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"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...
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I prepared a variorum edition: "The poems of Emily Dickinson" for the "Harvard University Press (3 vols., 1955) comprising a total of 1775 poems and fragments. The text of this edition-- reproduces solely and completely that of the 1955 variorura edition, but intended as a reading text, it selects but one form of each poem."--Introduction.
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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...
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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...
11) Good dog: poems
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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?
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"Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning,...
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times.
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