Provides a critical perspective on the entirety of Anne Sexton's work through reviews and essays by such writers as Denise Levertov, James Dickey, and Jane McCabe

Poems consider ruins of the past, memories, our relationship to the natural world, and poses that are real despite their self-consciousness

An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse

Product Description: Collection of articles (many of them previously published in various literary reviews), each focusing on a particular poet: Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, W. D. Snodgrass, James Merrill, Richard Howard, John Hollander, Amy Clampitt, and Anthony Hecht...read more

Poems deal with love, friendship, fog, AIDS, the Middle East, nature, violence, anger, and mortality

Gathers selected modern poems from around the world

The editor of The Yale Review and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets draws on a rich stew of historical incidents to create a sequence of poems based on the laws of the heart. (view table of contents)

In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical―and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere―J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind.McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet and as a man, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility―from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenious reader to accomplished poet-critic.Later sections range through poetry past and present―from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W. S. Merwin―with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount" is interwoven with compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities. There are surprising takes on the literary imagination as well: a look at Elizabeth Bishop through her letters, and a tribute to the Broadway lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and the tradition of light verse.The questions McClatchy poses of poems prompt a fresh look and the last word. Free of scholarly pretension, elegantly and movingly written, Twenty Questions is a bright, open window onto a public and private experience of poetry, to be appreciated by poets, readers, and critics alike.

The poet reads a collection of her works.

The poet reads a collection of his works.

An enchanting and witty compendium of Yuletide poetry includes the lyrics to familiar carols, Moore's 'A Visit from St. Nicholas,' and other great works by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy Parker, Robert Graves, and Philip

The editor of The Yale Review and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets draws on a rich stew of historical incidents to create a sequence of poems based on the laws of the heart. Reprint.

From Emily Dickinson's reflections on the jay to Seamus Heaney's celebration of the turkey, a collection of avian poems pays tribute to the amazing world of birds in works by Gertrude Stein, Chaucer, Tennyson, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, John Updike, Po ChuI, W. B. Yeats, Virgil, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, and other poets from around the world. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

The leading figure of the Beat movement mined his own life for his poems: his travels and drug trips, his homosexuality and Buddhism, his political musings and prophetic outcries, and his dark vision of America's sickened soul. Read by the author.

Product Description: Read by the PoetOne Cassette, 1 hourThe second installment of our exclusive The Voice of the Poet series, comprised of rare archival recordings, some never before released, featuring Anne Sexton.This audio production is accompanied by a book containing the text to the poems and a commentary by J...read more

The heir to a patrician Boston family, the instinctively rebellious Lowell fashioned an open, confessional style, using his troubled family history, broken marriages, and manicdepressive episodes as the subjects for his poems. Read by the author.

Paying tribute to an American literary icon, this collection of Longfellow's the best work from his poems, novels, and essays reveals the secret behind his enormous popularity in the 19th century.

Fifty years of the author's acclaimed poetry--with works ranging from his earliest anthology, The Black Swan and Other Poems, to the posthumous volume A Scattering of Salts--are collected into a single volume for the first time, celebrating a lifetime of verse by one of the twentieth century's literary masters. 10,000 first printing.

Called by Robert Lowell 'the most heartbreaking poet of his generation,' Jarrell (1914-1965) explored in his poems the 'unknown, unwanted life'--the empty corridors in all our lives--with the child, the aging woman, and the victim as favorite characters in his tender and subtle dramatic monologues.

A collection of representative poetry by H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein.

One of America's most acclaimed living poets and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award labels his poems as 'paradigms of common experience,' in which the mind listens for its haphazard memories and unconscious desires while hearing the world's buzzing distractions.

Product Description: College years—when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired—can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writing lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of gay and lesbian love poems spans the centuries with contributions from Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Constantine Cavafy, W. H. Auden, James Merrill, and many others. 20,000 first printing.