Poetry

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

von Leonard Cohen

For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and...

Sparrow: Poems

von Carol Muske-Dukes

Sparrow, a luminous new volume of poetry by acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Carol Muske-Dukes, draws the reader into a mesmerizing world of love and loss. In the wake of personal tragedy, the death of her...

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1955, National Book Award for Poetry 1955

von Wallace Stevens

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:

- "Harmonium"

- "Ideas of Order"

- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"

- "Parts of the World"

- "Transport...

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

von Wallace Stevens

When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected...

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

von Wallace Stevens & Holly Stevens

A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier Collected Works...

The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems

von Billy Collins

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people...

Poegles

von Justin Hendrix

Poegles: A Short History and Collection is a book of poetry created by rearranging the sentences generated by Internet search engines. A poegle is a poem that you make from other people's words (“Poemâ€...

The Eagle's Mile

von James Dickey

Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet

The Poems of Norman MacCaig

von Norman MacCaig

‘I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig’s work. It is an ongoing education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry . . . He means poetry to me’ – Seamus...

Dreaming Frankenstein

von Liz Lochhead

‘Human relationships, especially as seen from a woman’s point of view, are central: attraction, pain, acceptance, loss, triumphs and deceptions, habits and surprises; always made immediate through a storyteller’s...

Weeds and Wild Flowers

von Alice Oswald & Jessica Greenman

Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at...

Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Celebration

von June Cotner

Celebrate the life passages shared only between mothers and daughters in this uniquely moving collection.

Mothers and Daughters reveals the full breadth and depth of the mother-daughter bond as only poetry...

Country Music: Selected Early Poems

National Book Award for Poetry 1983

von Charles Wright & David St. John

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.

Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3

von Mark Rudman

The remarkable third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 1994

von Mark Rudman

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Erasures

von Donald Revell

A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events

Beautiful Shirt

von Donald Revell

The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities....

Of Gravity & Angels

von Jane Hirshfield

A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry.

Death Tractates

von Brenda Hillman

A celebrated poet asks anguished questions about separation and loss.

Sea Room

von Maria Flook

A poetic exploration of love, fear and god.