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Blood of the Air - Poems by Ama Codjoe
Category: Poetry | Series: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Ser.
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of several found po ...Show more
Blue Pearl by Harrison Lesley
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
What does northness sound like? The music of Iceland, Greenland, the Svalbard archipelago. Songs of birds and ice and wind. In Lesley Harrison's Blue Pearl, her first collection to appear in the United States, northern landscapes come alive through an intimacy of language that forms a collective sense o ...Show more
Broken Ground by Steve Armstrong
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Borrowing from the title of his Bruce Dawe prize-winning poem, Steve Armstrong's wonderful first collection is 'a cracked and weathered prayer'. These are questing, generous poems, filled with grace and vulnerability, and reading them is like taking a walk through a magical and yet familiar landscape, a ...Show more
By Heart : 101 Poems to Remember by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber poetry
Jess' pick... (Poetry) What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language "by heart"? In his introduction, Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory syste ...Show more
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (Author) , George Savidis (Edited by) , Edmund Keeley (Translated by) , Philip Sherrard (Translated by)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern Eu ...Show more
Cadaver Dog by Luke Best
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Be ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Casey at the Bat (Visions in Poetry) by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Category: Children | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Casey at the Bat, the fourth book in the series, is more than a poem about a proud and mighty slugger who strikes out during the big game. It is a slice of ...Show more
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away--loved ones, ...Show more
Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems by James Joyce
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to captivate, intrigue, and influence readers and writers. Universally known for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), an ...Show more
Charlie Twirl by Alan Gould
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From the intrigue of his earlier poetry in fatalism and the mysteries of character, Alan Gould's interest has moved to music. In many of the poems in this book, the folk songs or the homages to Vaughan Williams, his enquiry is one of synaesthesia: What is it we see when we hear? In meditating this the p ...Show more