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Erotic Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Intended to follow on from and complement Love Poems - also part of the Everyman's Pocket Poets series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry.
GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more
Garden Poems by John Hollander
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black and white pattern on each spine * Full cloth, flexible covers * Sewn Binders * Silk Ribbon Markers and Headbands * Gold Stamping on fron ...Show more
German Romantic Poets by Charlotte Lee
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song- the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of the nineteenth century. In this collection, we see German Romantic poets confronting life's greatest mom ...Show more
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, Herbert brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved poems, from The Collar and Jordan to The Altar and Easter Wings, achieve a perfection of form and feeling an ...Show more
Hip Hops - Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller (Editor)
Category: Cook Books | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind's long and joyous (mostly) relationship with the world's most popular alcoholic bever ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
If and other Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets Ser.
'If-' is, by British readers' choice, the most popular poem in the language. This pocket-sized selection of Rudyard Kipling's verse contains not only this classic, but many of his greatest poems, in testimony to a writer who possessed a precocious gift for rhyme and a brilliant ear for language, coupled ...Show more
Improvised Dirges: New Selected Poems by A. G. Pettet
Category: No Category | Series: Bareknuckle Poets Pocket Series
"Strong, beat poetics. Buy a copy: you'll be glad you did!" ~John Tranter
James Merrill Poems by James Merrill
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his p ...Show more
Kipling: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Rudyard Kipling
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and ...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