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10 best books like Worshipful Company of Fletchers (James Tate): The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, World's Tallest Disaster: Poems, Elegy On Toy Piano, Modern Life, Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, Some Trees, The Pajamaist, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World

The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0880014768
The Dream of the Unified Field is a selection of Jorie Graham's poems from five collections, including: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts , Erosion , The End of Beauty , Region of Unlikeness , and Materialism ...

From Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts ...

The slow overture of...
The Tunnel: Selected Poems
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN0374526982
The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry

"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
World's Tallest Disaster: Poems
AuthorCate Marvin
ISBN1889330612
Cate Marvin uses language the way a gymnast uses her body; she is a formalist who has thoroughly learned the pleasures and gains of abandon. But it is her excursions into wild image and passionate song that win the reader's heart. The heart is central in World's Tallest Disaster, which is essentially...
Elegy On Toy Piano
AuthorDean Young
ISBN0822958724
In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.

Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
Modern Life
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555974805
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world....
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556591942
Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright—with her Southern accent and cinematic eye—couples strangeness...
Some Trees
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0912946474
I used to read more poetry in the past, this is the first complete volume that I've read in a while. This one I read because it is quoted in Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future. I usually find that out of 50 poems, there are 2 or 3 that I can relate to, that speak to me. This doesn't mean the others are weak: With...
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...
Indeed I Was Pleased With the World
AuthorMary Ruefle
ISBN0887484670
from Indeed I Was Pleased with the World by Mary Ruefle:

Grief


First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
Veil: New and Selected Poems
AuthorRae Armantrout
ISBN0819564508
Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, emotion and punch of her social critique. Veil contains poems from five of Armantrout's previous books as well as a generous selection of new poems. Her work relies tenaciously on the intelligibility of...
Jelly Roll
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN0375709894
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized...
Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments
AuthorJoshua Marie Wilkinson
ISBN0877459819
Drawing from the paintings of Susan Rothenberg, Gwyneth Scally, and Eric Fischl as well as from the photography of Allison Maletz, Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk is a book-length poem written in small fragments. Comprised of seven sections, the poem...
Chronic
AuthorD.A. Powell
The first poetry collection by D. A. Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and
Cocktails, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness
that easily falls among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind
—from...
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,...
Goat In The Snow
AuthorEmily Pettit
ISBN0982617763
I first heard of Emily Pettit when I was looking through the Goodread Finalists in the Poetry category a couple of months ago. I tracked down a couple of her poems online to see if I'd like them (the reviews on Goodreads were very favourable), and decided to order myself a copy from the States. I'm glad I did;...
The Master Letters: Poems
AuthorLucie Brock-Broido
ISBN0679765999
I ordered this book from a second-hand site and enjoyed the annotations a previous reader included in this collection. Reading someone else's thoughts on the poems and their editing suggestions (which actually made a couple poems better!) was really fun and interesting.

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