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The Waste Land
and Other Poems
by T. S. Eliot, Frank Kermode, Tom Thomas
This volume includes the title poem as well as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” and other poems from Eliot’s early and middle work. “Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English” (Edmund Wilson).
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Poems for the Millenium: Book 2
Poems for the Millennium, Volume 2
The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, From Postwar to Millennium
by Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris
anthology: the matrix of world poetry 1945 & after
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Complete Poems and Plays : 1909-1950
by T. S. Eliot
This omnibus collection includes all of the authorÂ’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old PossumÂ’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.
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The Palm at the End of the Mind
by Wallace Stevens
A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier Collected Works .
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Omeros
by Derek Walcott
A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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Poems
by Wilfred Owen, Jon Stallworthy
Derived from Jon Stallworthy's two-volume Complete Poems and Fragments (1983)—described as a "triumph" ( Times Literary Supplement ) and "a definitive text" ( Los Angeles Times )—this is the finest single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War. Of all the work bequeathed by to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its... (more)
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Tiepolo's Hound
by Derek Walcott
From the Nobel laureate, a "resplently luminous" (Paul Gray, Time ) book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart.Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,paused on a step of this couplet, I have never foundits image again, a hound in astounding light.Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves... (more)
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Blessing the Boats
New and Selected Poems, 1988–2000
by Lucille Clifton
Clifton's poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: "It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity." Her keen sense of rhythm, of the sound, tone, and texture of words, is delightful, a rare find in this day and age. The language is crystal... (more)
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The Complete Poems includes the books North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III, as well as previously uncollected poems, translations and... (more)
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The Husbands: An Account of Books 3 and 4 of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue
If Homer composed the Iliad for ancient oral performance, Logue, the noted British poet, actor, and screenwriter, has adapted it for modern cinematic performance. The Husbands joins War Music (Farrar, 1987) and Kings (Farrar, 1991) as companions to Logue's poetic retelling of the Iliad. Focusing on the figure of Helen, who has two husbands in Paris and Menelaus, Logue's treatment is not literal, drawing on... (more)
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Kings: An Account of Books One and Two of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue
The second installment in Logue's epic remake of the Iliad, after War Music , which told the story of Books One through Four. Using the language and props of our modernity with cinematic speed and haunting lyric power, Logue gives a close-up view of war unlike anything else in recent poetry.
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The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
by Adam Kirsch
A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by “a poetry critic of the very first order” ( New York Times ). Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic , The New Yorker , and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—“one of the most promising young poet-critics in America” ( Los Angeles Times... (more)
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The Figured Wheel
New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
by Robert Pinsky
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate. Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Both the transformation of the familiar and the uttering of what has been hitherto... (more)
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All Day Permanent Red
by Christopher Logue
The first clash of the armies in Logue’s “Heroic . . . brilliant” version of Homer’s Iliad ( The New York Times Book Review ) Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face— Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: “Kill! Kill for me! Better to die than live without killing!” Who says prayer does no good? Christopher... (more)
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Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
One of America’s most celebrated poets—and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923—Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poet’s unique spirit in works like Renascence and Other Poems , A Few Figs from This-tles , and Second April , as well... (more)
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War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue
In his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's Iliad , Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy. Compulsively readable, Logue's poetry flies off the page, and his compelling descriptions of the horrors of war have a surreal, dreamlike quality that has been compared to the... (more)