Overview :Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living, was that rare phenomenon a distinguis... Read More
Overview :A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fun... Read More
Overview :No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agr... Read More
Overview :In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore an... Read More
Overview :An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaim... Read More
Overview :In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The a... Read More
Overview :The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patien... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl ... Read More
Overview :Poetry slams--the Olympics of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents 10 years of poetry slams, w... Read More
Overview :An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Disco... Read More
Overview :Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic... Read More
Overview :America's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearth... Read More
Overview :A wondrously written book of literary criticism and philosophy that maps the relationship between poetry and natural history, connecting ver... Read More
Overview :Daniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poem... Read More
Overview :A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry... Read More
Overview :A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry... Read More
Overview :Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason ... Read More