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These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993

10 best books like These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993 (Lawrence Ferlinghetti): Mountains and Rivers Without End, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?, Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, The Beat Book, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, The Pajamaist, The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present

Mountains and Rivers Without End
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1887178570
When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder...
If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555976840
A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is “nothing short of blazingly original” (Time Out New York)

She didn’t even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, “Oh that’s just the backyard mermaid.”...
Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
AuthorBob Kaufman
ISBN0811200760
Published in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness assembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celebrated in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as "the American Rimbaud."

Kaufman, one of fourteen children born in Louisiana to a German Jewish father and a Black Catholic mothers,...
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971
AuthorLew Welch
ISBN0912516038
DIFFICULTY ALONG THE WAY

Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
is looking for a flashlight
when all you need the flashlight for
is to find your flashlight



..the following, a last stanza from poem: ["He Finally Reaches The City"]

Is this, then, the
Mystical...
Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
AuthorDiane di Prima
ISBN0872862372
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....
The Beat Book
AuthorAnne Waldman
ISBN1570624275
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living...
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811202348
This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey...
The Pajamaist
AuthorMatthew Zapruder
ISBN1556592442

“Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly


Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he...
The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems
AuthorFrank Stanford
ISBN1557281939
Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction,...
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...
I Was the Jukebox: Poems
AuthorSandra Beasley
ISBN0393076512
“These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, or historical moment has a soul with a voice. In these poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the surface of the page, smartly into the contemporary now.”—Joy Harjo, prize citation


from...
Elephant Rocks
AuthorKay Ryan
ISBN0802135250
Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan s third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan s poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental,...
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGregory Corso
ISBN1560252014
Republished with a new cover and a new introduction by David Amram, this publication includes forewords by two legendary Beat writers, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.


New rare sketches and notes from the author's personal journal, forewords from two of the world's leading...
King Me
AuthorRoger Reeves
ISBN1556594488
From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, King Me examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, "While writing King Me, I became...
The Collected Poems, 1975-2005
AuthorRobert Creeley
ISBN0520241592
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from "Hello: A Journal "(1978) to "Life & Death" (1998) and "If I were...
Ordinary Sun
AuthorMatthew Henriksen
ISBN0984475222
Poetry. Henriksen opens ORDINARY SUN by insisting that "an eye is not enough." Resisting solipsism, these poems negotiate that conflict between the mind and what exists outside the mind. Though pain intrinsically resides in that conflict Henriksen strives for an honest happiness, a kind of gorgeous...
The Book of Goodbyes
AuthorJillian Weise
ISBN1938160142

Winner of the 2013 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
A Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2013"
A NPR "Best Book of 2013"
A Coldfront Magazine "Top 40 Poetry Book" for 2013

“These fierce, hip, heartbreaking love poems call out to a lover who can’t be lived with or without. They’re...
Ultramarine: Poems
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0394755359
Sick with exile, they yearn homeward now, their eyes turned to the ultramarine. . .

Here it is, early April, and I can tell you, with total confidence, that Ultramarine is the best in show, the best book of the year for me. The winner.

It is, simply put, one of the best books I've ever encountered...
Poets on the Peaks
AuthorJohn Suiter
ISBN1582431485
Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and several others, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of the "Beat" life. Poets on the Peaks is about the development...
Book of Blues
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0140587004
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect...
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