American poetry - 20th century
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens: The Corrected Edition
$20.00 Add to cartAn essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet.”
Originally published in 1954 to honor- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Stevens, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 1101911689
- Language: English
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
$23.00 Read moreDazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our… [more below]
- Author: McClatchy, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030935
- Language: English
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Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0807069140
- Language: English
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Whale Fall: Poems
$26.95 Read moreAcclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a humm
- Author: Baker, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020636
- Language: English
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What about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
$40.00 Read more“The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford.”–NPR.org
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
“What About This… introduces to a broader audien
- Author: Stanford, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 764
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1556594682
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
$15.95 Add to cartThe verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #66
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201627
- Language: English
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The Rain in Portugal: Poems
$16.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0812982681
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$30.00 Read moreIn eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence, and meticulous observation of nature,
- Author: Voigt, Ellen Bryant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035323
- Language: English
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The Undressing: Poems
$15.95 Read moreA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since t
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357872
- Language: English
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All of Us: The Collected Poems
$19.00 Read moreA rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets.
Like Raymond Carver… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703802
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
$27.95 Read moreThe lifework of a preeminent New York School poet
Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)
One of the most notable members of the New York School–and its best-known woman–Barbara Guest began
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Guest, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0819567779
- Language: English
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Finalists
$16.95 Read moreA double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout
What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascibl
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Armantrout, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0819580686
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
$50.00 Read moreThe first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century” (John Berryman).
When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, “In Dreams- Author: Schwartz, Delmore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604304
- Language: English
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The Selected Levis
$24.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Afterword by David St. John
When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I ha- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Levis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0822957930
- Language: English
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The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
$47.48 Add to cartThe definitive collection of anti-establishment American poetry, from Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac to Sapphire and Tupac Shakur
“Welcome to the Wild West of American Poetry, the Hole-In-The-Wall of Blake… [more below]- Author: Kaufman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 27 1999
- ISBN10: 1560252278
- Language: English
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American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
$33.99 Add to cartAs Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged “fundamental division” between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in … [more below]
- Author: Swensen, Cole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333752
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
$12.95 Read moreRobinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century. In this volume, essential poems selected from his major works provide an excellent overview of Jeffers’s style and th… [more below]
- Author: Jeffers, Robinson
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 1965
- ISBN10: 0394702956
- Language: English
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Complete Poems of Hart Crane
$18.99 Read moreThis edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-ea… [more below]
- Series: Centennial Edition
- Author: Crane, Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0871401789
- Language: English
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Hoodwitch
$16.00 Add to cartThis riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a y… [more below]
- Series: Acre
- Author: Hicks, Faylita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1946724246
- Language: English
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Do Angels Need Haircuts?
$30.00 Add to cartIn August of 1970, a 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative i… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1944860215
- Language: English
