Outside History

Outside History
Author: Eavan Boland
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1990
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Selected Poems, 1990

Selected Poems, 1990
Author: Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1990
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A professor of English who has taught in such countries as Germany, Egypt and Japan, D.J. Enright has published books of poetry, books for children, novels, and numerous volumes of critical essays and memoirs. Known for his wise, wry and perceptive work, this highly skilled and cunning craftsman tackles social, political, and literary topics with high intelligence and humor. Enright's poetry possesses the power for engaged commentary and is a welcome reminder that poetry finds its vitality, not in theories, but in the experiences of personal life and history. This selection of poems, made with advice from the author, will serve as the ideal introduction to the work of this distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, anthologist, and critic.

Crave Radiance

Crave Radiance
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781555975685

The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. —from "Allegiance" Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 gathers twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
Author: Maxine Kumin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-04-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0393076490

"Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection." --Book Jacket.

Selected Poetry, 1937–1990

Selected Poetry, 1937–1990
Author: João Cabral de Melo Neto
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780819522313

Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. This bilingual anthology brings together a representative selection from more than a half century of this distinguished Brazilian poet's lifetime work. Along with previously translated poems are many others in English for the first time. The remarkable group of poets and translators includes Elizabeth Bishop, Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Louis Simpson, and W. S. Merwin.

New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1992
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.

Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000

Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000
Author: Ronald Stuart Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.