I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up: (or, Social Romanticism) (New American Poetry) by Bruce Andrews

At once irreverent, serious, silly, intellectual, sexual, and relevant, Shut Up is a brilliant kaleidoscope of the social-sexual-political realities of the late 20th century. Shut Up is Andrews’ most accessible work to date; but it is also writing so raw and powerful that it will infuriate some of its audience. For Shut Up is a work directed at its readers, at the social and political community from which the writing springs, and Andrews holds no punches in his assault on the stupidity and barbarism of American moral homilies, its bigotry and destructiveness. “I can’t watch the freedom,” the poet angrily proclaims. “Astronauts would only prefer the hula, harmalite, tissue blots off Judeo-Christian sunset – church a regular wound museum . . . Timesharing Jesus – boys one smirking boys one shot.” As in much of Andrews’ writing, the poet pushes beyond cynicism into an aphoristic wit and outright laughter: “Literature is worse than life.” “Porn teaches us what to forget.” In Shut Up the author of such noted books as Love Songs, Give ‘Em Enough Rope, Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened, and Executive Summary takes everybody’s language into the great (rediscovered) known, a world of slang, song, street jive, pompous pronouncements, and whisperings of love. It is a world at once beautiful and terrifying, a world that cannot recognize its own beauty, its prophets, its own doom

The Walls Were Not Big Enough to Hold You: Foyle Anthology 2018

 An anthology of the top 15 poems in the 2018 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, judged by Caroline Bird and Daljit Nagra. The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is The Poetry Society’s annual poetry competition for young poets around the world aged 11-17. The Award has sparked off the careers of many celebrated poets, including Jay Bernard, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Richard Osmond and Caroline Bird herself. Read the 2018 anthology online below.

Thorns of the Blood Rose by Victor H. Anderson, Gwydion Pendderwen (Preface)

 Winner of the 1975 Clover International Poetry Competition Award, this collection of ritual and love poetry of witchcraft has been hailed as a classic of neo-Pagan literature

Your Voice Crosses the Ocean: Foyle Anthology 2019

 An anthology of the top 15 poems in the 2019 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, judged by Raymond Antrobus and Jackie Kay. The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is The Poetry Society’s annual poetry competition for young poets around the world aged 11-17. The Award has sparked off the careers of many celebrated poets, including Jay Bernard, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Richard Osmond and Caroline Bird herself. Read the 2019 anthology online below.

For When The Revolution Comes: Poetry of days | Poetry of hope (Songbooks and Poetry) by Moushumi Ghose

 For When The Revolution Comes is a hauntingly beautiful poetry collection by Moushumi Ghose that delves deep into the emotional turmoil of a world in crisis. Through a series of raw and evocative poems, Ghose explores the profound sense of depression, sadness, loneliness, and disillusionment that arises when life feels increasingly chaotic and unjust.

This collection serves as both a personal reflection and a quiet act of resistance. Ghose candidly examines her struggle to find meaning and a sense of belonging in a world turned upside down, capturing the disillusionment and loud stirring or rebellion and resistance within her heart. Each poem is imbued with vivid and stirring imagery that mirrors the chaos and uncertainty of our times, resonating with anyone who has grappled with similar feelings of despair and hope.

In For When The Revolution Comes, Ghose offers readers a poignant and introspective journey through a landscape of emotional depth, providing solace and solidarity to those navigating the complexities of the human experience during challenging times.

Selected Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In 'Selected Poems', Elizabeth Barrett Browning's lyrical and deeply emotional writing shines through. From the love poems that captured her own romantic relationship with Robert Browning, to her social commentary and spiritual reflections, this collection is a testament to her unique voice in poetry.

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver’s poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life.

 

Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, “Owls,” selected for the Best American Essays series, and “Bird,” a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre.

In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, “Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.”

For anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift; for those who love both, it will be essential reading.

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Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant by Indran Amirthanayagam

 There's an adage that journalism is the first draft of history, but for the flesh-and-blood truth of lived experience, the "news that stays news" has always been poetry. And perhaps no poet is better situated to write of the tumultuous events of the recent past than Indran Amirthanayagam, a true global citizen. In TEN THOUSAND STEPS AGAINST THE TYRAN, he encapsulates the full range of emotion surrounding the 2020 U.S. presidential election and subsequent insurrection, taking place against the backdrop of a deadly global pandemic, from terror and outrage to euphoria and hope for "Joe and Kamala," as he refers to the newly elected president and vice president, this familiarity itself a desire for a return to decency and simple human dignity. There are poems here that treat of politics and lofty affairs of state, a world the poet has experienced as an international diplomat, and of living through pandemic; but for the heart of the collection, look to his tender poem for his mother, and his desire to keep her safe, to hold her forever--"Decline and death are prohibited." This same love is extended to all mankind throughout these poems. They are a celebration, but also a warning of the fragility of our tenuous step back from the brink of tyranny. And if the first bloom of hope for the Biden administration is already wilting a bit in the harsh glare of reality, that's all the more reason to persevere. "We need to hear / the songs of your migrant heart," he declares in his opening poem. We need to keep singing. We need to be prepared to take the next step, beyond the 10,000 steps it has taken to reach this point, ready for the moment "the world wakes up from / this pandemic dream alive and ready to move, / to make, to fill, and to rename the void."

Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg

 Superb collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet.

This collection of Sandburg’s finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks’s comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg’s life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today.

Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick

Homecoming: New and Collected Poems by Julia Alvarez

 Homecoming is Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. 

Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. These more recent writings are still deeply autobiographical in nature, but written with the edgier, more knowing tone of a woman who has seen, and survived, more of life. Wonderfully lucid and engaging, toned with deep emotionality and a wry observation of life, the poems of Julia Alvarez stand next to her fiction to both delight us and give us lessons in living and loving

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 by Donald Allen

With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles Times

From the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.

With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver’s prolific mind—a must-have for all poetry-lovers

The Day Before: Poems by Dick Allen

"A stunning follow-up to Allen’s award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound. "No matter how tactile and specific he is, Allen always retains a sense of the greater world. . . . [H]is pristine poems flow like timelines, drawing unexpected connections between happenings both major and minor, and observations both subtle and life changing."—Booklist

Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names, and Anon and Various Time Machine Poems. He recently retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport and lives in Trumbull, Connecticut

Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot’s early work

Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton by Kazim Ali

This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton.

Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work through the eyes of celebrated poet and scholar, Kazim Ali. 

Collecting chapters of Clifton’s early manuscripts, late drafts, and integrating her books of children’s literature, Ali’s meticulously researched volume provides a brilliant and fresh perspective on Clifton’s life and work.

Various chapters examine Clifton’s treatment of the body as a site of both joy and danger, spirituality, and an interrogation of American history, politics, and popular culture. The result of Ali’s scholarship and care highlights a dazzling array of Clifton’s poetic techniques and forms that will continue to inspire poets, readers, and Lucille Clifton fans—past, present and future—for decades to come

Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara

The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period

Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney

 A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet

Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority."

Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile Selected Poems 1988–2013, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from Seeing Things (1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; The Spirit Level (1996) where we experience "the poem as ploughshare that turns time / Up and over."; the landmark translation of Beowulf (1999); Electric Light (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past

Face by Sherman Alexie

Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time."

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from the warring factions by Ammiel Alcalay, Fred Dewey (Contributor)

The long awaited 2nd edition of from the warring factions brings back into print Ammiel Alcalay's book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, site of the massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. This daring blend of lyric and document remaps the world we inherit, from native New England to the Roman Empire, from the Gulf War to Palestine and the Balkans. The late Adrienne Rich has called from the warring factions the "kind of poem I've been waiting to read." And in her new introduction, Diane di Prima writes "This book forced me to redefine my life." Accompanied by an extensive discussion between Alcalay and poet Benjamin Hollander, as well as a new preface by the author, this edition brings an essential text of the post-9/11 world back into the conversation

New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe

An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe.

Characterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe’s four previous collections―including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book Award–longlisted Magdalene (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood―and contains twenty new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about aging while walking the dog, Howe is “a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy” (Dorianne Laux)