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Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
By Thomas Hardy.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses
By Thomas Hardy.
The Breitmann Ballads
By Charles G. Leland.
Georgics
By Virgil.
The Ballad of the White Horse
By G. K. Chesterton.
New York, 1960
By Barry Gifford. 2016
Barry Gifford's newest poetry collection captures the disarray of a life lived with passion and in many places. Gifford ponders…
serendipitous acquaintances, mourns the deaths of friends and squandered relationships, and writes love-filled notes to his daughter and granddaughter. New York, 1960 is an evocative collection from an enduring voice.Barry Gifford has authored more than forty books, which have been published in twenty-eight languages. His work has been awarded by PEN, the NEA, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, and more.Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
By Oliver Goldsmith, Austin Dobson.
Here Come the Moonbathers
By Patricia Young. 2008
Here Come the Moonbathers, is more dark, difficult and tragic than Patricia Young's earlier work. The poems in this collection…
have wild freedom, exploring the themes of love, longing and loss with grace, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable.The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2
By Emma Lazarus.
La Divina Commedia, Purgatorio
By Dante Alighieri.
Holy Heathen Rhapsody
By Pattiann Rogers. 2013
New work from an award-winning poet who writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation, and gratitude” (Booklist) Pattiann Rogers has won…
acclaim as one of the most original voices in contemporary American poetry. The poems in her new collection, Holy Heathen Rhapsody, embrace and embody the forces of the Earth and the creative power of its lifeforms in all the wildness of their varieties. Love in these poems is a force infused with the same creative power and intensity, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This vision and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of green or a midnight spider, even a mongrel dog, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and weapons, allevery aspect and feature encounteredare fully endowed players in the dynamic music of the Earth. .Elegies
By Propertius.
The Narrow Circle
By Nathan Hoks. 2013
Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young John Ashbery called Reveilles, Nathan Hoks’s debut book,…
a dazzling” collection and Hoks a poet whose fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully. ” The poems in Hoks’s new book, The Narrow Circle, perform a similar magic. In associative lyrics and fabulist prose, Hoks explores inner and outer experiences. The poems frequently focus on the body as a membrane where everything becomes inside-outwhere the face disperses with angels of teeth and loam,” where sky comes out of the mouth,” where a giant green worm burrows a hole in the head,” and where the heart is a vestibule that cannot be closed. Suites of pictures within the text further delineate this inward-outward pull, offering visualizations of interior voices and sketches of exterior shadows. .The Stick Soldiers
By Hugh Martin, Cornelius Eady. 2013
At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004…
in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio.Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.Lost Luggage
By Salvatore Ala. 2011
Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and…
his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala's new collection of poems -- his third. Lost luggage and the efforts to find the things of this world retrieved and redeemed are central to Ala's poems.A Thaw Foretold
By Mike Barnes. 2006
Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless…
and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal elegance, the poems confront the elementals of love and loss, mortality and remembrance.Jane Again
By Wayne Clifford. 2009
In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a…
profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of his age. Wayne Clifford, in his sixties, has let Jane free to speak once more. We learn why Jane is crazy, if indeed she is.Satires of Circumstance With Miscellaneous Pieces
By Thomas Hardy.
Charmides and Other Poems
By Oscar Wilde.
Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
By John Gower.