Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them.From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry...
Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem...
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W.W. Norton
A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller Americans' Favorite Poems.Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. This anthology concentrates...
Adultolescence
Author: Gabbie Hanna
Publisher: Atria/Keywords Press
Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry.In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children's verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
Author: R H SIN
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of his first...
Make Me Rain
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: William Morrow
One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than thirty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened, and dazzled readers. As sharp and outspoken...
Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected...
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Grove Press
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. - Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.The first new Ginsberg collection in over fifteen years, Wait Till I'm Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan. Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than...
Just Saying
Author: Rae Armantrout
Publisher: Wesleyan
In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this...
Morning Song: Poems for New Parents
Author: Susan Todd
Publisher: St. Martin's Press;...
Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding contemporary poets, this beautiful collection summons the cosmic and the comic,...
Contemporary Black American Poets...
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Profiles fourteen writers.
You Come Too: My Journey with Robert...
Author: Lesley Lee Francis
Publisher: University of Virginia...
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create...
I Know Your Kind: Poems
Author: William Brewer
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limn, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In Oceana, West Virginia, fatal overdoses of heroin have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems, William Brewer demonstrates...
She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's...
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Hyperion
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother,...
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Atria / 37 INK
Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple - "an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle) - crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice...
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse...
Author: Katharine Washburn
Publisher: W.W. Norton
The one necessary book of poetry for every home and library. This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many worlds of poetry,...
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again...
Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and each new phase of our journey.That’s why poetry is dangerous....
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears?The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare...
Archeophonics
Author: Peter Gizzi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections...
Prelude to Bruise
Author: Saeed Jones
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Praise for Saeed Jones:"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed." -- FlavorWire"This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." -- ElevenEleven"I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good...
