Great first book by important poet. Required reading.

With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland—its people, history, and landscape—and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North , the Irish...

A new collection of poems that pays tribute to the lifeworks of Midwestern poet Thomas McGrath.

Gibbons, Reginald

The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns.The poet has faith in economy and trusts in images to transfer knowledge that speech...

In his seventh book of verse, Reginald Gibbons ponders human consciousness and memory, the blessedness of human love, and the force and fury of human destructiveness. By turns intimate, imaginatively historical, and deeply engaged in the paradoxes of...

Longing describes it all: the yearning for a "cradle of molten moonlight" to underpin the vicissitudes of daily life as we seek to watch "silken embers of sun topaz the sky." In lyrical free verse and, at times, formal verse, Judith Alexander Brice...

A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death...

The prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered world. With his dazzling ability to set words spinning, Amit Majmudar brings us poems that sharpen both wit and knives as he examines our "life in solitary."Equally engaged with human...

Poetry. "A large masterpiece consisting of small poems... keeps reverberating like a percussion player who still hears the beat."—Hal Sirowitz."So very, and beautifully, human."—Katie Ford"Spare language, dry wit, and unnerving honesty."—Ada Limón

When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal...

Following Spring Comes to Chicago--winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Prize--Campbell McGrath's newest collection goes on the road to chart a poetics of place and everyday experience. Set in diverse and finely observed landscapes from Brazil to...

Marking the year of his ninetieth birthday, one of the masters of contemporary poetry presents his ninth collection. Stanley Kunitz, recipient of both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes, here gathers a rich selection of his work, including new poems...

This collection deals with the challenges, dilemmas, joys, and struggles of living in a world that we often don't want to live in, but don't want to die in either. These poems explore the wonders of family, the horrors of war, racism, and prejudice...

In screenwriting, a flashcut switches scenes instantaneously, with no time for fade-ins or fade-outs. In FLASHCUTS OUT OF CHAOS, Charles W. Brice poetically encounters the tumultuous era of the fifties to the present. Race relations, Conscientious...

Volume 1: 478 p., plate, facsimiles, music example. Volume 2: 386 p., facsimiles. Volume 3: 494 p., plates, facsimiles, music example. Volume 4: 430 p., facsimiles. Volume 5: 374 p.

Baron Wormser, a master of the persona poem, is well known for his empathic exploration of possible lives. This fifth collection of poetry by this "fiction writer in a poet's body," includes an examination of his own life as well.Mulroney & Others...

Intense memories, pithy observations, and moments of lyric grace-the happy and sad accidents of experience-take sharp form in the lines of Charles W. Brice's new collection.