Time and Materials
10 best books like Time and Materials (Robert Hass): Stag's Leap: Poems, Life on Mars, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Native Guard, The Wild Iris, The Collected Poems, Complete Poems, Lunch Poems, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375712259 |
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs,...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 0618872655 |
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0880013346 |
I had a Creative Writing teacher who asked me once if I would like anyone other than myself to read my poetry. When I answered, “Yes,” she advised me to make the suffering in my poems more universal and less personal.
Poetry is obviously personal, but she explained to me that, if I had a husband...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385086016 |
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor you, whatever....
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0140188517 |
How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore?
I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.
Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0872860353 |
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations,...
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0819512117 |
Poetry "reconnects us to the act of dreaming ourselves into existence," Komunyakaa once wrote. Once you pause a minute to consider the pain that has served as an outline in this poet's life, and when you also consider the highfalutin awards and professorial prestige given to a man whom people still seem...
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
| Author | Deborah Solomon |
| ISBN | 0878466843 |
No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell abound--as the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679767770 |
QUESTIONE DI SGUARDI
La scrittura di Berger mi ha subito avvolto, familiare, ma senza privarmi di stupore.
Questa volta mi ha sollevato e trasportato in un viaggio alla fonte del mito e del tempo.
Un viaggio fatto di nomi epici scelti con cura.
Di geografie dello spazio e della...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679736549 |
In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and...
| Author | Stephen Dunn |
| ISBN | 0393322327 |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's...
| Author | Ted Kooser |
| ISBN | 1556592019 |
American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration...
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0394747704 |
I think "The Gold Cell" rests more comfortably in the 3.5 star space, but alas. Is this a great volume? Not to my mind. It is a quite good one, very solid in places, and stunning in a few. The thing is, just as it shines brightly in some moments, it falls entirely dull at others. I found the section on her father...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0307960587 |
benightedly i gave this 4 stars i'm sorry/you are/yes/why
did you give it 4 stars/i wanted it to be like Aof
R/ poetry is never the same/as i'm learning mostly
from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from
the book itself/some of these poems are surreal/they
are/you don't...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0008800130 |
In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
In...
