Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995
10 best books like Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995 (Amiri Baraka): Zong!, Sleeping With the Dictionary, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness, The Selected Poems, The Poems of Marianne Moore, Selected Poems, Splay Anthem, Breath
| Author | M. NourbeSe Philip |
| ISBN | 0819568767 |
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these...
| Author | Harryette Mullen |
| ISBN | 0520231430 |
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions,...
| 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...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0679750800 |
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner,...
Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
| Author | Bob Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0811200760 |
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,...
| Author | A.R. Ammons |
| ISBN | 0393303969 |
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:
and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)
This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0670031984 |
More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her Collected Poems (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled Complete Poems (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her body of verse...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811215202 |
Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry -- the work of a...
| Author | Nathaniel Mackey |
| ISBN | 0811216527 |
Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections—"Braid," "Fray," and "Nub" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: "the imperial, flailing republic...
| Author | Philip Levine |
| ISBN | 0375710787 |
Always a poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine looks back at his own life as well as the adventures of his ancestors, his relatives, and his friends, and at their rites of passage into an America of victories and betrayals. He transports us back to the street where he was born “early in the final...
| Author | Donald M. Allen |
| ISBN | 0520209532 |
With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679742522 |
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1880238888 |
Lucille Clifton: Ave Atque Vale
Lucille Clifton is gone but her legacy of simple, honestly felt, seemingly spontaneously written poems about the live of ordinary people who become icons almost by accident will live on, especially through the collection of her works in this award winning...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
| Author | Faiz Ahmad Faiz |
| ISBN | 0870239759 |
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.
The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
| Author | Carol Schaefer |
| ISBN | 1590302931 |
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and...
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0142001392 |
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
| Author | Dudley Randall |
| ISBN | 0553275631 |
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the...
| Author | A. Van Jordan |
| ISBN | 0393327647 |
MacNolia by A. Van Jordan is a wonderful poetry collection worth reading many times. It reads like a novel because the author provides a fairly integrated story imagined by Jordan but based on a real life event. He doles out the background information in hints and pieces from several viewpoints throughout...
| Author | Sonia Sanchez |
| ISBN | 1893996808 |
“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”—Isabel Allende
A reprint of Sonia Sanchez’s award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award.
Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar...
| Author | Robert Creeley |
| ISBN | 0520069366 |
Impulses stir
To write a review
Using
The clipped,
Broken
What use is such unfinished verse, what does matter with coffee breath, a taillight out and a strange dream about a girl once dated?
Bobbie--take me away, perhaps to Indiana. Jon just read these poems, purchased...
Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood
| Author | Peter Medoff |
| ISBN | 0896084825 |
This book was assigned for my grad school class on Community Equity and Asset Building (my favorite class of grad school to date). It details the founding and development of a grassroots group called the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) in a poor neighborhood of Boston in the late 1980s...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0060882964 |
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."
— Robert F. Kiernan
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for...
| Author | Edward Kamau Brathwaite |
| ISBN | 0199111030 |
When I first read this book in a Caribbean Lit. class I had a rudimentary appreciation of the craft, but I did not relate to the place, the history, the culture, etc. that it describes. I knew nothing of African mythology, and my personal background was very far away from the Caribbean and Africa. My experience...
Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars: A Memoir
| Author | Lauralee Summer |
| ISBN | 0743257928 |
Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars is a memoir about growing up homeless. Lauralee Summer and her eccentric, idealistic mother move repeatedly in search of work and a better life, but most often find happiness and security only in their relationship with each other.
When she reaches junior...
