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August Kleinzahler
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet captures the essence of the West's greatest music in verse, from Whitney Houston to Mahler"--
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This is a book of jazzy, edgy, adventuresome poems from the author of Earthquake Weather and Like Cities, Like Storms. Ever aware, ever vivid, ever focused, Kleinzahler’s are some of…
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Kleinzahler is the edgy trickster of the city’s inner and outer weather, its tiny narratives and its refusals to tell a story, all overheard in mysterious verbal close-up. As the…
Presents poetry that is concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other.
Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist.
This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchinson and Brent MacKay.
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The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘poetry star’ (New York Times) presents his first collection of poetry since 2013’s The Hotel Oneira.
Travel - actual and imaginary - remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds ‘This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid…
Readers are taken on a wild journey by from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. These individual pieces…
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1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In this powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric…
August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise, wise, and sometimes madcap poems that are grounded in the wide array of places, people, and most especially voices he has…
August Kleinzahler’s new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: They have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice…
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A collection of August Kleinzahler’s best poems, divided - like his life - between New Jersey and San Francisco.
Piotr Sommer
Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. Yet a closer look at the language he uses, with all its ironic inflections and subtle…
Thom Gunn
First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000). In…
This selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.
The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.
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The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry
David Liittschwager
Features photographs that take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around.
