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10 best books like The Spice-Box of Earth (Leonard Cohen): The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Our Andromeda, Seam, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002, The Dead and the Living, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Bliss, New Collected Poems, Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN0939010275
Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles...
Our Andromeda
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN1556594100
Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"

Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of “Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy,...
Seam
AuthorTarfia Faizullah
ISBN0809333252
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi...
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN1573225851
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN0393325342
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous...
The Dead and the Living
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0394715632
I saw that others were reading this review, so I pulled out this book at dawn and reread it and edited/ added some things in my review. Like this poem:

Possessed (for my parents)

I have never left.
Your bodies are before me
at all times, in the dark I see
the stars of your teeth...
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0876854374
Bukowski the fiction writer and Bukowski the poet always seemed to be two different people. I've read a handful of his poems over the years and recognized a fire in him that is totally lacking from his novel work. In his poems, there lies a confident drunk, asleep at the wheel of life, seamlessly floating...
Bliss
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN0141196130
Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. In these three tales, aglow with light and colour, Mansfield describes an exultant epiphany, fading...
New Collected Poems
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811214885
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811215423
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952 the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, shortly after his death. This book was then and remained, for all practical...
Second Childhood: Poems
AuthorFanny Howe
ISBN1555976824
The new poetry collection by Fanny Howe, whose "body of work seems larger, stranger, and more permanent with each new book she publishes" (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)

People want to be poets for reasons that have little to do with language.
It's the life of the poet that they want.
Even...
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