Selected poems, 1964-1983

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[email protected] Read any book by the touching, spare, philosophical, and simple poet Charles Simic. Read this if you hate poetry. read this if you love poetry. Today most poets are mired in the concrete. Masters of decorative language, they don't seem to have a point.

Simic is a must read for poets 5/5(4). Selected poems, Paperback – January 1, by Marjorie Pizer (Author)Cited by: 1. Selected Poems, book. Read 11 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Made by the author himself from 40 years' work, this sele /5.

Selected poems, by Douglas Dunn; Selected poems edition; First published in Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem.4/5.

This book contains a selection of poems made by the poet from books published up to Some Trees (), The Tennis Court Oath (), Rivers and Mountains (), The Double Dream of Spring (), Three Poems (), Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (), Houseboat Days (), As We Know (), /5.

Selected poems. Gwendolyn Brooks. Harper & Row, - Poetry - pages. 2 Reviews. This volume brings together the best of the Pulitzer Prize winner's work from three earlier books now out of print, and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book form/5(2).

His Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, ) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This was followed by two further collections from Bloodaxe, Approach to Murano inand The Cured Arno, published posthumously in He published two books with Cornish imprints, The Bouncing Hills, humorous dialect stories and light verse (Truran 5/5(1).

Frank O'Hara () was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O'Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the city's.

John Donne was an English poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons/5.

This approach provided me much easier access to Cummings than slogging through the poems in chronological order. Kennedy introduces each of the twelve sections of the book with a short commentary.

Together, the commentaries and the brief Introduction make this SELECTED POEMS an ideal vehicle for getting to know Cummings and his poetry/5(77).

"The books from which this selection has been made are: Terry Street (), The happier life (), Love or nothing (), Barbarians (), St. Kilda's parliament (), and Elegies ()"--Jacket. Description: ix, pages ; 21 cm: Other Titles: Poems.

Responsibility: Douglas Dunn. She is a charming and original poet,” commented Robert Lowell about the book that introduced Stevie to American readers, her Selected Poems (New Directions, ). The Selected won her many enthusiasts, but it was not until the release of Hugh Whitemore’s film Stevie in that her poetry found a wider audience and sent that little book /5(4).

Get this from a library. Selected poems [Douglas Dunn]. Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century.

A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place 4/5(6). Selected Poems, Seamus Heaney was the winner of the Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements.

Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, "Station Island," as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S/5. This significantly expanded edition of W.

Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the 5/5(2).

The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets/5(8).

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a /5(3).

About Selected Poems. Though John Updike is widely known as one of America’s greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his last were poetry collections, and in the fifty years between he published six other volumes of verse.Hardcover.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. th Thoiusand. One Hundred Selected Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Pub A & C Black. th edition Frontispiece: "The Beautiful Land of Nod". (in colour) Pale blue boards have a water stain on the front, otherwise very good.

Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Seller Inventory #   Words Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-awaited collection draws from Naomi Shihab Nye's three critically acclaimed books: Different Ways to Pray, Yellow Glove, and National Poetry Series winner, Hugging the Jukebox.5/5(5).