Van De Weyer |
| ISBN | 0764800566 |
This is a book of quotes from John Chrysostom's sermons. There are wonderful insights here, and many fabulous quotes on a surprisingly wide range of topics. Unfortunately, all of the passages are printed in isolation, without their context. There is no explanation given, no sermons printed in full,...
Living in Christ: Essays on the Christian Life by an Orthodox Nun
Over the last twenty years Mother Raphaela has written essays on the Christian life in her community newsletter as well as for other Church publications. These reflections, some of which are published in this little book, were born and shaped by her interactions with the women who came to test their...
| Author | Karl Ove Knausgård |
| ISBN | 8249507142 |
Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn én forstand: Min kamp blir utgitt som seks romaner. Første, andre og tredje bok utkom høsten 2009. Fjerde, femte og sjette bok utkommer våren 2010. Etter tre år på gymnaset i Kristiansand reiser...
