Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry by Paul Celan
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Category: Poetry
Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. "Breathturn into Timestead: ""The" "Collected Later Poetry "gathers ...Show more
Selected Poems 1968-2014 by Paul Muldoon
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Category: Poetry
Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet thi ...Show more
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by e. e. cummings; George James Firmage; Stephen Dunn (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry
Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of som ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
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Category: Poetry
Simon Armitage's acclaimed version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This new work is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow ...Show more
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
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Category: Poetry
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follo ...Show more
Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence
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Category: Poetry
Headwaters marries an extraordinary gift for observation of the natural world and an exquisiteappreciation of human creatureliness with marvellous linguistic precision to create a singular, life-affirming music. John Burnside Anthony Lawrence’s stature as one of Australia’s leading poets was recognise ...Show more
Collected Poems of Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work ""And I who was walking""with the earth at my waist, ""saw two snowy eagles""and a naked girl.""The one was the other""and the girl was neither.""--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garcia Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-cent ...Show more
Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
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Category: Poetry
"Description: No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore."Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not exp ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more