Poetry
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The House of Being
$18.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Searching and intimate, this impres- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300265921
- Language: English
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What W.H. Auden Can Do for You
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith’s charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life–and how he might guide yours, too
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie–E- Series: Writers on Writers #5
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234531
- Language: English
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The Poet’s Handbook
$15.99 Add to cartThis handbook teaches the basics of the modern poet’s craft: diction, imagery, metrics, verse forms, symbolism.
- Author: Jerome, Judson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1582971366
- Language: English
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Ncs: The Sonnets 2ed
$13.00 Add to cartThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and… [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: June 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0521678374
- Language: English
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Avidly Reads Poetry
$17.00 Add to cart“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”
Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Joe Biden’s Presidential inauguration, to poems regu- Author: Ardam, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1479813583
- Language: English
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
$14.95 Add to cartRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon–a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggerin… [more below]
- Author: Hugo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 09 2010
- ISBN10: 039333872X
- Language: English
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Tender Buttons
$9.95 Add to cartThe MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.
2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the ori
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0872866351
- Language: English
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Notes on the Poet: A Little Book of Criticism
$15.00 Add to cartIn Notes on the Poet, John Poch revives the ancient but little-practiced art of the aphorism. Like prayer ribbons, these compressed utterances are tied to that space between reading and writing, poet
- Author: Poch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1939574366
- Language: English
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Poetic Meter and Form
$7.95 Add to cartCan you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from an amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade, and what is poetic rhythm? In th… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Wynne, Octavia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1952178088
- Language: English
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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
$18.99 Add to cartA masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented explorat… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0156005662
- Language: English
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100 Essential Modern Poems
$37.43 Add to cartInspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny-here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterp… [more below]
- Author: Parisi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1566636124
- Language: English
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Poems of the Masters: China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time in any Western language, the complete text of China’s classic poetry anthology.
- Author: Pine, Red
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1556591950
- Language: English
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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
$16.95 Read moreQuick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singin… [more below]
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348970
- Language: English
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson
$49.95 Add to cartThe definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.
Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through l- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0674982975
- Language: English
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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPoetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it–it is a kind of literature that uses special ling… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: O’Donoghue, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0199229112
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun brings poetry
Before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with verse. A
out of the classroom and into the homes of everyday readers.- Series: Harvest Original
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0156007622
- Language: English
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd Edition
$23.99 Add to cartHarold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central visi… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0195112210
- Language: English
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A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike
A Little Book on Form brillia
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062332430
- Language: English
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
$19.95 Read moreRenowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the mo
- Author: Hollis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065982
- Language: English
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The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
$14.95 Read moreA manifesto against the concepts of growth and debt, and a call for a reinvestment in the social body.
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today’s precarious times, and a rallying cry in the fa
- Series: Semiotext(e) Intervention (Numbered) #14
- Author: Berardi, Franco Bifo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1584351128
- Language: English
