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Leonard Cohen - Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of ...Show more
Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric ...Show more
Love Letters by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
This is a collection of some of the greatest love letters of all time, from 200 of the world's most articulate lovers. Love letters both historic and fictional, tragic and comic; love letters written by both poets and princes; and each one enchanting.
Love Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington; World Collect Staff
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
"It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a univers ...Show more
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Love Speaks Its Name - Gay and Lesbian Love Poems by J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garc a Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merril ...Show more
Lullabies and Poems for Children by D. Secker-Larson
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library pocket poets
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pond ...Show more
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration wit ...Show more
Mind Breaths - Poems, 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade.Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Nob ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
Music's Spell - Poems about Music and Musicians by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Gift | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of W ...Show more