W.S. Merwin paints ordinary scenes and memories with various shades of light and dark, and thus allows us to appreciate angles and aspects that were previously hidden. Merwin's choice to hide himself, and his structure, in this collection is intriguing. In the first portion of the book, he simply al... Read more

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The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent 'Death Tractates, ' offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter. ... Read more

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In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with s... Read more

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In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the... Read more

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The metaphysical pondering of the poems in this eighth collection of Dennis's verse eventually finds its way into the material world, where, for instance, the poet contemplates varnishing his bookshelves. ... Read more

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Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappe... Read more

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A collection of bittersweet love poems reflects the author's personal experiences. ... Read more

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Brief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasons. ... Read more

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A capstone to Nemerov's career of nearly thirty years, showing the expansion and increasing richness of his voice and vision and the sharpening of his perception and craft. ... Read more

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This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures From Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music and Journey To Love, original... Read more

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The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,and Mat... Read more

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The poet's eleventh volume of poetry plumbs the mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the endurance of the mind and body in the face of diminishment. ... Read more

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John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing exp... Read more

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Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half... Read more

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In his eighth book of poems, Williams continues to develop the possibilities of the long line for which he is so well known, but he includes some short lines here as well, recalling the work of his early books. The poems here often investigate consciousness--both in the psychological sense of the wo... Read more

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The title of Robert Hass's Pulitzer-Prize winning collection evokes carpentry and craft, and his poetry leaves little doubt about his masterful skills as a handler and shaper of language. He has always excelled at making ideas tangible with words, though he has usually restricted his arena to the pe... Read more

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This collection features selections from the remarkable 50-year career of poet Ruth Stone, and it brilliantly showcases the expansive trajectory of her work. While Stone has found success relatively late in her career, spawned by her 2002 National Book Award Winner IN THE NEXT GALAXY, this anthology... Read more

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A first collection of lyrics by the Bollingen Prize-winning author of Star Dust evaluates the role of imminent mortality in forcing the self to question the relation between actual life and the promise of transformation, in a volume that explores such subjects as Marilyn Monroe, the ballet Giselle, ... Read more

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