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10 best books like The Poems of Marianne Moore (Marianne Moore): The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Collected Poems, 1943-2004, Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, Selected Poems, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, Collected Poems, The Blue Estuaries, Migration: New and Selected Poems, Insomnia Diary

The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
AuthorMina Loy
ISBN0374525072
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the Times Literary Supplement Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists....
Collected Poems, 1943-2004
AuthorRichard Wilbur
ISBN0156030799
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters. Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most referenced trove of this beloved poet's best...
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN1598530178
Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody...
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811201910
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
Selected Poems
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0819511927
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)

The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger...
Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN0374526982
The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry

"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
Collected Poems
AuthorDonald Justice
This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

Up...
Migration: New and Selected Poems
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556592183
Winner of the National Book AwardA New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin...
Insomnia Diary
AuthorBob Hicok
ISBN0822958422
One of the best books of poetry I've read. Hicok can hit hard, but he doesn't lose himself in savagery--there's room in his attitude for sensitivity and bemusement. Often, when he does work with a bitter pen, he aims it at his own self, but even there he flavors his vinegar with compassion. Most importantly,...
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
AuthorAlan Dugan
ISBN1583225129
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his...
Selected Poems
AuthorAmy Lowell
ISBN0813531284
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period, she produced six volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, a two-volume biography of John Keats, and countless articles and reviews that appeared...
The Selected Levis
AuthorLarry Levis
ISBN0822957930
Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John

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...
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
AuthorDavid Lehman
ISBN0743243501
A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry...
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Revised Edition)
AuthorWeldon Kees
ISBN0803258283

During his forty-first year, Weldon Kees’ depression deepened. He had institutionalized Ann, his wife of sixteen years, when a mammoth drinking binge (plus her compulsive TV viewing of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings) precipitated a psychotic episode; her failure to stay in treatment afterward...
My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer
AuthorPaige Ackerson-Kiely
ISBN1934103276
Poetry. Poems of a loneliness that quarrels with itself from the far edge of love, this is a collection of would-be love poems chastened by experience. "I was a Promethean dilettante disabused of tinder," says the speaker, who later observes, "After you reach adulthood / no one bets you'll set this world...
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556592167
C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.

Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems
AuthorGabrielle Calvocoressi
ISBN0892553154
Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in "Circus Fire, 1944," which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the...
Trouble in Mind: Poems
AuthorLucie Brock-Broido
ISBN0375710221
With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her own allegory,”...
Cocktails
AuthorD.A. Powell
ISBN1555973957
kids everywhere are called to supper: it's late
it's dark and you're all played out. you want to go home

no rule is left to this game. playmates scatter like
breaking glass
they return to smear the ______. and you're it
--from "[you'd want to go to the reunion: see]"

In...
Awe
AuthorDorothea Lasky
ISBN1933517247
If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The secrets she tells are truths we recognize in...
Selected Poems
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0375711732
Wallace Stevens' poetry is non-easy,
which likely is why to most readers,
even those of poetry, these poems
are regarded less highly than by more
academically inclined aficionados
of the art form, who are apt to rank
the man similarly to others such as
T.S. Eliot, Ezra...
Ghost Girl
AuthorAmy Gerstler
ISBN0142000647
Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD...
Selected Poems
AuthorFanny Howe
ISBN0520222636
One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event.

Howe's theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting,...
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