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10 best books like The Seven Ages (Louise Glück): What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems, Mother Love, Smoke, Sun under Wood, Late Wife, Science and Steepleflower: Poetry, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, The Angel of History, Elegy On Toy Piano, Middle Earth: Poems

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393327094
Reading poetry from a familiar poet and knowing it's going to be good is one thing, reading poetry from a poet you know nothing about and being blown away is quite another. Kim Addonizio has reaffirmed my faith that poetry in the 21st century is alive and kicking. Her verse is down to earth, dealing with...
Mother Love
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0393314448
Just pulled this collection off my shelves and dove into it, and by the third poem or so wondered what took me so long to find it and actually read it.

The poems in this volume are tough but delicate. Dove's use of imagery and voice are stunning; I'm drawn into the ways in which Dove weaves her personal...
Smoke
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN1880238861
Dorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully...
Sun under Wood
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0880015578
Robert Hass demonstrates once again the unmistakable intelligence and original voice that have won him both literary acclaim and the affection of a broad general readership. Here Hass extends and deepens his ongoing explorations of nature and human history, solitude, and the bonds of children,...
Late Wife
AuthorClaudia Emerson
ISBN0807130842
In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for...
Science and Steepleflower: Poetry
AuthorForrest Gander
ISBN0811213811
His poetry has been called "desperately beautiful" by Thom Gunn in Agni Review, and "original and fascinating" by John Ashbery. With poems in the leading journals of the day -- American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Conjunctions, The Boston Review, to name just a few -- Gander plumbs the erotic depths...
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
AuthorJean Valentine
ISBN0819567132
Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award, Jean Valentine has published eight collections of poetry to critical acclaim. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine's poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers...
The Angel of History
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060925841
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. These poems reflect the effects of such experience:...
Elegy On Toy Piano
AuthorDean Young
ISBN0822958724
In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.

Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
Middle Earth: Poems
AuthorHenri Cole
ISBN0374529280
Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
Granted
AuthorMary Szybist
ISBN1882295374
Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love—particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness...
Fox
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393323773
In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues...
The Painted Bed: Poems
AuthorDonald Hall
ISBN0618340750
Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in THE PAINTED BED, the beloved might be a person or something else - life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall's new poems...
The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English
AuthorCor van den Heuvel
ISBN0393321185
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
The Orchard
AuthorBrigit Pegeen Kelly
ISBN1929918488
Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader...
Blood, Tin, Straw
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375707352
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.

From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
Sad Little Breathing Machine
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555973965
Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by the New Yorker
as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically
inventive," offers her second stunning collection

Units are the engines
I understand best.

One betrayal, two.
Merrily, merrily, merrily.
-from...
The Continuous Life
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0679738444
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....
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...
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