By David Whyte — 1990
This is David Whyte’s second book of poetry, now in its 6th printing.
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“While editing ‘Answering Back,’ in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon.
“I have savored her poems like salt, like honey.
Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers’ notions of what defines erotic poetry.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of “The Dream of a Common Language” and “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law” writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.
The Art of Losing offers a human connection when we are grieving. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning.
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A poetry collection from Louise Erdrich, winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 The poems of Louise Erdrich eloquently and passionately bring to life what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner, and a Native American.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience.
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America’s foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries.
Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. “Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond.” —The Women’s Review of Books
“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’ ” Few students responded.