The Soul is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many ...
 Bly returns us here to the emotional stew.: I first read Robert Bly's earlier anthology, 'News of the Universe : Poems of Twofold Consciousness' (1980), many years ago and often find myself returning to it, not only to re-read my favorites from its 150 [... more]
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Collected Poems
The Poet...double-minded visionary...enchanting chanter...: This volume of COLLECTED POEMS by Stephane Mallarme and translated with commentary by Henry Weinfield is a joy and a treasure. For it contains Mallarme poems from various of his collections: [... more]
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Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
Sensual Poetry: This was the first time I read Erica Jong's poetry. What is most evident after reading this collection is that she is a woman who truly celebrates and experiences life, particularly the sensual things of the world. She presents the [... more]
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Poems From Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start
From Amazon.com: "Poetry is the home for all my yearnings each poem a separate room where wandering words find a cool bed, a bowl of soup..." Using her own adolescent-appealing poems, Kathi Appelt has created a poetry guide that teens can turn [... more]
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Selected Poems And Prose Of Paul Celan
disappointed: Poetry is the most difficult writing to translate. Since it is impossible to retain the content, psychic distance, syntax, and rhytmn, the translation of poetry is about sacrifices. I found Felstiner sacrificed meaning far too often in his [... more]
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Elephant Rocks: Poems
Witty, Edgy, Beautiful: I loved this book. Kay Ryan's poems are very short, but they pack so much ambiguous meaning in a few lines. They're quite unusual among contemporary poetry: epigrammatic, terse, very accessible, almost light verse, but with [... more]
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Immortal Poems of the English Language
I love this book!: I have several books of poetry at home, but this one is my favorite. It is a good collection of poetry from the time of Middle English to almost to the present. There are a few modern poets I would like to see included that haven't [... more]
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The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems
The world in a grain of sand: If you don't know Sze's work, this is a good place to start, and if you do it's a fine "Best of" collection with a few new poems added. I liked it a great deal, and kept picking it up and rereading some of the [... more]
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News from Down to the Cafe: New Poems
warm up my cup, please: Did you ever sit at the counter of a small coffee shop, where everyone not only knows your name, but your life story as well? That's what reading David Lee's latest is like. The poems are the stories of the people , alive and dead, [... more]
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The Painted Bed: Poems
gets a bit weighty: Donald Hall's collection The Painted Bed sort of does more of the same, lamenting the loss of his wife. A poem or two is one thing, but whole book? There are some good poems in this book, both of the long poems are pretty good (" [... more]
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Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems
reprint of Library Journal review: "The body is a boat gliding / down the river whose fragrance / spins us to the shady places / under apple trees / and into bedrooms" It is the subtle influences--fragrance, music, color, the sound of snow [... more]
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Tone Poems in Full Score, Series I: Don Juan, Tod Und ...
The Tone Poems Of Richard Strauss: No music truly exists in a book. The composer puts his directions on paper, and the musician tries his best to do what the composer has directed to do. Play this note high, this note low, this note long, this note short, [... more]
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