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Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable...
66) Poems
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871, " and an index of first lines.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham. Much awaited and long needed, From the New World--a sequence of poems from Jorie Graham's prior eleven books--offers more than a retrospect of this major poet's work. This selection, including several revised and new poems, creates a startlingly fresh trajectory...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire's birth comes this stunning, landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century-"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language" (T.S. Eliot)-Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil is a gritty, often perverse, exploration of the underbelly of urban modernity. Acclaimed translator...
71) Save twilight
Author
Series
Pocket poets volume 53
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
[Second edition.].
Language
English
Description
"World renowned as one of the masters of contemporary fiction, Julio Cortazar was also a prolific poet, who in his final months in Paris, ill with leukemia, assembled what he wanted saved of his life's work in verse. This expanded edition of Save Twilight, offers a bilingual survey of Cortazar's enduring poetry ranging through his various voices, moods, and styles"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline making urgency of Claudia Rankine's Citizen to the stark pathos...
74) Collected poems
Author
Series
Library of America volume 368
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood -- that of the Maya K'iche'. Aqui? era el paraiso / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers,...
79) Dog poems
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by a variety of authors celebrating the joys of canines, from puppies to old hounds, from Chihuahuas to mongrels.
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