What Work Is: Poems, Paperback

Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 "This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, wi...

Reducere. "Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted." --New York Tim...

Reducere. DescriptionAward-winning M tis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as...

Reducere. ABC's of SELF-ESTEEM is a power-packed, thought-provoking, and motivational book of inspiring short poems. The poems are usable tools for positive ...

Reducere. "Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine or hide with you in the dusk. "Cleaning" best sums up What to Eat, What to D...

Reducere. Listen to what they did.Don't listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.--from "Blood and Lead"The leading poet of ...

Reducere. Vahni Capildeo's Odyssey Calling is a completely stunning work of velocity, vision and hospitality. These poems make you feel at home, except what ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter authoring more than 30 books, Andrew Harvey, Rumi scholar, mystic, and founder of Sacred Activism, is releasing what may be his co...

Reducere. This is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. His17th poetry collection and ...

Reducere. A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.--Pulitzer Prize finalist citat...

Heid E. Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of con...

Reducere. Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon) w...

Reducere. A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more ...

Reducere. A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readersNo poet is more e...

Reducere. Poet and singer-songwriter Beth Wood follows up her award-winning poetry book Ladder To The Light with Believe The Bird, a collection of forthright...

Reducere. "How the hell did we become the way we are? Ask John Morrison. He won't tell you, because he doesn't know, but he will provide you exquisite exampl...

Reducere. The Selected Poems is a unique selection of Oppen's work from the seven books he published during his lifetime. Edited by one of our most respected...

Reducere. "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing, " wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago; and recently, Rita Dove described her last...

Reducere. Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins the most popular poet in America. He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most ...

Reducere. Description"Franklin K. R. Cline is a unique, new voice in Native American poetry. His personal and confessional poems celebrate everyday life in a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eric Tran"Eric Tran's Revisions revises more than words. These poems, with their restless forms and lexicons, needle themse...

Reducere. The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relat...

Reducere. Ann Hudson's Glow investigates the mystery of radium the vision of Marie Curie who discovered it through labor and sheer will; its rise to fame as ...

Reducere. The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"--a way of arranging prose in r...

The Colors of LifeBy: Kevin MaddockThe future is hard to see.The past and present may stop the thought.The future is there for me.The future will t...

Reducere. Caught between a loving husband and a man from her past, one woman chooses an unconventional way to explore her personal "road not taken."Love is N...

Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes i...

Reducere. The poems in LIBERTY are a capsule of the summer of 2020, a summer of fear-- of what was within and of what was outside.****************"How long c...

Reducere. DescriptionAisha Sharif's debut collection is an exploration in belonging--to a family, to a community, to a faith. In poems that navigate the boun...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medic...

My favorite poets are Langston Hughes and Helen Stiener Rice. I consider my style a unique hybrid of the two. She looked for the beauty in nature a...

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

Reducere. The debut collection of poetry by Anaïs Duplan. "I have never before read a book like Anaïs Duplan's Take This Stallion. Her major talent is recogn...

Reducere. Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important Engl...

Reducere. Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important Engl...

Reducere. This book titled End Time Bee Poems was written first from the inspiration of my Lord Jesus Christ, who kept the theme of bees through my life and ...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn...

Reducere. ``The hard-won achievement of a lifetime.`` -- Wall Street Journal ``When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what...

Reducere. DescriptionInventive, surprising, moving, and often funny, the twenty poems in this book portray a female deity (Mrs. God herself) and follow her a...

Reducere. Poetry. Henry James wrote, "We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. T...

Reducere. i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.Mjele MsimangContemporary poet Mjele Msimang captures something of today's zeitge...

Reducere. Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of bac...

Reducere. Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure brilliance opens between your columns? What ancien...

Reducere. DescriptionBlood Work reveals what happens to the self when the body is compromised by illness. These poems explore the struggle to remain whole in...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERNamed a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the Oprah Magazine. One of ...

Reducere. New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year to bring more visibility to Midwestern writing that ...

Reducere. Collected here in this omnibus edition are all three of St. John of the Cross' major works as well as twenty of his magnificent poems. The Ascent o...

Reducere. Lambda Literary AwardsDawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces t...

Reducere. Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time. Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001) Paul Celan s widely recognized ...

Reducere. Cynthia Pelayo constructs a narrative in her poetry in response to the work of Jorge Luis Borges that examines the themes and subsequent consequenc...

Reducere. Maj Ragain is the author of seven chapbooks of poetry and five book-length collections, all of which contribute to Clouds Pile Up in the North: New...

A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of ``bucolic`` or pastoral poetry in...

Reducere. Poems merge queer ecopoetics with religious disposition, speaking through a pantheon of mythic figures--from Jesus to Aphrodite--to commune or cont...

Reducere. Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been...

Reducere. DescriptionHumor-dark, sharp, and often redemptive-permeates this irresistible collection of poems exploring womanhood, family and sexual relations...

Reducere. Billie R. Tadros's Graft Fixation is fascinated by what comes together after a break-it's never quite the old form, but it's not fully a new one, e...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Art. Edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin. A collection of poem...

Reducere. Description"Savannah Sipple's debut is proof of a woman rising--up from the strung-out, Christ-haunted carcinogens and violences of a land stripped...

Reducere. Wild Kingdom explores the world of academia, examining this strange landscape populated by faculty, administrators, and students. Using what she ca...

Reducere. Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most ...

Reducere. If two girls are two halves of a deep, lifelong friendship, what does one girl wholly become when the other is gone? Amy Woolard's debut collection...

Reducere. "The finest collection of poetry I've read in a very long time."--Ron HansenFrom my birth motherI took my melancholy dispositionand from my fathert...

Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe,...

Reducere. The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do. Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's poems measure the...

Reducere. The present volume includes the majority of Lucian Blaga's poetry written before the Communist era. Missing are only the posthumous poems. The geni...

Reducere. In What My Hand Say, Glenis Redmond digs deep, risking peace of mind, the comfort of ignorance and the assurance of being numb to history and memor...

Written by an aunt to her potential niece, the letters in Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles introduce the "Z" to the wildly vexed work of taking on--and ...

DescriptionIn a kind of literary trompe l'oeil, Jackie Craven's marvelous first full-length collection is ultimately about the invisible--and only ...

Reducere. Tarots cards, much like poems, have the ability to paint a vivid picture of what once was or what could be. They delve into the subtleties that we ...

Contributor(s): Author: Warsan ShireWhat elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Wars...