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Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Poems of Gratitude by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Poems of Gratitude is a unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many secular and spiritual forms. For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected h ...Show more
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poe ...Show more
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert ...Show more
Poems of Rome by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader ...Show more
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, ...Show more
Poems of the Sea by J.D. McClatchy
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind
Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
"Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of li ...Show more
Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns ...Show more
Prayers and Meditations by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical Hours of the Chruch: Matins, Prime, Tierce, Sext, Nones, Vespers and Compline. Each section gathers poems an ...Show more
Revolutionary Letters: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition - Pocket Poets Series No. 27 by Diane di Prima
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began wr ...Show more
Rimbaud: Poems by Rimbaud A
Category: Poetry | 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. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first line ...Show more