Product Description: ?First UK edition, and re-issue, of an award-winning American book?Poems of love and death, and America?Brilliantly crafted, funny poems from one of America's leading poet-editors

Product Description: When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Persian Translation. Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology collects Basil Bunting's translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa‘dī, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished...read more

A book of poems with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology. It features poems which focus on the energy and depression of living in a world at war with terror, and ultimately with itself, as well as poems about the household terrors of marital relations and questions raised by children about what happens in the world.

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Product Description: Envied by Caligula, exiled by Claudius and finally executed by his pupil Nero, the playwright and philosopher Seneca the Younger (c. 4BC-65BC) wrote in a violent, epigrammatic and extreme style which has often seemed excessive to those living in calmer times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a gentleness of heart. Hernandez was a self-educated goatherd from the tiny Spanish town of Orihuela who tried hard to be accepted among his older contemporaries...read more