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April
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The
sounds of poetry: a brief guide
by Robert Pinsky
808.54 Pin
Explaining the principles of poetry (diction, syntax, accent and
stress, and verse form), Pinsky cites the work of 50 poets, from
Shakespeare and John Donne to Elizabeth Bishop and Frank Bidart, to
show how they have used sound—the "technology" of
poetry—to create works of art that are "performed" in us
when we read them aloud.
E.E.
Cummings: collected poems
by E.E. Cummings
811 Cum
This wonderful collection, containing 315 of Cummings's most appealing
poems, captures his high spirits, his tenderness, his wit.
The
complete poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
811 Dic
Complete is the keyword here as this is the only edition currently
available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were
originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume
set in 1955.
Good
poems
selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor
811.008 Goo
If you think that you have developed an immunity to poetry, Good Poems
will cure you of that sad illusion. Keillor has selected scores of
accessible poems that almost demand to be read aloud. Contributors
include Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Walt Whitman, Emily
Dickinson, Robert Frost, Donald Hall, Howard Nemerov, and Charles
Bukowski. Keillor's genial touch is everywhere apparent in these
selections.
Collected
poems
by W.H. Auden
811.52 Aud
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a
text that includes his final revisions, with corrections based on the
latest research. Auden divided his poems into sections that
corresponded to what he referred to as chapters in his life, each one
beginning with a change in his inner life or external circumstances:
the moment in 1933 when he first knew "exactly what it means to
love one's neighbor as oneself"; his move from Britain to America
in 1939; his first summer in Italy in 1948; his move to a summerhouse
in Austria in 1958; and his return to England in 1972.
Collected
poems
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
811.52 Mil
Compiled by her sister after the poet's death and originally published
in 1956, this is the definitive edition of Millay, right up through
her last poem, Mine the Harvest.
Selected
poetry of Ogden Nash
by Ogden Nash
811.52 Nas
Collects Nash's best work, featuring all his signature preoccupation,
from the unlikely pun to the keen observation couched in sneaky,
hilarious rhyme. Organized according to their offbeat subject matter,
here are Nash's poems in all their quirky glory.
Come
on in!: new poems
by Charles Bukowski
811.54 Buk
Bukowski's poems have something of the commodity about them; they are
a substance, like beer or bourbon, and one goes to them not for
quality in the whole but for the voice and attitude present in any
part. On this Bukowski delivers through a charismatic self-destructive
passion, simple and unserious pain ("it all seemed a joke to me,
even when some guy was / crushing my head against the edge of some
urinal"). And they offer no anodyne for this pain but simple and
unserious camaraderie. As the title poem puts it, "Plenty of room
here for us all, / sucker." - D. H. Tracy - The New York Times
Nine
horses: poems
by Billy Collins
811.54 Col
What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves,
quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly
into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins
continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the
mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and
increase his audience of avid readers.
Acolytes
by Nikki Giovanni
811.54 Gio
When her work first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, Nikki
Giovanni immediately became one of the most highly regarded and
controversial poets of the modern age and her popularity continues
today as she is celebrated in song, verse, and popular and literary
circles. Now this remarkable artist has penned a collection of
eighty all-new poems and prose pieces that retain her distinct vision
and voice yet mark a change of direction inspired by love,
celebration, memories, and even nostalgia.
The
winged seed: a remembrance
by Li-Young Lee
811.54 Lee
From the award-winning author of Rose comes his first book of prose
reflecting a personal and ancestral account that recalls and discovers
the significance of history, experience, myth, terror, and love. At a
time when works by Asian-American writers are in great demand, this
moving search for identity will have great appeal.
This
great unknowing
by Denise Levertov
811.54 Lev
When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty
finished poems, which form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.
Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work --
upon her death at age 74, she had been a published poet for more than
half a century. Although the poems of This Great Unknowing were not
organized by Levertov herself, as were the twenty collections she
published with New Directions in her lifetime, the poems themselves
shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.
Migration:
new and selected poems
by W.S. Merwin
811.54 Mer
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most
influential American poet of the last half-century-an artist who has
transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. This
collection is that case - a distillation of the best poems from a
profound body of work, and including a selection of new poems.
The
darkness around us is deep
by William Stafford
811.54 Sta
The author's pingent and sharp-edged poems about his mother and father
have been brought together here for the first time. Other
selections include his great poems on the Midwestern and Oregon
landscapes, his many poems on Crazy Horse, Ishi, and others from his
Native American heritage, and a selection reflecting his longtime
peace work and refusal to serve war.
Selected
poems
by Derek Walcott
811.54 Wal
Drawing from every stage of his career, this collection brings
together famous pieces from his early volumes with passages from the
celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which
extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem.
Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward
Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of
work, spanning almost half a century.
The
language of life: a festival of poets
by Bill Moyers
811.5409 Moy
In a series of fascinating conversations with a dazzingly diverse
cross section of American writers, this companion volume to a
thrilling new eight-part PBS series celebrates language in its
"most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form,
" and in its power to recreate the human experience. Contributors
include Gary Snyder, Jimmy Santiago, Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, and
many others.
The
seven ages
by Louise Gluck
811.6 Glu
The fierce, austerely beautiful, and visionary voice that has become
Glück's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in
unflinching awareness. Many of the poems in this collection bear the
familiar features of Glück's earlier work, returning to themes of
nature and the classical narratives that explain the phenomena of the
world around us.
Bucolics
: poems
by Maurice Manning
811.6 Man
Cascading from one page to another, the seventy poems in this
collection read like a love song to creation. Manning extols the
virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the
mysterious hand that created it all.
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