Abandoned Poems

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mo...

A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Th...

Poems that gaze and listen: What is stillness? Can you hold emptiness? Waking to Snow tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto. The poems are ar...

Thomas Hardy's first love was poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was 58, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the fin...

Features poems about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they...

Reducere. The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minn...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his re...

Reducere. In Wes Magee's new book of enchanting poems, you'll find tempting treats and spooky scenes. You can explore an abandoned mansion, meet Mr. Grimm, h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rosa AlcalaPoetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. "How do we trace shifts of home or syllable, the history of beco...

DescriptionA Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection Wanderi...

Geography and language collide in Soil by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange, situated at the cusp of natural and urban. A fox climbs ...

Between the Crackups is a frolicking romp through the abandoned factories, overcrowded highways, and forgotten rural landscapes of America. Part se...

The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's ...

An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a mas...

Reducere. This is a newly translated collection of poetry - in a bilingual edition - by Francophone writer Nadia Tueni, including more than forty selected po...

DescriptionAlthough we know him best as a playwright, Shakespeare was also a poet, living as he did in an age when the writing of verse enhanced an...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict ne...

Reducere. Here is the continuation of Martha Ronk's life-long investigation of things as they are seen at a remove or seen not at all as in the presence of s...

Reducere. Winner of the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize"Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great...

From the unusual opening poem (conflating birth with a car crash) to its close (an abandoned suitcase representing an entire lifetime), this book w...

Reducere. A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home ...

Reducere. A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documenta...

Reducere. Tennesse Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennesse Williams' four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1940, '41, '44 and '47. Du...

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-...

At the core of Libby Burton's highly anticipated debut poetry collection, Soft Volcano, are the vivid details underpinning the relationships we hol...

Reducere. Fatherless and abandoned by his mother at age six, Nobel Laureate, Harry Martinson, grew up mostly in rural foster homes in the south of Sweden in ...

Reducere. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known f...

In Jan Beatty's fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of bur...

Reducere. Welcome to Nightmares of the New Order, a gateway into a new realm of surreal imagination and dark possibilities not too dissimilar from our own re...

Reducere. The courageous and true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats. Al...

Reducere. The Jungle Book is a collection of stories. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The...