Poetry
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Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
$22.99 Add to cartThe Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Professor Frank Kermode, gathers work from Eliot’s unrivalled career as a literary and social critic. These thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in gen
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0156806541
- Language: English
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2024 Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier.- Author: Ruby, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1644214237
- Language: English
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A Little History of Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartA vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present
Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Carey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283423
- Language: English
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Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture
$19.95 Read moreWhat is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America’s poetry landscape, examining this profou… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Schneiderman, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0472039849
- Language: English
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
$37.00 Add to cartBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.
By the middle of the twentieth century, Rober- Author: Plunkett, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374282080
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$11.95 Add to cart‘Live now and listen, do not wait in vain
Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extra
Until tomorrow; pluck life’s rose today.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Du Bellay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0192847996
- Language: English
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I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems
$22.00 Add to cartAcclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath’s poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.
One of our leading interpreters- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538136
- Language: English
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Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture
$29.95 Read moreLiterature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers a… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Queen, Khadijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0472039792
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Poetry as Insurgent Art
$16.95 Read moreIn 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217191
- Language: English
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
$26.00 Read moreSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illum
- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066383
- Language: English
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Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift
$16.99 Add to cartGrab your highlighters and favorite red pen and prepare to join professor of “Swifterature” Dr. Elly McCausland as she dives deep into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift. Going line by line and word … [more below]
- Author: McCausland, Elly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600815
- Language: English
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
$21.95 Read more“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881958
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
$30.00 Read moreFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over the centuries to assemble the most imper… [more below]
- Author: Leithauser, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655050
- Language: English
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
$15.00 Read moreIn The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness gu
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975623
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
