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10 best books like The Painted Bed: Poems (Donald Hall): Book of My Nights, Second Space: New Poems, My Noiseless Entourage, Red Suitcase, The Best American Poetry 2006, Facts About the Moon, Sweet Ruin, Given Sugar, Given Salt, Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected, Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998

Book of My Nights
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1929918089
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...
Second Space: New Poems
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060755245
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as...
My Noiseless Entourage
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0151012148
This new collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal...
Red Suitcase
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238152
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her...
The Best American Poetry 2006
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0743257596
Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry.

In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he...
Facts About the Moon
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN0393329623
This is a great collection. I can't get over how well she uses image, how image opens and opens and you become swept up in it, and suddenly see that you've been privy to an entire story that now, in a way, has become part of your own life. There's much sensuality, some humor, tremendous tenderness and joy.

The...
Sweet Ruin
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN0299135845
Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation:  sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion.  With what Robert Pinsky has called “the saving vulgarity of American poetry,”  Hoagland’s small biographies of destruction...
Given Sugar, Given Salt
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060959010
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."

In poems...
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393316157
"Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic Monthly

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work,...
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998
AuthorLinda Pastan
ISBN0393046311
This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'" Since then, Pastan...
Atlantis
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060951060
3.5 i love poetry, it is often soothing to me, makes me look at things in different ways. This book came in my Strand book box, and it was a poet of which I had never heard. It highlights the beauty of the natural world, some striking images are invoked. It is also about death, death due to AIDS, but also the natural...
Hip Logic
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
News of the World
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0307272230
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).

In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent...
New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995
AuthorThomas Lux
One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997

Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human...
Our Lady of the Ruins
AuthorTraci Brimhall
ISBN0393086437
Winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world. Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers haunted by empire, God, and personal trauma.

from...
Let Evening Come
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1852246979
Through the screen door
I hear a hummingbird, inquiring
for nectar among the stalwart

hollyhocks - an erratic flying
ruby, asking for sweets among
the sticky-throated flowers.

The sky won't darken in the west
until ten. Where shall I turn
this light and...
Looking for the Gulf Motel
AuthorRichard Blanco
ISBN0822962012
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three...
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
AuthorAugust Kleinzahler
ISBN0374265836
The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant...
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