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Collection of some of Sandburg's best and most characteristic poetry, drawn from throughout the course of his forty-year career, grouped by subject in roughly chronological order.

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...

Presents volume two of a six-volume set on great American poets and features over forty of the selected poems of Edgar Allan Poe including "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Eldorado."

Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences...

"The book now contains selections from the work of forty writers-- the sketches of the poets included have been made critical as well as biographical, and a list of references for supplementary reading has been added."--Preface to revised edition.

"Feels Like Home is a love letter to Ronstadt's Mexican American roots. It tells of her coming of age in the world between Tucson and the Rio Sonora region of northern Mexico, presented through stories, photographs, and recipes"--.

Presents a collection of poems that focus on women's lives and loves.

A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets Charles Wright's truth-the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging-is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the "stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things," and an expression of Wright's restless questing for a...

An autobiographical sequence of poems captures the richness and the pain, the rebellion and the tragedy of growing up in the South, chronicling the lives of two brothers living in a military family

"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...