Poetry Books


Before Our Eyes	Selected Poems Best Price: $5.85 If you want to feel less alone in the real world of honest feelings, if you want to get in touch...	Repair: Poems Best Price: $2.59 C.K. Williams poems wound us to heal us. They dig deep into the psyche, revealing our intimate...	Begin Again: Collected Poems Best Price: $4.00 The poetry in this book is a gift. I borrowed this book from the library, but it is now on my...	Wideawake Field: Poems Best Price: $2.95 The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow,...



Ooga-Booga: Poems Best Price: $7.89 "The best American poet writing today"* "The title itself--a...	Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell Best Price: $7.53 Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that ?you ha[ve] always been my...	Heavenly Questions: Poems Best Price: $7.03 Heavenly Questions , the first new collection of poems from Gjertrud Schnackenberg since her...	Naked and Fiery Forms: Modern American Poetry by Women : A New Tradition	Ten Commandments Best Price: $4.92 First, I want to mention how I stumbled on this book. With luck I did stumble on it, too. I was...



Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402 Best Price: $49.99 Gracie Graves is an elementary school teacher with, "little silver curls, fourteen boys and...	A Song I Sang to You Best Price: $64.42 An illustrated collection of more than sixty poems drawn from the earlier works of this American...	Billy Sunday And Other Poems Best Price: $2.90 While most of us may be familiar with Carl Sandburg the biographer, Sandburg the historian,...	The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Best Price: $25.00 The editors of this volume have done an exceptional job of collecting and arranging a wide...	Poems Twice Told Best Price: $12.37 This volume brings together two collections - one well known but unavailable for some time, the...

The Poetry This comprehensive and authoritative edition of Robert Frost's poetry brings together the...	The Restorers (Phoenix Poets) Best Price: $12.47 The poems in this, W. S. Di Piero's fifth collection of poetry, are animated by an ancient...	Among the Monarchs (Phoenix Poets) Best Price: $16.58 The remarkable feature of this set of short poems is the feeling that you can see the hand of...	Among the Monarchs (Phoenix Poets) Best Price: $37.47 In poems of haunting lyricism, and in a voice wholly unlike any other American poet, Christine...	Hollywood & God (Phoenix Poets) Best Price: $17.41 I like the title, I like the poems, I like the prose. "The Lord gave Elvis to the world as...

Mixed Company (Phoenix Poets) Best Price: $3.50 Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of...	American War Poetry: An Anthology Best Price: $23.50 There are many good ways to try to understand humanity's dark impulse to slaughter each...	Charles Olson's Maximus	Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition Best Price: $44.16 Edgar Lee Master is a master at poetry! I liked reading about the people in this town, it was...	THE WAYS WE TOUCH: POEMS (Illinois Poetry) Best Price: $15.20 When I heard Miller Williams read his poetry earlier this year, he started out his reading in a...

Good Morning and Good Night (Illinois Poetry) Best Price: $75.61 By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's...	The Dig and Hotel Fiesta (Illinois Poetry Series) Best Price: $18.00 It's always interesting when people either love or hate something, where there's no...	Blackbird and Wolf: Poems Best Price: $3.44 Any new book by Henri Cole is cause for celebration, and no one who cares about contemporary...	Capacity: Poems Best Price: $3.00 Prize winning author James McMichael returns with a book after many years of silence, spent...	Geography III Geography III , Bishop's final book of poems, first appaered in 1976. It contains such...

Same Life: Poems Best Price: $4.00 I have to confess that my favorite type of poetry is narrative poetry, dense on the page and...	Life on Earth: Poems Best Price: $12.29 The second book of an extravagant work-in-progress What's Joel Got to do but let the...	Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children Best Price: $2.93 This book is a beautiful introduction to Nikki Giovanni's childrens' poetry. Each piece,...	A Part of Speech Best Price: $6.55 There are approximately 150 pages of poems written by Russian born winner of the Nobel Prize for...	Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir Best Price: $42.59 The book is out of print so you'll have to get it from a library. Was recently reviewed in...

Collected Poems Best Price: $21.12 I'm shocked that no one else has posted a review of this book. If you care at all about...	The Poems of Marianne Moore Best Price: $23.00 Every Marianne Moore fan needs this book, and even the casual reader will benefit from all the...	Spoon River Anthology (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 There is no Spoon River, IL. Check your map. Several towns argue that they stake their claim in...	Doveglion: Collected Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.99 Few poets have impressed me, yet this one--Jose Garcia Villa--is, without doubt, the most...	Backwards Days (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $10.00 All of Stuart Dischell's books are wonderful, and this might be the best. It's a...

Strange Flesh (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $3.88 A new collection from a poet acclaimed for his immaculate craft and impressive range William...	Or to Begin Again (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $0.01 Lauterbach's piercing intelligence--full of dry wit, deft insight and patience in...	The History of Forgetting (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $2.57 Oh yes, I'm a Lawrence Raab fan. This book, The History of Forgetting is a most stunning...	Callings (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $5.98 Carl Dennis is an American Horace. He has a wonderfully wise poetic voice and in this latest...	Jackstraws: Poems Best Price: $4.44 For the first time my friend Charlie is beginning to get a few negative reviews. I'm here to...

The Book of American Negro Poetry, A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee...	Renunciation : Poems (The National Poetry Series) Best Price: $19.00 Corey Marks's work provides great aestetic and intellectual pleasure. The deceptive clarity...	Spring (National Poetry Series) Best Price: $8.95 2009 Massachusetts Book Awards Winner Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal...	Immortal Sofa (Illinois Poetry Series) Best Price: $10.00 In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the...	Darwin's Ark: Poems Best Price: $114.38

Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Jewish Literature and Culture) Best Price: $8.99 In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction...	Darwin's Ark Best Price: $10.21 In celebration of Charles Darwin's bicentennial and the 150th anniversary of the publication...	H. D.: The Career of That Struggle (Key Women Writers) Best Price: $32.00 This volume fills a real gap in H. D. scholarship. It is situated at the crossroads of...	The Lives of the Saints (The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) Best Price: $24.88 This is a beautifully written book that intertwines science, life and poetry. Suzanne seems to...	The Corpse Flower: New And Selected Poems (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) Best Price: $7.78 "The Corpse Flower" brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning...

No Starling: Poems (Pacific Northwest Poetry) Best Price: $20.95 Award-winning poet Nance Van Winckel presents No Starling, a brief yet evocative selection of...	The Crooked Inheritance: Poems Best Price: $11.95 An ?exquisite . . . spot on? ( The Hudson Review ) collection of poems from one of our...	Black Lab Best Price: $8.88 perhaps because he taught English, poetry and prose, at Oberlin for so long, and has translated...	The Changing Light at Sandover Best Price: $18.36 A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill?s most famous and celebrated work.	Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History

Selected & New Poems Best Price: $8.50	In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Best Price: $4.75 Kim Barnes seems to be making a career of writing memoirs -- two before she's turned forty. ...	The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets Best Price: $6.00 "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big...	There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1962-1978 Ondaatje, Michael. There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to do: (poems 1963-78)....	From the Iron Chair: Poems Best Price: $2.20

Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Best Price: $6.89 A really excellent selection by Diane Wood Middlebrook, includes almost all the important last...	The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme Best Price: $59.39 I've just finished reading "The Art Of Blessing The Day" for the third...	The River Sound: Poems Best Price: $22.99 .... William Merwin opens "The River Sound" with songs of praise for the...	A Possible World Best Price: $1.84 This book contains the hilarious poem "Possible World," a sort of parody of...	The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery Best Price: $7.00 This recording features Ashbery reading sixteen poems--some very short, some rather long--in...

Maya Angelou Poetry Collection The rhyme, the rhythm, the melody, by Jove, Maya, they speak to me, so strongly, I wrote 4...	Phenomenal Woman Best Price: $8.97 Phenomenal Woman is an outstanding prose by Dr. Maya Angelou. The piece pays tribute to the...	Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms Best Price: $8.54 In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists,...	The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems Best Price: $12.24 A comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet?s rich and signifi cant body of work...	Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic Best Price: $3.99 When Houston A. Baker Jr. one of America?s foremost literary critics, first published ...

Ejo: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry) Best Price: $10.00 Derik Burleson's brave and terrifying book about genocide in Rwanda broke my heart.As a PCV...	Field Guide (Volume 68 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets) Best Price: $2.99	Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (Yale Series of Younger Poets) Best Price: $11.97 Maurice Manning's first collection of poetry is, in a word, refreshing. Unlike the work of...	Discography Best Price: $3.50 sean singer displays an astonishing energy and range in this collection, and (this is one of the...	The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem Best Price: $59.94 Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets. (I recommend her NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (1993).) ...

What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems Best Price: $2.27 Best read out loud. Poems about nature and life.	Man and Camel: Poems Best Price: $2.78 Mr. Strand writes poems that are brief and books that are brief. What Mr. Strand lacks in...	Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems Best Price: $82.94 Stagelee wonders how white folks think black folk make it and survive while they colonize,...	Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin Academics) Best Price: $30.00 One of the joys of reading a poetry anthology, is the likely hood of encountering a previously...	The Crooked Inheritance: Poems Best Price: $11.95 An ?exquisite . . . spot on? ( The Hudson Review ) collection of poems from one of our...

Black Lab Best Price: $8.88 perhaps because he taught English, poetry and prose, at Oberlin for so long, and has translated...	The Changing Light at Sandover Best Price: $18.36 A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill?s most famous and celebrated work.	Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History	Selected & New Poems Best Price: $8.50	In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Best Price: $4.75 Kim Barnes seems to be making a career of writing memoirs -- two before she's turned forty. ...

The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets Best Price: $6.00 "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big...	There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1962-1978 Ondaatje, Michael. There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to do: (poems 1963-78)....	From the Iron Chair: Poems Best Price: $2.20

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