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The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry

The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Adam Kirsch (Paperback 2009)

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Over the last ten years, through essays in "The New Republic", "The New Yorker" and other magazines, Adam Kirsch, "a poetry critic of the very first order" ("The New York Times"), has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today.Sure to cause heated debate, read more...
 
Miscreants: Poems

Miscreants: Poems by James Hoch (Paperback 2009)

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Set in the decaying towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, "Miscreants" investigates the outsider, the contrary, the victim turned delinquent, the troublemaker, the heretic. A collection of impressive range and depth, it captures the rupture that occurs when grave transgression inhabits childhood read more...
 
The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology

The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology by Edward Hirsch & Eavan Boland (Hardcover 2008)

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This illuminating anthology of five and a half centuries of the sonnet follows the form through its various moments and makers. The editors, poets themselves, pay particular attention to the way in which the sonnet thrived or waned over the centuries. They also focus on the way in which individual read more...
 
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie Howe (Paperback 2009)

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Hurrying through everyday tasks, attending a dying mother, helping her child in the playground, the speaker in these poems wonders what the difference is between the self and the soul, the secular and the sacred, where the kingdom of heaven is and how one lives in Ordinary Time.
 
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008

A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 by Adrienne Rich (Hardcover 2008)

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In "A Human Eye", one of America's most distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. Over more than three decades Rich's essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage and range of concerns. She examines a diverse selection of writings and their place read more...
 
Hovering at Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Hovering at Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch by Dahlia Ravikovitch (Paperback 2009)

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In poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, the precarious position of women and the plight of Palestinians under the Occupation, Dahlia Ravikovitch articulates the painful symmetries of power. The extraordinary stylistic range of her poetry reveals her mastery of read more...
 
Behind My Eyes: Poems

Behind My Eyes: Poems by Li-Young Lee (Hardcover 2009)

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Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States' most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward read more...
 
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry by Cole Swensen & David St. John (Hardcover 2009)

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As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged 'fundamental division' between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favour of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. read more...
 
Romantic Life of Toast

Romantic Life of Toast by Peter A Letendre (Paperback 2008)

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The whimsical poems in Romantic Life of Toast are bound to make you smile as you recognize human nature in everyday things. Peter has written a collection of 68 eclectic poems that illustrate the secret lives of the inanimate objects that surround us. What if the bookcase, fry pan, mirror, read more...
 
Shouting, Singing, Smiling: 70 Selected Poems

Shouting, Singing, Smiling: 70 Selected Poems (Paperback )

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A collection of wonderful poems for children. It includes funny poems and narrative poems; poems on love, life, death, nature and beauty, and on every subject children would want to read about. There are also nonsensical poems and thoughtful poems for every mood.
 

 


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