This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from <i>Hello: A Journal </i>(1978) to <i>Life & Death</i> (1998) and <i>If I were writing this</i> (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his ...
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, <I>Sleeping with the Dictionary, </I>is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, <I>Roget's Thesaurus </I>and <I>The American Heritage Dictionary. </I>In her menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while <I>Roget </I>seems obsessed with categories an ...
In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now ...
The Book of Isaac is a sequence of 56 ‘distressed’, or damaged, sonnets in which Aidan Semmens endeavors to distil something of the Russian-Jewish experience from the history of his own family, in particular that of his great-grandfather, the economist, lawyer, journalist and socialist Isaac Hourwich. ...
& in Open, Marvel grapples with wonder in everyday existence. A sense of quietness through seasonal change threads the interlaced contemplations in the collection, which approach the twice-removed space we occupy from the physical world. The act of mind and body is experienced as a journey for both writer and reader. How we are all elements in fall. How we are all purpose. How what makes us connects us. How there are lovely works beyond us, ...
