A volume culled from the National Book Award-winning poet's entire half-century career is published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of 'Howl' and offers insight into his influence as an iconic Beat generation writer.

Product Description: This work demonstrates, through a selection of Robert Francis' depictions of Robert Frost, the importance of an often overlooked literary friendship that influenced the lives of these New England poets. In his poem, entitled "Axe Handles," poet and environmental icon Gary Snyder pays homage to twentieth century literary paragon Ezra Pound in his honoring the passing, of batons, or axe handles in this case, of the legacy of one to another, or in the very least a sense of literary history and an acknowledgement of that...read more

Product Description: From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous Life (1990) and crowned by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blizzard of One (1998) and his most recent new collection, Man and Camel (2006), this book gives us an essential selection of Mark Strand’s poetry from across the entire span of his remarkable career to date...read more

Product Description: A collection of poems selected and edited by Richard Harteis in honor of William Meredith's 85th birthday. Original etchings by Stoimen Stiolov

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.

Uses Stevens' journals and letters, and the reminiscences of friends, family members and colleagues to recount the second half of the American poet's life