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Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

10 best books like Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Naomi Shihab Nye): The Collected Poems, 1957-1982, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Book of My Nights, Collected Poems, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985, Migration: New and Selected Poems, Different Hours, Alive Together, Given Sugar, Given Salt

The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN0865471975
A longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity...
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
AuthorYehuda Amichai
ISBN0520205383
Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent...
Book of My Nights
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1929918089
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
AuthorDonald Hall
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.

One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0822958775
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation.

In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier...
Migration: New and Selected Poems
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556592183
Winner of the National Book AwardA New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin...
Different Hours
AuthorStephen Dunn
ISBN0393322327
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...
Alive Together
AuthorLisel Mueller
ISBN0807121282
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the...
Given Sugar, Given Salt
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060959010
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."

In poems...
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393316157
"Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic Monthly

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work,...
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1555972845
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as...
Twelve Moons
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0316650005
In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. these vibrant, magical poems pulse with...
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998
AuthorLinda Pastan
ISBN0393046311
This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'" Since then, Pastan...
Atlantis
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060951060
3.5 i love poetry, it is often soothing to me, makes me look at things in different ways. This book came in my Strand book box, and it was a poet of which I had never heard. It highlights the beauty of the natural world, some striking images are invoked. It is also about death, death due to AIDS, but also the natural...
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375710760
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
An Atlas of the Difficult World
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393308316
XIII (Dedications)

I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in a bookstore...
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