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  • Night Music

    Poems

    by L. E. Sissman, Peter Davison ...
    Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such ... Read more

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  • The Early Stories

    1953-1975

    by John Updike ...
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Selected Poems of Robert Frost

    by Robert Frost ...
    The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do.In this volume the folowing poems are selected;Out, Out.A Girl’s Garden.After Apple Picking.Birches.Dust of Snow.Fire ... Read more

    $2.50 CAD

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  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • District and Circle

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    1950-2012

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Seeing Things

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Michael Schmidt’s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Woods etc.

    by Alice Oswald ...
    Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005

    by Robert Creeley ...
    This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Endpoint and Other Poems

    by John Updike ...
    A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • New Selected Poems

    by Robert Lowell ...
    In this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell’s poems are brought together from all of his books of verse*.* Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell’s one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD