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Presents more than thirty unabridged poems from American author Robert Frost's early works, originally published as a collection titled "Mountain Interval."

Matthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet's life--rom David Foster Wallace to the poet's father. Zapruder's poems are direct and surprising, and throughout the book he wrestles with the desire to do well, to make art, and to face the vast events...

This book unfolds a man. Its two hundred poems reveal, in root, bud and flower, a way of knowing how to be alive. In "Open House" Theodore Roethke seeks his essential self, his authentic voice. Next, in "The Lost Son and Other Poems", he creates a place for the naked being to inhabit, a world of plans that struggle for life, of human excitement at natural events, of identity emerging from bereavement. "Praise to the End!" is marked by an extraordinary...

"His territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse."--The New York Times. "Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."--Huffington Post. "Richard Siken's debut, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize, sold over 20,000 copies, and earned him a devoted fan-base. In this much-anticipated second book, Richard Siken seeks definite answers to indefinite questions: what it means...

In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It₂s a doggie delight! These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will be your best friend?

Presents the collection of poems by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman, and includes an introduction, a chronology of Whitman's life, a time line of significant events, an outline of key themes and plot points, explanatory notes, and other reference tools.

Presents more than forty poems by New York poet Grace Schulman.

A collection of 294 poems, chosen and introduced by Garrison Keillor, host of National Public Radio's "The Writer's Almanac," including selections from classic and contemporary poets, grouped by topic.