• Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)

    Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Ma... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501127756
    • ASIN: 1501127756
    • ISBN: 1501127756
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

    Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets include:Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert Pinsky... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1400030935
    • ASIN: 1400030935
    • ISBN: 1400030935
    • Brand: McClatchy, J. D. (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide

    Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in their writings. Conversely, most contemporary gay poets and playwrights are free from such constraints and have created a remarkable body of work. This reference is a guide to their creative achievements. Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contem... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0313322325
    • ASIN: 0313322325
    • ISBN: 0313322325
    • Manufacturer: Greenwood

  • Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (The Best of the Best)

    Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor—from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Charles Simic, A. R. Am... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1451658885
    • ASIN: 1451658885
    • ISBN: 9781451658880
    • Brand: Scribner Book Company
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Poet X

    Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062662805
    • ASIN: 0062662805
    • ISBN: 0062662805
    • Manufacturer: HarperTeen

  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 pl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399563245
    • ASIN: 0399563245
    • ISBN: 0399563245
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)

    The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501127802
    • ASIN: 1501127802
    • ISBN: 1501127802
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Best American Poetry 2015 (The Best American Poetry series)

    The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for the direction and spirit of American poetry. Each volume in the series presents the year’s most extraordinary new poems and writers. Guest editor Sherman Alexie’s picks for The Best American Poetry 2015 highlight the depth and breadth of the American experience. Culled from electronic and print journal... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1476708207
    • ASIN: 1476708207
    • ISBN: 1476708207
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

    A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five peop... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1401308589
    • ASIN: 1401308589
    • ISBN: 9781401308582
    • Brand: Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

  • Citizen: An American Lyric

    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . .A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1555976905
    • ASIN: 1555976905
    • ISBN: 1555976905
    • Brand: Graywolf Press
    • Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

  • The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

    Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0307278441
    • ASIN: 0307278441
    • ISBN: 0307278441
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Contemporary American Poetry

    This highly respected anthology presents the works of 70 poets who have shaped the contours and direction of mainstream American poetry from 1960 to the present. Designed to provide a rich reading experience for both undergrad and graduate courses, more than 500 selections illustrate the variety and vitality of American poetry over the last few decades. For each poet, the collection features a generous sampling of their work along with a photo, biographical sketches, and bibliographies.

    • ASIN: 0618527850
    • UPC: 046442527859
    • ASIN: 0618527850
    • ISBN: 0618527850
    • Brand: Brand: Cengage Learning
    • Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing

  • Orphan Train

    The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to long-buried questions…now with an extended scene that addresses the number one question readers ask, and an excerpt from Kline’s upcoming novel A Piece of the World.“A lovely novel about the search for family that also happen... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061950726
    • ASIN: 0061950726
    • ISBN: 0061950726
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

    In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of conf... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345505344
    • ASIN: 0345505344
    • ISBN: 0345505344
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • I Am Her Tribe

    #IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers.Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create moments of connection through empowerment and storytelling. Focusing on inspiration, Doby's poetry invites its reader to "Come as you are. Your tribe has arrived.  Your breath can rest here."both softand fiercecan coexist and still be powerful

    • ASIN: 1449495559
    • UPC: 050837422407
    • ASIN: 1449495559
    • ISBN: 1449495559
    • Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing

  • New American Best Friend

    One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus

    • UPC: 851731307

  • W. H. Auden - Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristoc - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24X20.

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  • What Will Suffice : Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry

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  • More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women

    The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name

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  • London Is the Best City in America - eBook

    The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello SunshineEmmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town

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  • Best New Poets 2017 : 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

    Entering its twelfth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made

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  • Rattle Conversations : Interviews with Contemporary American Poets

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  • America's Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology

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  • First American Poetry Disc, Volume II: Contemporary American Poetry

    Miracle's Top five ; Great American Poets

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