Books written by Kay Ryan

  • Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
    Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

    The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished poets, the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States.

  • The Best of it: New and Selected Poems
    The Best of it: New and Selected Poems

    Presents a selection of more than two hundred poems from his previous works along with a collection of new poems.

  • The Niagara River
    The Niagara River

    ... Desert Reservoirs; Theft; Weak Forces, Zyzzyva: Ideal Audience “Home to Roost” also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005 (Scribners, 2005). “Chinese Foot Chart” was reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XXIX (Pushcart Press, 2005).

  • The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
    The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

    Snake. Charm. Oh for even a fingerling snake, a three-inch inspiration full of genetic information about length, the making of venom, and the start of muscles later on used for compression. A snake, say, in a Moorish pattern, abstract, ...

  • Poetry at the Edge: Five California Poets

    Publication 233 from The Book Club of California.

  • The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed
    The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed

    The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed

  • Say Uncle
    Say Uncle

    Those poets, though, wrote many kinds of poems: Ryan, in this volume, writes just one kind. It is, however, a kind worth looking out for—well crafted, understated, funny and smart.” —Publishers Weekly