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Include books by the same authorNative Guard
Natasha Trethewey · 57 pages
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey's elegiac *Native Guard* is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze a
Our Andromeda
Brenda Shaughnessy · 131 pages
Collects the author's poems about a parallel existence in the Andromeda galaxy in which people can relive their lives, correcting mistakes and avoiding pain.
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
Mayakovsky's Revolver
Matthew Dickman · 112 pages
Matthew has been a rising star in American poetry. At the center of Mayakovsky's Revolver is the suicide of Dickman's older brother. But the book is also an exploration of love: how to love the unknown and how to celebrate life despite grief. These are elegies and love poems, verses about and for the body of the beloved. This book finds the connection between grief and joy, comfort and rage, and c
Thirst
Mary Oliver · 79 pages
In this collection of 43 new poems the author grapples with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years. She strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not it end. She also chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
Human Chain
Seamus Heaney · 96 pages
"Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidaritiesb︣etween husband and wife, child and parent, then and nowi︣nside an intently remembered present: the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versio
Fire to Fire
Mark Doty · 336 pages
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wroug
Black Aperture
Matt Rasmussen · 64 pages
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms
Love, an Index
Rebecca Lindenberg · 96 pages
"A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg's billowing, "I contain multitudes" style lays bare the poet's sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and na
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous · 80 pages
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves
The Princess Saves Herself in this One
Amanda Lovelace · 177 pages
"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration"--Publisher's website.
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.
Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins · 128 pages
In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Jane Kenyon · 230 pages
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work of poetry by one of our most cherished poets. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books - From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance - this collection was selected and arranged by Kenyon shortly before her death in April 1995. This extensive collection reveals a scrup