Poems (1962-1997)

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 193351776X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems (1962-1997) by : Robert Lax

Download or read book Poems (1962-1997) written by Robert Lax and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.

Poems 1962-2012

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875623
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems 1962-2012 by : Louise Glück

Download or read book Poems 1962-2012 written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape—Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain—persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. From the outset ("Come here / Come here, little one"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms." From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful? To read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure.

New And Selected Poems

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547561598
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis New And Selected Poems by : Michael Ryan

Download or read book New And Selected Poems written by Michael Ryan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane.” – Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World Michael Ryan’s first collection in fifteen years shows the acclaimed poet at the height of his powers. Highlighting the wit and passion displayed throughout his career, Ryan’s latest work comprises fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes and thirty-one new poems. In both dramatic lyrics and complex narratives, Ryan renders the world with startling clarity, freshness, and intimacy. New and Selected Poems is filled with the stuff of everyday life, and as the New York Times Book Review said, it “include[s] pain and fear but also surprise, joy, laughter, everything human.” "New and Selected Poems reminds us how much we have relied on this poet to forge a path for us in plain style.” – Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Ryan's poems have always felt as if they neded to be written. They seem to exist because of some pressure to respond, not because of a facility for language alone. This is a rare quality among poets. The commitment to it is as hard-won, and real, as any you are likely to find in poetry." – David Rivard, American Poetry Review Michael Ryan is the author of many acclaimed books, including three previous volumes of poetry. Among the honors for his work are the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Ryan is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of California at Irvine.

Love Had a Compass

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Love Had a Compass by : Robert Lax

Download or read book Love Had a Compass written by Robert Lax and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words." -Richard Kostelanetz, New York Times Book Review Every generation of poets seems to harbor its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance come to light after his talent has already been achieved and exercised. The same drama of obscurity and nuance that attended the discovery of Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens is suggested by the career of Robert Lax. An expatriate American whose work to date — more than forty books — has been published mostly in Europe, this 85-year-old poet built a following in the U.S. among figures as widespread as Mark Van Doren, e. e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra. The works in Love Had a Compass represent every stage of Lax's development as a poet, from his early years in the 1940s as a staff writer for The New Yorker to his present life on the Greek Island of Patmos. An inveterate wanderer, Lax's own sense of himself as both exile and pilgrim is carefully evoked in his prose journals and informs the pages of the Marseille Diaries, published here for the first time. Together with the poems, they provide the best portrait available to date of one of the most striking and original poets of our age.

Emerald Ice

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780876857441
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Emerald Ice by : Diane Wakoski

Download or read book Emerald Ice written by Diane Wakoski and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s." From Amazon.

The Waste Land and Other Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9780982237649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis The Waste Land and Other Poems by : John Beer

Download or read book The Waste Land and Other Poems written by John Beer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. John Beer's first collection, THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS, employs the wit of a philosopher and the ear of a poet to stage ways of reading that are political, personal, and theoretical. The speaker of these poems also brings humor to the dissecting table, to prod the legacies of great works of the imagination while balancing irony and affection.

Time and Materials

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061754226
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Time and Materials by : Robert Hass

Download or read book Time and Materials written by Robert Hass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and, as in his other books, domestic life and the conversation between men and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence of memory and of time. The works here look at paintings, at Gerhard Richter as well as Vermeer, and pay tribute to his particular literary masters, friend Czeslaw Milosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses of a surpris­ingly green and vibrant twenty-first-century Berlin; of the demilitarized zone between the Koreas; of a Bangkok night, a Mexican desert, and an early summer morning in Paris, all brought into a vivid present and with a passionate meditation on what it is and has been to be alive. "It has always been Mr. Hass's aim," the New York Times Book Review wrote, "to get the whole man, head and heart and hands and every­thing else, into his poetry." Every new volume by Robert Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful collection is no exception.

Meadowlands

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063117592
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis Meadowlands by : Louise Gluck

Download or read book Meadowlands written by Louise Gluck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of The Odyssey: the "unanswerable/affliction of the human heart: how to divide/the world's beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves."

The Wild Iris

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063117649
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wild Iris by : Louise Gluck

Download or read book The Wild Iris written by Louise Gluck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Pulitzer Prize From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

33 Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis 33 Poems by : Robert Lax

Download or read book 33 Poems written by Robert Lax and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Wanted to Write a Poem

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811207072
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis I Wanted to Write a Poem by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book I Wanted to Write a Poem written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WCW, I Wanted to Write a Poem. Williams discusses the procedure of poetry.

Collected Poems

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385352514
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Collected Poems by : Mark Strand

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of all of the poet Mark Strand's previously published poems"--

A Village Life

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875631
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis A Village Life by : Louise Glück

Download or read book A Village Life written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees— The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. —from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines—expansive, fluent, and full—manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

Yes, Mrs. Williams

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811208321
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Yes, Mrs. Williams by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book Yes, Mrs. Williams written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished American poet, William Carlos Williams, portrays the life, thoughts, and character of his mother through recreations of her conversations.

Faithful and Virtuous Night

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875461
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Faithful and Virtuous Night by : Louise Glück

Download or read book Faithful and Virtuous Night written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224597
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1991-09-17 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—." So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212830
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."