Overview :In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore an... Read More
Overview :Undoubtedly the most famous verse written by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven is also one of the most famous poems in the world. Though it did not... Read More
Overview :Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve eq... Read More
Overview :This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Itali... Read More
Overview :Poetry slams--the Olympics of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This groundbreaking anthology documents 10 years of poetry slams, w... Read More
Overview :Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian ... Read More
Overview :The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years. Emily Dickinson was... Read More
Overview :After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English translation, William H. Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing himself, ... Read More
Overview :An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Disco... Read More
Overview :One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by Willia... Read More
Overview :The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different t... Read More
Overview :America's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearth... Read More
Overview :Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason ... Read More
Overview :The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful ex... Read More
Overview :A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry... Read More