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Crossing the Water (PB) by Sylvia Plath
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Dailies & Rushes by Kingsolving Susan
Category: Poetry | Series: Grove Press Poetry Ser.
"The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make many women think this book was written just for them." -- Susan Cheever "Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day's figures and memory's patte ...Show more
Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art & Poetry
Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome presents a new edition of Dance Me to the End of Love featuring a revised design. Cohen's song is a lyrical ...Show more
Dark Convicts by Judy Johnson
Category: Literature | Series: Uwap Poetry
It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears' lives, both before tra ...Show more
Dart by Alice Oswald
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and i ...Show more
Dear Ms. Schubert - Poems by Ewa Lipska by Ewa Lipska; Robin Davidson (Translator); Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poems Ewa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first compl ...Show more
Dirty Poem by Ferreira Gullar
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author's political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Sc ...Show more
Divine Comedy by John Kinsella
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre. The poet-narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, ...Show more
Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas, Walford Davies (Editor);
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman Poetry Ser.
Covering the whole range of Dylan Thomas s writingboth poetry and proseWalford Davies s "Dylan Thomas "is an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of this major and dynamic poet. Davies analyzes Thomas and his work in light of his Welsh background, while simultaneously illustrating Thomas s w ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Poetry for Young People (Hardcover)
Well-known for his spine-tingling, spooky stories, Edgar Allan Poe was also a master at writing haunting, deliciously macabre poems. Children will enjoy 13 of his verses--including two of Poe's most famous, "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"--along with excerpts from eight of his most popular tales, such as ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry for Young People) by .
Category: Classics | Series: Poetry for Young People
If you think that poetry has to be sweet and romantic, or at least serene, think again. Step into the dark world of Edgar Allan Poe. Well known for his spine-tingling, spooky stories that are even more chilling than today's horror films, Poe also wrote poems that expressed the shadowy regions of his min ...Show more