
A Mask For Janus
While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models....
View full detailsWhile Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models....
View full detailsThis is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light ...
View full detailsThe winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about ...
View full detailsConsidered among the most important collections of poetry written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance, For My People is a series of b...
View full detailsThe poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young-adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of th...
View full detailsKen Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet’s relationship with his immi...
View full detailsThe first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan's lifetime, Poems examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls...
View full detailsComparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great ...
View full detailsHow can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration...
View full detailsIn an essay on his own work in 19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate, Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, s...
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