Poetry Book List · 
“Berlin Zoo” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Equinox” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Laundromat” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Mother Carey’s Hen” · David Yezzi, Azores
“Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Unto Temptation” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“The Last Cigarette Girl” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Niagara Falls Postcard” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Metaphors at Low Tide” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Inheritance,” “Hoarding,” “Ska Memory” · Kwame Dawes, Midland
“The Snow Leopard” · Jason Gray, Photographing Eden
“Lake De Noon” · Lee Gerlach, Selected Poems
“At the San Francisco Airport” · R. L. Barth (ed.), The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
“The Godless Sky,” “Razing the Woodlot,” “The Blighted Tree” · Timothy Murphy, Set the Ploughshare Deep
“The Future Perfect” · Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X
“Orpheus Watches His Daughter Blow Out Candles” and “Orpheus Fixes Himself a Cup of Tea” · James Cummins, Then & Now
“Starr Farm Beach” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Gym Nights” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Faustina” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Under $6 a Bottle” · Dick Davis, A Trick of Sunlight
“Shadows,” “A Monorhyme for the Shower,” “Haydn and Hokusai” · Dick Davis, Belonging
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Azores
Poems
By David Yezzi
Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.…
Dear Regime
Letters to the Islamic Republic
In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.…
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All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.…
Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986
This second volume of James Schevill's collected poems is a companion to his remarkable ongoing sequence of poems, The American Fantasies, published by Swallow in 1983. This collection extends the scope of the poet's concern with American power and influences to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.…
American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978
Critical essays provide sources for stimulating new thoughts and perspectives on poetry. Finding such essays on specific poems can be a frustrating experience for the scholar or the student. American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism, 1925–1978 guides the researcher quickly to relevant sources of critical writing.…
American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990
This reference volume is a supplement to Alexander’s earlier work covering the years 1928–1978. Its purpose is to provide access to articles, parts of articles, and parts of books of criticism on British and American poets.…
American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981
In this collection, Schevill brings together a series of poems that he has been working on since his first book was published in 1947. Diverse characters, both real and imaginary, reveal fantasies of American life and history.…
And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems
By Lucien Stryk
Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry.Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books published since then, a sampling of his renowned translations of haiku, and a generous number of previously unpublished new poems, this latest collection by poet and translator Lucien Stryk is evidence of the popular and critical acclaim for an important contributor to twentieth-century letters.…
The Armillary Sphere
Poems
By Ann Hudson
Taking the warp of dream, sometimes nightmare, and weaving it with the ordinary world, the poems of The Armillary Sphere, Ann Hudson's award-winning debut collection, do not simplify the mystery but deepen it.…
Awakening
By Lucien Stryk
The sharpness of Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things—frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, an argument flailing in the distance, a neighbor's fuss over his lawn—set down in a language that is at once direct and powerful.…
Azores
Poems
By David Yezzi
Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.…
Battle of Kosovo
By John Matthias and Vladeta Vuckovic
The Battle of Kosovo cycle of heroic ballads is generally considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry. Commemorating the Serbian Empire’s defeat at the hands of the Turks in the late fourteenth century, these poems and fragments have been known for centuries in Eastern Europe.…
Belonging
Poems
By Dick Davis
There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds.…
Beltane at Aphelion
Longer Poems
Beltane at Aphelion collects all of John Matthias's longer poems and is published simultaneously with Swimming at Midnight, which collects his shorter poems. The volume includes his exuberant experiments from the 1960s, Poem in Three Parts and Bucyrus, followed by The Stefan Bathory & Mihail Lermontov Poems, his comedic diptych from the 1970s set on a Polish and a Russian ocean liner, and by Northern Summer, his meditation on history and language set in Scotland.…
Beyond the Archipelago
Selected Poems
A collections of 70 poems from one of Malaya’s leading poets, that depict longing, loneliness, modernization, and insights in Malaysian culture.
Blank Verse
A Guide to Its History and Use
Blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter—is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others.…
Cage of Fireflies
Modern Japanese Haiku
By Lucien Stryk
Haiku at its best is an art in which the poet takes a natural, most ordinary event, and without fuss, ornament or inflated words makes of it a rare moment—sparely rendered, crystallized into a microcosm which reveals transcendent unity.…
Collected Poems 1953–1983
By Lucien Stryk
Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things—frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor’s fuss over his lawn—set into language that is at once direct and powerful.…
Collected Poems E. L. Mayo
By E. L. Mayo
E. L. Mayo was a quiet poet who embraced obscurity almost as a condition for his intellectual freedom. Still, a few discerning critics noticed. David Daiches has said that “Mayo’s poems … pretend to be simple prose–like utterances, whereas in fact the best of them contain an echoing poetic meaning which begins to relase itself a split second after we have read the words.…
The Complete American Fantasies
“Fantasies to me, as I wrote in an earlier 1983 edition of American Fantasies, are the active, visionary links between reality and imagination as my characters pursue their destinies. Although we pretend to be a pragmatic, materialistic country, our fantasies, once suppressed by tradition, peer increasingly through the media into our private and public behavior.…
The Complete Poetry of Michelangelo
Edited by Sidney Alexander
Although Michelangelo’s work has been applauded from the earliest years of his long and productive career, he has been better known for his sculpture, painting, drawing, and architecture than for his poetry.…
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