Poesi

Archy and Mehitabel

The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature.

The Dance of Death - 41 Woodcuts

The most celebrated work of the 16th-century woodcut master, these 41 illustrations are a stark reminder of a dramatic motif: "Remember, you will die." Includes various quotations, depictions, and meditations on death.

Book Of Longing

This new collection--20 years in the making--of poetry and original illustrations by the legendary Leonard Cohen is timed to coincide with the release of the feature-length documentary, "I'm Your Man."

Inferno

This groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendices that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences.

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

Representing the essential T. S. Eliot, these 25 works include the title poem plus the complete "Prufrock" ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," others) and the complete "Poems."

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Poet Jane Hirschfield illuminates the craft and mind of poetry, from the work of anonymous Egyptian love poets to that of Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, and Ginsberg, and shows poetry as a path to knowledge and transformation in contemporary life.

Wild Party - The Lost Classic

"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." -- "The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings...

Imagist Poetry: An Anthology

Over 180 well-chosen Imagist gems appear in this tribute to an important and influential poetic movement of the 20th century. Includes short verse by Pound, Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle, Joyce, Stevens, others.

Limericks for Thinkers - Some Semi-subversive, Lightly Lascivious, Immoderately Irreverent Eruptions

But you just can't offend people like that!Well, we don't expect thin-skinned moralists or religionists, or even political right-leaners to enjoy these limericks. But that leaves a lot of us to savor some good-humored swipes at dominant figures an...

Byron: Poems

To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of hi...

Very Bad Poetry

Writing very bad poetry requires talent--inverse talent, to be sure-- but talent nonetheless. The 131 poems collected in this anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tear...

Ted Hughes Reading His Poetry

A selection of poetry written and read by Ted Hughes.

New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Nobel Prize laureate Milosz is a master poet whose verse has often reflected the ancient themes of the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life. This collection is an essential book for Milosz's many fans and...

101 Poems That Could Save Your Life: An Anthology of Emotional First Aid

With works by Dorothy Parker, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, William Blake, Lucretius, and Thom Gunn, this collection of poetry is an anthology of emotional first aid.

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement - The Restored Edition a Facsimile of Plaths Manuscript Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement

This facsimile edition of Plath's posthumous volume of poetry restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement as she left it at the point of her death, and includes notes the poet made for the BBC.

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

Readers have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality. "My Sentence Was a Thousand Years" of Joy is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and persona...

Crossing the Water - Transitional Poems

<BR> Wuthering Heights <BR> <BR> The horizons ring me like fag-gots, <BR> Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. <BR> Touched by a match, they might warm me, <BR> And their fine lines singe<BR> The air...

Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems

A Brilliant Collection Spanning Half A Century, From One Of America's Most Prominent And Powerful Poets Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. He is a chronicler and mentor of young poets, was a leader of the antiwar movement, fo...

Book of Longing

From one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time comes this eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following Cohens highly acclaimed 1984 title "Book of Mercy."