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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorExtracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Alejandra Pizarnik · 271 pages
Collected Poems
W.H. Auden · 976 pages
This is a reprint of the original 1976 edition, with corrections made by The Estate of W.H. Auden.
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins · 171 pages
Offers a collection of witty, emotional, and direct poems by the popular and critically acclaimed poet, including selections from his four previous collections and new works such as "Man Listening to a Disc," about headphones.
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds · 80 pages
Olds' second collection is a harrowing and affectionate cycle of poems honoring the dead and celebrating the living. She examines the indifferent and disturbed family members who shaped her own life and her siblings, tempers her anger with affection and discovers in the ordinary the unique, and in the unique the universal. These poems, which revolve around a brutalized childhood, include such dark
Poems New and Collected
Wislawa Szymborska · 296 pages
The New Testament
Jericho Brown · 80 pages
To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius' Claudia RankineJericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important new voices in US poetry.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda · 68 pages
Synopsis: First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the ge
The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Crush
Richard Siken · 80 pages
Richard Siken's *Crush*, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, comp
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 770 pages
The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Alice Oswald · 84 pages
"[An] original new poem which is also a translation of Homer's Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist"--Jacket.
Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
Richard Brautigan · 127 pages
" ... delicate, full of insight and the ability to see and describe the possibilities and complications of the world in a lucid and totally original way ..."
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 104 pages
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne Carson · 153 pages
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice--29 "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartb
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 50 pages
A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance literature