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Liquid Paper
New and Selected Poems
Av Peter Meinke
Häftad, 1991
338 kr
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Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in “the new formalism.” His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous …
Satan Says
45th Anniversary Edition
Av Sharon Olds
Inbunden, 2025
348 kr
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A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Gorgeous Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors AlikeMs. Magazine Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of …
When Thy King Is A Boy
Av Ed Roberson
Häftad, 1970
289 kr
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C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Tattooed Desert
Häftad, 1971
297 kr
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Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the …
Windows and Stones
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1972
373 kr
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Translated by May Swenson, Leif SjobergAn International Poetry Forum Selection, translated from the Swedish by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Tomas Tranströmer 2011 Nobel Laureate in Literature“Tomas Tranströmer, who is today one of Sweden’s most distinguished poets . . . can compare Lake Malar at …
Etai-Eken
Av Ed Roberson
Häftad, 1975
297 kr
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Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and …
Bus to Veracruz
Häftad, 1978
297 kr
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In Shelton’s fourth collection of poems, he writes of the desert Southwest, and through it gives his unique view of the world. The poems speak of landscape, marriage, freedom, and death.
Sure Signs
New and Selected Poems
Av Ted Kooser
Häftad, 1980
297 kr
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Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accesible to the reader not …
Axion Esti
Häftad, 1974
297 kr
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The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to …
Emplumada
Häftad, 1981
297 kr
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Winner of the 1982 American Book AwardEmplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, …
Ruby for Grief
Häftad, 1981
297 kr
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The work of Michael Burkard has a rich interior quality different from that of any other voice in American poetry. He captures a sense of the mind revising and revealing itself, altering its perceptions.
Selected Poems, 1969-1981
Häftad, 1982
358 kr
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Shelton assembles the best of his previous work together with a selection of new poems.
Blue Like The Heavens
New and Selected Poems
Av Gary Gildner
Häftad, 1984
297 kr
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“Aliveness is Gary Gildner’s striking quality,” Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner’s previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the …
Essential Etheridge Knight
Häftad, 1986
269 kr
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Winner of the 1987 American Book Award The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country’s most prominent and liveliest poets. It brings together poems from Knight’s previously published books and a section of new poems.
Cold Comfort
Häftad, 1986
297 kr
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Cold Comfort is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.
Imaginary Lover
Häftad, 1986
297 kr
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• Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of AmericaWith The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the best poetry by …
Niobe Poems
Av Kate Daniels
Häftad, 1988
297 kr
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Kate Daniels’s central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the …
Six O'Clock Mine Report
Häftad, 1989
297 kr
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The speaker in Irene McKinney’s poems is most often alone, sitting at the side of a stream, or standing at her own chosen gravesite in the Appalachian mountains, and the meditations spoken out of this essential solitude are powerfully clear, witty, and wide-ranging in content and tone. The center …
Green Age
Häftad, 1989
297 kr
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker is that rare combination, a writer equally admired as poet and critic. The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of her writing: from the opening poem, "Fifty," funny, courageous, and defiant, to a set of birthday poems for a grown daughter; from emulations of …
Captivity
Häftad, 1989
297 kr
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What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, …
Refuge
Av Belle Waring
Häftad, 1990
297 kr
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Winner of the 1989 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry“Waring's poems forcibly avoid the workshop warp. From the opening, her language lashes. . . . Anyone would be convinced of both her originality and her toughness. . . . Waring uses tactics that women singers have known about for …
Makings of Happiness
Häftad, 1991
297 kr
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Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part …
South America Mi Hija
Häftad, 1992
358 kr
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When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, \u201cAre there any good men?\u201d South American …
Widening Spell of the Leaves
Av Larry Levis
Häftad, 1991
297 kr
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The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and …
Space Filled with Moving
Häftad, 1992
297 kr
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Previous Praise for Maggie Anderson's Cold Comfort"We are struck by the generosity of a voice that manages to bridge the gap between a personal and a world view, a balance that reveals a narrator who is of the world yet not overwhelmed by it."—Prairie Schooner
Sleeping Preacher
Häftad, 1992
297 kr
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Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.
Red Line
Av Betsy Sholl
Häftad, 1992
297 kr
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Winner of the 1991 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry
Flying Garcias
Häftad, 1993
297 kr
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\u201cI am reminded of the Argentinean writers Julio Cort\u00e1zar and Jorge Luis Borges, but with sunglasses and in California. The Flying Garcias is a sure voice and a fine book.\u201d—Alberto R\u00edos
Children Of Paradise
Häftad, 1994
297 kr
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A book of poems about “children” in the widest sense--from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love, and daily life.
School Figures
Av Cathy Song
Häftad, 1994
297 kr
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In choosing Cathy Song’s first book for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Richard Hugo said that her poems are “bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most.”In this, Song’s third book, the poems are like the school figures an ice skater etches onto the ice - …
