Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: poems, selected, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-23
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 080211914X
ISBN-13: 9780802119148
Kay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder.” The two hundred poems in Ryan’s The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: poems, narrative
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156027984
ISBN-13: 9780156027984
Lewis often said that his favorite form of literary expression was the narrative poem, although he appears to have written just four, all of which are collected here. They exhibit the romantic aspects of his temperament and reveal his deep love for medieval and Renaissance poetry. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
Author: Edwin Markham
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: poems, hoe, man
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1417904801
ISBN-13: 9781417904808
Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: poems, uncle
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2000-09-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802137172
ISBN-13: 9780802137173
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, warhorses
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374531919
ISBN-13: 9780374531911
This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. “Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?” he asks, and the question is hardly moot: “Sometimes I hold you like Achilles’ / shield,” and indeed all relationships, in this telling, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in Taboo or Talking Dirty to the Gods, and in long poems like “Autobiography of My Alter Ego” he sounds almost breathl
Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: poems, selected, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-09-13
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618154450
ISBN-13: 9780618154456
Read A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell’s myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early formalism blossom into long, joyous, almost Whitmanesque lines; but most of all, read it for the eagle’s-eye view it provides of one of our finest American poets. Well into his 70s, Kinnell is still producing poetry as visceral as it is philosophical, forging the universal from the fleshy, messy specifics of life. "Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" comes the cry in "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible," a remarkable war poem
Author: Erica Funkhouser
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: poems, pursuit
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-02-17
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0618381872
ISBN-13: 9780618381876
Erica Funkhouser’s poetry finds in the natural world a leaping-off point for all types of human inquiry: physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Her fourth collection, Pursuit, gives us poems devoted to the details of living, poems that illustrate how a domestic moment may turn suddenly erotic or how a wave of grief may open inexplicably into triumph. Whether driven by elemental need or sublime desire, the inhabitants of these thought-provoking poems engage in seeking of every kind.
