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 :This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articul... 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
Overview :The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our timeThis labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first pub... 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 :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 :Poetry slams--the Olympics of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents 10 years of poetry slams, w... Read More
Overview :To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editi... Read More
Overview :Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects," "Food," and "Rooms." While th... Read More
Overview :A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all lev... 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 :A wondrously written book of literary criticism and philosophy that maps the relationship between poetry and natural history, connecting ver... 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 :The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different t... Read More
Overview :The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years. Emily Dickinson was... 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 :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 :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