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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPoems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
Ben Holden · 310 pages
"A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, however, a rare and fascinating collection, will p
Good Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby · 352 pages
In 2001, Sourcebooks MediaFusion reinvigorated the way Americans experience poetry with Poetry Speaks, a book and three-CD combination featuring noted poets from Tennyson to Plath reading their own work. This remarkable anthology, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times extended list bestseller, was lauded by Publishers Weekly as having "the potential to draw more readers to poetry tha
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes · 498 pages
The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
John Lithgow · 304 pages
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to ap
The Top 500 Poems
William Harmon · 1,132 pages
The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were i
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
Illona Linthwaite · 224 pages
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman · 544 pages
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
Faubion Bowers · 96 pages
Norton Anthology of Poetry
Alexander W. Allison · 1,479 pages
Offers over 1400 poems by more than 200 poets written in English from early medieval time to the present.
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
Harold Bloom · 1,008 pages
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Hazel Felleman · 670 pages
An anthology of excellent poetry, much of which is best read aloud
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Lawrence Ferlinghetti · 306 pages
"Printer's ink is the greater explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World-the only book of his own poems that Ferlinghetti would ever publish at City Lights. Within a year, he had brought out two more vol
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Paul Hoover · 742 pages
Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets (1892)
James Baldwin
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
Good Poems
Garrison Keillor · 476 pages
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday