My Top 5 Favourite Modern Poets

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

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

    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... [Read More]

  • Exquisite Heats (Salt Modern Poets)

    • ASIN: 1844713113
    • ISBN: 1844713113
    • Brand: Brand: Salt Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Salt Publishing

    The import of sound and music, cultural iconography, and the fine-spun image are pulsing throughout Cherryl Floyd-Miller's third collection of poems, "Exquisite Heats". She explores the infinite manifestations of heat in the human experience. She moves comfortably from issues of public history and personal identity to the musings of revered icons. ... [Read More]

  • The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)

    • ASIN: 0679601082
    • ISBN: 0679601082
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him... [Read More]

  • California's Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology

    • ASIN: 1974273377
    • ISBN: 1974273377
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    In California, hopes and dreams burst forth like rays from the perpetual sunshine that blankets the landscape. They hover and sparkle in the golden sky and manifest themselves artistically in movies, television, fine art… and poetry. And in California’s Best Emerging Poets, 150+ young up-and-coming poets have their own chance to shine. Covering... [Read More]

  • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812976533
    • ISBN: 9780812976533
    • Brand: Unbranded
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time... [Read More]

  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

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

    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 ... [Read More]

  • The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 0307700925
    • ISBN: 0307700925
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

    A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expr... [Read More]

  • FIFTH ANNUAL BEST HOOKED ON HAIKUTM: BALLOT EDITION

    • ASIN: B07VVMNJ6K

    The 100 Best Hooked on Haiku for each year are selected for publication from among those poets who submit their haiku in the Annual Contest. From among them the publisher selects the 10 Best Hooked on Haiku. These are identified in the Ballot Edition of the book. From among the published Best Hooked on Haiku, first, second and third place haiku are... [Read More]

  • The Best Poetry of Our Times (The Great Modern Poets: Book & CD)

    • ASIN: B001OI9LXO
    • Manufacturer: QUERCUS

  • Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #9)

    • ASIN: 1931082588
    • ISBN: 1931082588
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser confronts the turbulent currents of 20th-century history, as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change, and family life. She was a social activist of unwavering commitment, a tireless experimenter who opened fresh forms and fresh subject matter in mod... [Read More]

  • Best American Poetry 2016 (The Best American Poetry series)

    • ASIN: 150112756X
    • ISBN: 9781501127564
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues—guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.The Best American Poetry series is “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and m... [Read More]

  • Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

    • ASIN: 097662964X
    • ISBN: 097662964X
    • Brand: Brand: Samovar Press/Meridian
    • Manufacturer: Samovar Press/Meridian

    Entering its fourth 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 up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the bes... [Read More]

  • Great Modern Poets: The Best Poetry of Our Times

    • ASIN: 1848660006
    • ISBN: 1848660006
    • Manufacturer: Quercus Editions

    "The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations and a historical context for each poet and their work.

  • Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction (Available 2011 Titles Enhanced Web Assign)

    • ASIN: 0538735457
    • ISBN: 9780538735452
    • Brand: Brooks / Cole
    • Manufacturer: Brooks Cole

    David Poole's innovative book prepares students to make the transition from the computational aspects of the course to the theoretical by emphasizing vectors and geometric intuition from the start. Designed for a one- or two-semester introductory course and written in simple, "mathematical English" the book presents interesting examples before abst... [Read More]

  • The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the best poets and poetry since 1900

    • ASIN: 184866866X
    • ISBN: 184866866X
    • Manufacturer: Quercus Publishing

    Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many other major poets of the twentieth and twenty-firs... [Read More]

  • Modern Family: Wit and Wisdom from America's Favorite Family

    • ASIN: 1401324754
    • ISBN: 1401324754
    • Brand: Hyperion Books
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

    The Hilarious New Book by the Writers of the Emmy-winning Hit Show Modern Family Every week, the families of Modern Family have something to learn. Sometimes it's a lesson about parenting. Other times, it's about surviving marriage--or getting along with the dreaded in-laws. But no matter what, the Pritchetts always find a fresh and incredibly funn... [Read More]

  • Letters to a Young Poet (Modern Library)

    • ASIN: 0679642323
    • ISBN: 0679642323
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his own writing, asking for advice on becoming a writer. The two never met, but over ... [Read More]

  • The Other Poems (Fence Modern Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 1934200506
    • ISBN: 1934200506
    • Manufacturer: Fence Books

    "There You Go"At long last, I'm going inwith everybody.EVERYBODY: Everybody, shut up.MONDAY: It’s happening again.MONEY: It's me, isn't it?A SYSTEM: Can I just say:Run free in the wheat, commandant—like a plow with a human face orlike a face plowing down the American plain.These are “talky sonnets” in the vein of John Berryman’s and Ted Ber... [Read More]

  • Mina Loy: Woman and Poet (Man/Woman and Poet Series) (Modern Poet Series)

    • ASIN: 0943373433
    • ISBN: 0943373433
    • Manufacturer: National Poetry Foundation

    The first substantial collection of criticism devoted to this long neglected major Modernist poet.

  • The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Second Edition (Paperbacks in Art History)

    • ASIN: 0674185005
    • ISBN: 0674185005
    • Brand: Brand: Belknap Press
    • Manufacturer: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

    The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others. Here in their own words and art, the principal... [Read More]

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