Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets.
At once disparate and entangled, the voices found here are those of Chris Baron in Under the Broom Tree, Heather Eudy in Bills of Lading, Cali Linfor in A Book of Ugly Things, and Sabrina Youmans in Pacific Standard Time.
" THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER seeks to "upend this orthodoxy." Distinct but kindred, these books are like four ecologically diverse quadrants of one realm, in a Disneyworld of poetry's possibilities.
The poetic books of the Old Testament--Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon--are often called humankind's reach toward God. The other books of the Old Testament picture God's reach toward man through the redemptive story.
This is my ?rst book of poems ever written and so I am very much interested in your feedback so that I can continue to write by meeting, if not exceeding your expectations.
The Poem of the Cid (trans.), 1959. The Drunk in the Furnace, 1960. ... The First Four Books of Poems, 1975. The Compass Flower: Poems, 1977. ... The Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, trans. with J. Moussaieff Masson, 1981.
"City Lights" and “Some People" from poems by Rachel Field. ... Reprinted by permission of McGraw-HillBook Company. McIntoshandotis, Inc., for “Rhinos Purple. Hippos Green" from BREAKFast, Books & DREAMs by Michael Patrick Hearn.
In this wholly original work, a barmaid grapples with the irreconcilable tensions in her work and personal life. At work, she’s torn between taking orders and keeping order.
The Poetry of Lowell, Ammons, Merrill, and Rich Nick Halpern. I 4. Louise Glück , “ World Breaking Apart , " in Glück , The First Four Books of Poems , 145 . 5. Louise Glück , " Grandmother in the Garden , " in Glück , The First Four ...
A.F. Moritz is the author of thirteen books of poetry, numerous chapbooks and limited edition volumes.