Poetry / Poems
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Then the War
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Threshold
Book SynopsisA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egypt'sindeed, the Arab world'sgreat outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary bohème, a home for Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti-State agitators and People like me. These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like the smell of guava mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, the breath of two bodies that never had enough time / and so took pleasure in their mounting terror. Mersal's most recent work illuminates the trials of displacement and migration, as well as the risks of crossing boundaries, personal and political, in literature and in life.The Threshold gathers poems from Mersal's
£13.60
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Beyond Belief
Book SynopsisA rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the necessary and great poet (Hyperallergic).It's presumptuous, but if you're reading this youProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:The worldboth the word and what it stands forand time,Which is or isn't real, depending on my mood. I've alwaysHated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,But since I don't know what that means anymore, here I am,Musing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . .In Beyond Belief, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time, language and literature, and the space between attention and belief. The eleventh book of poetry from America's philosopher-poet is an intimate, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page, the accumulation of moments and memories, or nothing at all
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux In the Blood
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Acts
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ararat
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Only Sing
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux New and Collected Hell
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Cemeteries and Galaxies
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Other Love
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Poor
£18.09
Random House USA Inc The Mercy
Book SynopsisPhilip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book's mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship that brought the poet's mother to America: A nine-year-old girl travels all night by train with one suitcase and an orange. She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough.
£14.40
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Blizzard of One Poems
Book SynopsisStrand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with 'the weather of leavetaking,' but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.
£14.17
Random House USA Inc All of Us
Book SynopsisA rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets.Like Raymond Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy.This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver’s five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver’s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.
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Penguin Random House LLC The Beforelife
Book SynopsisIn this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the precarious transition from illness to health in a state of skeptical rapture, discovering along the way the exhilaration of love--both divine and human--and finding that even the most battered consciousness can be good company. Whether he is writing about his regret for the abortion of a child, describing the mechanics of slander ('I can just hear them on the telephone and keening all their kissy little knives'), or composing an ironic ode to himself ('To a Blossoming Nut Case'), Wright''s poems are exquisitely precise. Charles Simic has characterized him as a poetic miniaturist, whose 'secret ambition is to write an epic on the inside of a matchbook cover
£18.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Fall
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Random House USA Inc Jelly Roll
Book SynopsisIn 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 songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Wild Gratitude
Book SynopsisWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 1986“This is a lovely and moving collection, and it has not only the courage of its strong emotions, but the language and form that makes and keeps them clear and true.” —Anthony Hecht “Hirsch remains a poet of celebration, but the sorrows of the world are here too, in equal measure. The language is, throughout, simple, sensuous, and direct. We can be grateful for this book and this poet.” —Jay Parini “I have known the poetry of Edward Hirsch for some time, and have greatly admired it. But I even more greatly admire his Wild Gratitude as a general collection, and I am convinced that the best poems here are unsurpassed in our time.” —Robert Penn Warren
£17.09
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Burnt Island
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Gods Silence
Book SynopsisIn this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding (“No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified / terrify”), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy (“In a clearing in the cornstalks . . . it was suggested / that I fire / on that muttering family of crows”). Throughout this volume, Wright continues his penetrating study of his own and our collective soul. He reaches a new level of acceptance as he intones the paradox “I have heard God’s silence like the sun,” and marvels at our presumptions:We speak of Heaven wh
£13.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Wallace Stevens Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThe first new selection of this acclaimed poet’s work in nearly twenty years—now in paperback—is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.
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Random House USA Inc News of the World
Book SynopsisIn this “characteristically wise” (The New York Times Book Review) collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Philip Levine brings us finely made, powerfully telling imagery from the worlds of hand, heart, and mind.
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Random House USA Inc Break Blow Burn
Book SynopsisAmerica’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.
£15.26
Random House USA Inc Sailing Alone Around the Room
Book SynopsisSailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
£14.45
Random House USA Inc The Trouble with Poetry
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry From Nerval to Val Ery in English Translation
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WW Norton & Co The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Book SynopsisA complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country's most influential poets.
£16.14
WW Norton & Co The Search for the Panchen Lama
Book SynopsisAn excellent primer on Tibetan history and ...a chilling picture of the brutality of Chinese repression in Tibet.-Wall Street Journal
£21.91
WW Norton & Co Against Love Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets.
£14.56
W. W. Norton & Company Call Me Ishmael A Book of Ghazals
Book Synopsis"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library JournalTrade Review"His ghazals offer a path toward a level of lyric expansiveness few poets would dare to aspire to." -- Michael Palmer
£13.50
WW Norton & Co Traveling Light
Book SynopsisDark rhyming lyrics about love and impending loss. The poems may shake you, so be forewarned. Alan Cheuse, NPR
£15.42
Alfred A. Knopf The Prophet
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Penguin Publishing Group The Best of Robert Service
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£21.47
Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Poetry of the 1930s A Critical Anthology
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Penguin Random House Group The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe
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Clube de Autores Salvados
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Blurb Theres Always At Least One Asshole in the Room
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Jessica Urlichs All I See Is You
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Jessica Urlichs All I See Is You
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National Library of New Zealand Let Us Praise The Lord
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£10.40
Castle Press Home
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Castle Press Home
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Grumpy Dog Publishing The Roaring 20s Vol.1
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Jocelyn Newport you are beautiful maybe i am too
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Cambridge University Press The Calling of Kindred Poems from the English Speaking World Cambridge School Anthologies
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Poetry Remedy
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