Overview :Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic... Read More
Overview :An indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers. "The Poem's Heartbeat may well be the finest general book available on pr... Read More
Overview :The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our timeThis labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first pub... Read More
Overview :America's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearth... Read More
Overview :Poetry slams--the Olympics of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents 10 years of poetry slams, w... Read More
Overview :To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editi... Read More
Overview :"As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here's t... Read More
Overview :How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and cr... Read More
Overview :Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian ... Read More
Overview :Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason ... Read More
Overview :Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer's view of specific works: Willi... Read More
Overview :Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life--and how he might guide... Read More
Overview :A cultural "biography" of Robert Frost's beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of American literature "Two roads diverged in a yel... Read More
Overview :In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philos... Read More
Overview :A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all lev... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl ... Read More
Overview :No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agr... Read More