Poetry / poems by individual poets
Stanford University Press Basho and His Interpreters Selected Hokku with
Book SynopsisThis book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94). The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.Trade Review"The first book in a Western language that conveys the richness, range, genius, and power of Basho's poetry. . . . A gem of a work."—Chanoyu QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The making of a poet, 1644-1677 2. Haikai master in Edo 1678-1683 3. Two western journeys, 1684-1688 4. The narrow road to the far north, 1689-1691 5. Last years, 1692-1694 Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
£31.50
Stanford University Press The Wild God of the World
Book SynopsisThis anthology serves as an introduction to Robinson Jeffers' work for the general reader and for students in courses on American poetry. Jeffers composed each volume of his verse around one or twolong narrative or dramatic poems.Trade Review"For too many decades Jeffers has been the forgotten giant of American poetry. The Wild God of the World gathers his best and most central work. For those who would discover Jeffers, the intense beauty of his poems of the California coast; the reach of his meditations on history, science, and God; and the lyricism of his personal poems, this is the place to start-and a place to return again and again." -Tim Hunt, Washington State University "Of all the poets of his generation, [Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon runs and hunting hawks, his subject. As that relation grows more troubled, his words become more necessary. To have this beautifully edited and freshly seen anthology is a gift." -Robert Hass,University of California, Berkeley
£74.70
Louisiana State University Press The Governor of Desire Poems
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£14.20
Longleaf on Behalf of Lsu Press Alive Together New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisIn 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.
£18.95
LSU Press PS3569L3 Poems Poetry
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£15.15
LSU Press Change of Address Poems New and Selected
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£21.80
LSU Press Faster Than Light New and Selected Poems 19962011
Book SynopsisConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of African American individuals and communities.
£16.10
LSU Press Black Aperture Poems Walt Whitman Award
Book SynopsisIn his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humour. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning.
£15.15
LSU Press No More Time
Book SynopsisOffers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, “A Field Guide to People”, is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a meditation on a species of flora or fauna that is thriving, endangered, or extinct.
£15.15
LSU Press Winthropos
Book SynopsisWhile the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.
£17.05
Louisiana State University Press Unusually Grand Ideas
Book SynopsisTitled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood.
£16.10
Louisiana State University Press Lures
Book SynopsisWritten almost exclusively in traditional, modified, and nonce forms, the poems in Lures renegotiate grief, trauma, southern masculinities, and fatherhood with unflinching resolve. With Lures, Adam Vines proposes that by reconstructing the stories from our past, we gain a greater understanding of our cultural identities and inheritances.
£15.15
Louisiana State University Press Doll Apollo
Book SynopsisWith lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems in Doll Apollo merge mythology with close attention to the patterns, colours, and contours of the material world. Melissa Ginsburg’s feminist ecopoetics weaves the domestic and celestial into considerations of female identity, desire, spiritual yearning, and doubt.
£15.15
LSU Press Divine Ratios
Book SynopsisThe speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not only physical-a traveler’s movement in a crowded, thrilling world-but imaginative, and its poetic idiom is no less varied, as a breezy conversational tone serves as a counterpoint to traditional form.
£16.10
Louisiana State University Press Now You Can Join the Others
Book SynopsisA second collection of poetry by Taije Silverman that traces the absurdities of desire, the shifting nature of grief, and the concentric circles of history and myth that ripple around motherhood and marriage.
£16.10
LSU Press The Court of No Record
Book SynopsisJenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse.
£16.10
Louisiana State University Press Sibilance
Book SynopsisThe word ‘sibilance’ refers to pronunciations of the letter ‘s’, including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abecedarian order.Trade ReviewTactile, luminous, and original in voice, Sally Van Doren's Sibilance is a journey of the body and its elusive ache and the shape of living in the name of life itself." - Rachel Eliza Griffiths"Van Doren transports us from the inside of our own bodies to the cosmos in a single line and renders even the banalities of life with an imagery that gains in power, pulling the poems of this collection into one ecstatic dance." - Emma Sheanshang"Van Doren's trim and brisk poems display a thrilling diction at every turn. She applies wit and acuity equally to both exultation and elegy." - Chanda Feldman"Sibilance is a beautiful, propulsive excavation and magnification of life's transitions. At times heart-wrenching, Van Doren's voice is piercingly anatomical, yanking us deeper into a synesthetic understanding of colors as emotions, trees as companions, bodies as maps." - Phyllis Grant
£16.10
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Cabin Fever Contemporary Poetry
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£27.96
Northwestern University Press Ashes and Diamonds European Classics
Book SynopsisOriginally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation.
£18.66
Northwestern University Press City of Ash Writings from an Unbound Europe
Book SynopsisAlthough the city in the title of this collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, the text serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. The poems search for personal and historical meaning within the context of time.
£20.60
Northwestern University Press My Sister Life European Poetry Classics
Book SynopsisIn Russian poetry, Boris Pasternak's My Sister-Life is the equivalent of The Waste Land, Spring, and Harmonium. Written in 1917, the cycle of poems in My Sister-Life concentrates on personal journeys, but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October revolution.
£15.26
Northwestern University Press Novas Selected Writings AvantGarde Modernism
Book SynopsisAn introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Selected Lyric Poetry Northwestern World Classics
Book SynopsisIncludes many famous poems well known to, and often memorized by, every educated Russian, as well as lighter, more occasional pieces. This title presents a collection of 167 of Pushkin's lyrics arranged chronologically, beginning with verse written in the poet's teenage years and closing with lines composed shortly before his death.
£15.26
Northwestern University Press Poems
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£18.66
Northwestern University Press Forest Primeval Poems Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Book SynopsisVievee Francis’s poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors - faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The reader who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Sky Below Selected Works Curbstone
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£18.66
Northwestern University Press Russian Absurd
Book SynopsisA writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. This selection of prose and poetry provides the most comprehensive portrait of the writer in English translation to date, revealing the arc of his career and including a particularly generous selection of his later work.Trade Review“[A] profound and subtle testament to Kharms and his brutal era.” - Times Literary Supplement
£19.96
Northwestern University Press City of Bones A Testament Triquarterly Books
Book SynopsisAs if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes's inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Mother Tongues Poems
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore.Table of Contents Mother Tongues Table of Contents (i) Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii mother tongue (1) 1 On the Isle of Lesbos Our Mother of Stone Daughtering And They Didn't Die In Praise of the Great Cat * lingua: corral Five Bagatelles Fingerings flare Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist Blue Note Bandwagon Cooking with Miles Relaxing with Miles * lingua: tongue-tied Tell me something good A Song at Dawn Auxiliary Prelude to a Kiss First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement After Tonsure * lingua: ladyfingers Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood Electioneered Old News After the Coup (or Not) The Crystal River Profile How I Write * lingua: good tast Real Simple Way Out West Autumn Leaves Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear morning, 11.9.16 Burying Willie, Our Lion Malick Sidibé's Camera Calls * lingua: gorgon Benin Bronze Unaccompanied Minor Children's Swings Pond in Museum Garden Ritual Object The Body Counts at war Wildcat * lingua: a quick tongue The Graves Suite Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue 3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again Koan of the Great Cat * lingua: babble We are the darker sister Boy Lotus Three Lessons on a Friday Stumbling Block Facing El Greco When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said Infinitive
£15.26
Northwestern University Press Love Childs Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
Book SynopsisOffers a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured artifacts - copper coins struck from a new matrix for poetry.Trade Review“A paean to the culture of African Americans and their history and culture of survival through creativity—in your face, loud, emotional, outrageous truth.” —Ed Roberson, author of To See the Earth Before the End of the World
£23.96
Northwestern University Press Migrant Psalms Poems Drinking Gourd Chapbook
Book SynopsisBoth reverent and daring, this collection of verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.Trade Review['OTM'] transcends the list poem so far as to create its own unique form. This is the form of all of Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s work. The conclusion of his poem 'Poder' describes and defines this original form: 'moving us farther and farther / away from the world being just rhetoric, / into the structure of its design . . . / knowing this too is poetry.' Reader, this is poetry." —Ed Roberson, from the introduction "Darrel Holnes captures beautifully the deep investment in hope (and in the divine) that immigrants must make, and the deeper investment in themselves that fuels their hope. And with vibrant images, compelling narratives, and witty and affective turns of phrase, he sings the ambivalence of arrival and the shifting blues of self-making. Migrant Psalms is a wise and soulful debut, a gem of a book." —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas: PoemsTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Kyrie 2. Poder 3. OTM or Other Than Mexican 4. Naturalization 5. Amending Wall 6. The 21st Century Poem
£10.76
Northwestern University Press What Water Knows Poems
Book SynopsisJacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water, from water wielded as a weapon to used as a reward.Trade Review“Such a vibrant and beautiful book. I truly read it with my heart in my throat. LaMon speaks a language at once as familiar and foreign as love itself—with so much love. There is such a deep quietude to this book. She takes us beneath the covers of what it means to be a woman, to be a mother, to be Black, to be trapped—and finally, what it means to be free. I cannot wait for this book to be in the world. Everything I needed right now.” — Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and the author of Red at the Bone: A Novel“With intimacy and clarity, What Water Knows offers us transcendent, lyric language that explores womanhood, race, history, justice, love, and the politics of our identities contained by the memory of water, released by it, or both. Fluid in her craft, LaMon’s powers are fully claimed here. In a poem about womanhood, she writes ‘We were our own fine line, / never crossed.’ Elsewhere LaMon asks a timeless question for us all: ‘What is it you need when you’re fleeing your home?’ The poet’s intuition and intelligence rise and crest without ending, and in remarkable turns of self-knowledge, strength, and grace, the intimations of water are as elusive and marvelous as the poet’s desire. Indispensable and elemental, What Water Knows achieves a truth that does not spare our most primal needs. Aware of the ordinary and celestial energy of language itself, and what it may mean to choose to speak at all in any form, the poet writes, ‘Some would say there are no oceans between us, only / land. I would say it all depends on the direction we choose to face.’” — Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Seeing the Body: PoemsTable of Contents I: This Fragile, Resilient Life No One Eats Icicles Anymore Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495 Travelogue What Happens When a Brother Flees Up the River “Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water” Pipeline Lemonade Mob Six Niagara Ownership What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air All That We Need to Be Happy On Watch for the Spontaneous The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding Nine to the Limit Prodigal The Browning II: The Open, Empty Mouth We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems Thermostat This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground Disregarding the Alarm The Night Before Euthanasia What We Wear to Meet the Water Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body The Merchant Seaman’s Wife Rockaway And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away Quiet on the Set Still Life Polar Vortex My Body Speaks of Hatred Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink? Martini III: The Promise of Relief The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time Socratic We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors Cruise to Nowhere Bathwater Breaking & Entering Ornithology Aftermath Holding Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows Primate The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There Bay One Currency What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air Skully In the Beginning Commitment That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance Acknowledgements
£15.26
Curbstone Press Hatch
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£16.16
Northwestern University Press Hapax
Book SynopsisHapax is ancient Greek for ""once, once only, once and for all,"" and ""onceness"" pervades this book of poems. Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, the author displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms modes for expressing intelligent thought.
£37.46
Northwestern University Press Head Off Split
Book SynopsisThe poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.
£15.26
Northwestern University Press The Human Race
Book SynopsisArrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when François Mitterand, visiting the camp in an official capacity, recognized the dying Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelme's story of his experiences in Germany indelibly marked an entire generation.Trade Review[Antelme's] grave and moving plea, not for retribution but for understanding, is reinforced by his endurance . . . human dignity in a nutshell."—New York Times Book Review"The Human Race is an astonishing book, a unique book. It is a masterpiece of literature without anything literary, it is a document in which the words render the whole richness of a lived experience. It is a work whose pure simplicity roceeds froma profound sense of human complexity, for Antelme never ceased to be aware that the tormentor who seeks to deprive his victim of his human quality is himself a human being. It is a work written without hatred, a work of boundless compassion such as that found only in the great Russians."—Edgar Morin
£999.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Kanthapura
Book SynopsisRaja Rao's Kanthapura is one of the finest novels to come out of mid-twentieth century India.
£14.24
New Directions Publishing Corporation Vienna Blood Poetry
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£999.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Of the Great House Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of poems discussing illusion and reality, the nature of time, and the meaning of death
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Frame Structures
Book SynopsisIn Frame Structures, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last.Trade Review"Her work is a voyage of reconnaissance in language, a sounding out of ancient hiding places,and it is a voyage full of risks. ''Words are the only clues we have,'' she has said. ''What if they fail us?''" -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Poetry Pilot
£999.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Look Out A Selection of Writings Bibelots New
Book SynopsisPersonal favorites selected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet himself.
£10.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Christmas Poems A Holiday Gift Book New
Book SynopsisAwake the voice! Awake the string! Dark and dull night fly hence away, And give the honor of this day That sees December turned to May. William HerrickTrade Review"A wonderful stocking stuffer."
£10.41
New Directions Publishing Corporation Eiko and Koma
Book SynopsisPoet Forrest Gander's mesmerizing series of poems hinging around a dance schematic that captures and extends Eiko & Koma's performance with lyrical intensity and vividness
£10.41
New Directions Publishing Corporation Blasts Cries Laughter
Book SynopsisA new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old.
£10.41
New Directions Publishing Corporation Dirty Poem
Book SynopsisConsidered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar'sDirty Poemwas written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands.Trade Review"One of the region’s most important poets." -- Art Forum"I am a fervent admirer of Ferreira Gullar’s scandalously beautiful Dirty Poem. It makes me feel like a child before a tropical forest or a soaring monument." -- Clarice Lispector"In fine translation from the Portuguese, Leland Guyer captures the richness of language of Gullar's poetry--from local idioms to the language of displacement." -- Bruna Dantas Lobato - Asymptote Journal
£10.41
New Directions Publishing Corporation Shards Fragments of Verses
Book SynopsisFerlinghetti’s fiery translation of the little-known 14th-century Roman poetTrade Review"Lawrence gets you laughing then hits you with the truth." -- Francis Ford Coppola"Delicious morsels of twelfth-century verse." -- The Paris Review
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Gondwana
Book SynopsisA new collection by America's internationalist poeta vision both original and universal (Octavio Paz)Trade Review"In book after book, Nathaniel Tarn has traced the feelings, thoughts, and rituals that establish what and where we think we are." -- Joseph Donahue - First Intensity"Tarn’s lessons [are] delivered as though by the Ancient Mariner. He treats poetry as the apposite medium for dealing with such large concerns as ecology, cosmology, war, memory, and apocalypse... An original." -- Hudson Review"For Tarn, human truth is an inseparable union of physicality and spirituality, the sexual wisdom of the body uniting with and being penetrated by the psychological gifts of the shaman and the scientist, the poet and the priest." -- Laverne Frith - New York Journal of Books"While poetry is narrowing its concerns, Tarn risks a scale epic enough to contain mountains and oceans. He keeps his lines of communication open to more than one life form; with a prophetic sureness of direction." -- Geoffrey O’Brien - Village Voice
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Works and Days
Book SynopsisA brand spanking new collection, Works and Days is classic Bernadette Mayer: fresh, learned, exciting, and endlessly surprisingTrade Review"Sly, spry and unpretentious..." -- Michael Robbins - Chicago Tribune"Powered by Mayer’s unique reflections on the mythologies of social and linguistic order, Works & Days possesses a rare combination of artfulness, critical acumen, and personality. The end result is a book that is at once formally inventive and disturbingly of our times." -- Michael Miller - NBCC"Works & Days shows a veteran poet as relentless innovator." -- William Lessard - The Brooklyn Rail"Mayer’s poetic career embodies that generous impulse: Most of her 20-odd books and collaborations show by effusive, charming, sometimes hyperbolic example how to reject any model of poetry that requires perfection and uptight isolation. Instead, her unrhymed sonnets, her seemingly slapdash odes, her versified diary entries let her, and her readers, live in the moment, opening us up to other people’s cares and joys and wishes and words, in the New York City art scene where she began and in the greener parts of New York State — “Albany and Rensselaer counties” — that provide her territory now." -- Stephen Burt - The New York Times"Her latest collection, “Works and Days,” which came out this June, is among her very best, colliding daily struggles (menstruation, money) with natural obsessions (blue herons, mushrooms) and big unanswerable questions (Is motherhood virtuous? Whither patriarchy?). All of this is undergirded by a hefty serving of irony… Mayer writes the kind of nonsense that makes sense, and sense that is nonsense: I can’t think of a better centering device in these topsy-turvy times." -- Daniel Wenger - The New Yorker"The richness of life & time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in her magnificent work." -- John Ashbery"One of the most interesting, exciting, and open experimental poets." -- Tom Clark - San Francisco Chronicle"Love and the seasons and the exigencies and opportunities of daily survival are the inevitable occasions of a body of work that is as radical as it is Horatian, able as little else is both to delight and instruct." -- Edwin Frank - Boston Review
£12.34
