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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIn Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges · 142 pages
Let Them Eat Chaos
Kate Tempest · 75 pages
"Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lo
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.
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Alejandra Pizarnik · 271 pages
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
Frank Stanford · 542 pages
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.
Maldoror and the Complete Works
Comte de Lautreamont · 352 pages
The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje · 106 pages
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of hi
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 104 pages
The Lays of Beleriand
J.R.R. Tolkien · 393 pages
This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
Joyce Sidman · 32 pages
In spring red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. In winter green waits in the hearts of trees, feeling the earth turn. Color comes alive in this whimsical, innovative book. Blue dances on summer lakes, green drips from spring leaves, black wafts mysteriously through autumn evenings. Together, an award-winning poet and a brilliant painter inspire u
Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 223 pages
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft m
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
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Robert Frost · 130 pages
"A deluxe edition of Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem alo
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.