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Author
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
x, 61 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy Collins strikes at the deepest concerns of the human heart and mind. His metaphysical wit and cosmic puzzlement, expressed always in a clean, direct, unpretentious idiom, will touch every reader who is fascinated by the play of a truly original imagination and a disarming way of seeing the world.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work, sharing societal ideals and epiphanies about life that still resonate with readers today. "--...
Author
Publisher
DreamHaven Books
Pub. Date
℗♭1993
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A miscellany of fiction, humour, non-fiction, poetry, and artwork, Angels & visitations journeys from science fiction and fantasy shorts to detective stories and meticulously-researched literary works.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder.” The two hundred poems in Ryan’s The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our time.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 106 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
120 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United...
19) A small porch: Sabbath poems 2014 and 2015 together with The presence of nature in the natural world
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks arranged themselves into poems and each year since he has completed a sequence dated by the year of its composition. Many of these poems are drawn from the view from a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection,...
20) Naked for tea
Author
Publisher
Able Muse Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 114 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Naked for Tea, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchingly real, as they explore the ways in which our own brokenness can open us to new possibilities in a beautifully imperfect world. Naked for Tea proves that poems that are disarmingly witty on the surface can have surprising depths of wisdom. This is a collection...
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