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| As I Walked Out One Evening By W.H. Auden Auden's lighter poems includes 13 poems not previously published USAorUK |
| Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden W. H. Auden wrote some of the greatest love poetry of the twentieth century. This book contains ten of his poems about love. USA |
| 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda "Sensual as a tropical night swirling in honeysuckle and jazz, with its lush textures and effervescent lyricism, this book is like a smokey champagne which two lovers, mesmerized by each other's presence, are sipping."--San Francisco Examiner. USAorUK |
| Twenty Love Poems and 'A Song of Despair' by Pablo Neruda A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago, this collection is now offered for the first time in a beautiful gift edition. This superb translation and richly colored illustrations bring the poems of this classic volume vividly to life. USAorUK |
| Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas USA |
| Among Angels a collection of poems about angels USAorUK |
| A Tale of Two Gardens : Poems from India 1952-1995 by Octavio
Paz Mr. Paz contrasts Mexico with India, and this in part is the theme of the title poem, where he evokes a romantic abandoned garden he had loved as a child and the garden he and his wife, Marie-José, had in Delhi.Raleigh Trevelyan, The New York Times Book Review USA |
| Wild Nights at the Alliance Francaise : From Paperback Poets to
the Present by Tom Shapcott USA |
| The Oresteia translated by Ted Hughes Aeschylus, the fifth-century B.C. Attic tragedian, is famous for his knottiness, his clotted images and riddling compound words. Ted Hughes, in his posthumously published translation of the Orestes trilogy, unties the knots and unpacks the compounded thoughts.The New York Times Book Review, Garry Wills USAorUK |
| Willing Eye by Ryan Tracy USAorUK |
| The Man in the White Suit by Nick Drake USAorUK |
| Working for the Government by Gerard Fanning USAorUK |
| The Wind Dog by Tom Paulin "Tom Paulin is among the best of a great generation of Irish poets."The Sunday Telegraph USAorUK |
| The Man Made of Rain by Brendan Kennelly USAorUK |
| Skipping Without Ropes by Jack Mapanje USAorUK |
| Sacrilege by Brendan Cleary a lighthearted and unassuming voice that manages to be at once homely and ironican unusually winning combination.From Kirkus Reviews USAorUK |
| Poetry of Basil Bunting by Victoria Forde USAorUK |
| Other People's Houses by Groarke Vona USAorUK |
| The Mooring of Starting Out : The First Five Books of Poetry by
John Ashbery His poetry appeals not because it offers wisdom in a packaged form, but because the elusiveness and mysterious promise of his lines remind us that we always have a future and a condition of meaningfulness to start out toward.New York Times Book Review USA |
| Girls on the Run : A Poem by John Ashbery Ashbery dips his bucket into the well for his 19th volume, and emerges with a book-length poem inspired by the lusty dreamlike work of outsider artist, Henry Darger.From Kirkus Reviews USAorUK |
| Death & Fame : Poems 1993-199 7 by Allen Ginsberg This singular volume of final poems commemorated the anniversary of Ginsberg's death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before he died. USAorUK |
| And the Stars Were Shining by John Ashbery Out of the fizz of his landscapes and cryptic anecdotes emerge curious declarations about how to live lightly but feel deeply, how to laugh at the craziness and treasure glimpses of beauty and bursts of humor.Booklist USAorUK |
| Best of Simple by Langston Hughes USAorUK |
| Jack, the Lady Killer by H. R. F. Keating A narrative poem desribed as "unique and entertaining" USAorUK |
| Severn and Somme and War's Embers by R. K. R. Thornton First World War Poetry USAorUK |
| Collected Poems by Mahon Derek USAorUK |
| Sea With No Ships by McGuinness Frank USAorUK |
| 'Nothing But Heather': Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and
Prose by Gerry Cambridge USAorUK |
| Freelancing : Adventures of a Poet by Hugo Williams Spend a few months with a Freelancing poet UK |
| Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams The poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair that has ended. USAorUK |
| About Love : Poems by John Montague In Mr. Montague's fine, firm poems, loving force is always made real by being felt as threatened by the angers of Ireland and of this Irishman.Christopher Ricks, The New York Times Book Review USAorUK |
| Repair by C. K. Williams "Formally, these new poems mark a departure. Underneath, though, they are driven by the familiar Williams sensibility: intelligent, restless . . . always wanting to know and understand more . . . [an] excellent book."The Boston Book Review USAorUK |
| The Vineyard Above the Sea by Charles Tomlinson The title poem of this volume describes the vineyards of an area of Italy which has been the subject of many of Tomlinson's poems since his earliest work. UK |
| Charles Tomlinson : Selected Poems / 1955-1997 The sunniness of disposition, both geographically and psychologically, combined with Tomlinson's canny ability to metrically heighten what still sounds to the ear like the language of common day, give a tone that might be rationally described as Tomlinsonian.American Book Review, March/April 1999 USA |