A collection of narrative and short lyrical works by the poet favored by Queen Victoria includes "The Lady of Shalott," extracts from "Idylls of the King," and the complete text of "Ulysses." 10,000 first printing.
It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds.
"A treasury of favorite poems from the great poets."--From source other than the Library of Congress
I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York.
Inspired by the love and marriage to his beloved wife of 59 years, Bonnie, Roland Peaslee, has recorded a lifetime of memories in this wonderful book of poetry.
In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson, and Moore, to a variety of poets making poems today.
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we ...
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help ...
" With excursions into the surreal, myth is made, lived or remade, as in “Philomela,” “Pegasus” and “The Feral Child.” This is an exquisite debut collection that rewards the mind and senses with its formal impetus and deft ...
So you fixate on the fantasy of an idealized love described so beautifully in Pablo Neruda's “Night on the Island. ... of truth: Maybe you did live that passionate night or two with someone you thought you'd be connected to forever—but ...