Product Description: Erratic Facts, Kay Ryan’s first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, offers sixty-plus new examples of her swift, lucid style. Ryan examines enormous subjects with compact poems in which sly rhymes and syncopation lend an off-foot musicality to unnerving wisdom...read more

Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder.” The two hundred poems in Ryan’s The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.

Product Description: Helps to select a poem you love, then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Whether you're a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara or Walt Whitman, this title includes poems for various people.

A new collection of poetry by the author of Say Uncle and Elephant Rocks presents the 'off-kilter' poetic vision of a writer whose verses have appeared in the Sunday funnies page, on subway cars, and in the pages of The New Yorker. Original.

A new anthology of poetry by the award-winning author of Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends and Flamingo Watching presents an array of mgical, unpredictable, and lyrical works that explores the hidden connections of ordinary events and objects. Original. (view table of contents)

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A third collection of verse by the author of Strangely Marked Metal and Flamingo Watching presents a new collection of original, quirky, and provocative poetry.