Fifty Years of American Poetry
Over 200 Important Works by America's Modern Masters
Written by Academy Of American Poets

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Laurel
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-21877-7 (0-440-21877-2)

Introduction by Robert Penn Warren. This commemorative volume celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Academy of American Poets contains over two hundred works from the most notable American poets of the twentieth century. Each of the chancellors, fellows, and award winners of the Academy since its founding in 1934 is represented... Read more >

I Shall Not Be Moved

Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35458-4 (0-553-35458-2)

The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Here are three volumes of classic Maya Angelou -- including her first poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of... Read more >

Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 12, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37985-3 (0-553-37985-2)

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Includes the full texts of... Read more >

Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-25576-8 (0-553-25576-2)

In this moving volume of poetry, Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as she has discovered it in poems such as “Just Give a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie,” “Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well,” “Still I Rise, Shaker,” and “Why Don’t You Sing.”... Read more >

Collected Poems

Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson

Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64350-0 (0-679-64350-8)

Selected by the Contemporary Poetry Review as one of the Best Books of 2007, winning in the category of Book of the Year

To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth... Read more >

Dante
Poet of the Secular World
Written by Erich Auerbach
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Introduction by Michael Dirda

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-219-3 (1-59017-219-1)

A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach’s majestic Mimesis, DANTE: POET OF THE SECULAR WORLD is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, acclaimed by writers and scholars as various as... Read more >

The Song of Songs
The World's First Great Love Poem
Afterword by Robert Alter
Translated by Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch
Foreword by Stephen Mitchell

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7620-5 (0-8129-7620-7)

“Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs.”
–The New York Review of Books

One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the... Read more >

Mirabai
Ecstatic Poems
Translated by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield

Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6387-3 (0-8070-6387-8)

Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her... Read more >

Men in the Off Hours

Written by Anne Carson

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70756-8 (0-375-70756-5)

Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon, Anne Carson sets up startling juxtapositions in the poems and prose of Men in the Off Hours: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virgina Woolf and Thueydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. Revealing in unexpectedness and aware that "the... Read more >

I Ask the Impossible
Poems
Written by Ana Castillo

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72073-1 (0-385-72073-4)

Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as “una storyteller de primera,” and by Barbara Kingsolver in the Los Angeles Times as “impossible to resist,” returns to her first love—poetry—to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual... Read more >

My Wicked Wicked Ways

Written by Sandra Cisneros

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 1992
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-41821-4 (0-679-41821-0)

Here is a collection of poetry by the author of the acclaimed books The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek.  Here are verses comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken.

"All poets would do well to follow the example of Sandra Cisneros, who takes no prisoners and has not made... Read more >

Ballistics
Poems
Written by Billy Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7561-1 (0-8129-7561-8)

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA TODAY, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life—its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >

Horoscopes for the Dead
Poems
Written by Billy Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7562-8 (0-8129-7562-6)

WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss... Read more >

The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75521-7 (0-375-75521-7)

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >

The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-50382-5 (0-375-50382-X)

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >

The Inferno

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49698-8 (0-385-49698-2)

Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first part of Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible... Read more >

Poetry for the Earth

Written by Sara Dunn

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: March 17, 1992
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90599-9 (0-449-90599-3)

The poetic concern for nature has been, in the words of Anna Akhmatova, "wild in our breast for centuries." Poetry for the Earth collects an astonishing diversity of poetic response to the environment, from eras and places as diverse as classical Greece, Elizabethan England, 17th century Japan, contemporary Africa, and modern... Read more >

The Poetry of Zen

Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)

A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >

Cold Mountain Poems
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J. P. Seaton

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-646-8 (1-59030-646-5)

The incomparable poetry of Han Shan and his sidekick Shih-Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, newly translated and annotated by premier translator J. P. Seaton.

Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, China’s “outsider” poets Han Shan (known as Cold... Read more >

Writing Begins with the Breath
Embodying Your Authentic Voice
Written by Laraine Herring

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-473-0 (1-59030-473-X)

Laraine Herring’s distinctive new approach to the writing craft provides a welcome jump-start for new writers—and will open up a whole world of creativity for people who may not have considered themselves writers before—while also providing keen insights into the craft for seasoned writers. Her secret is to move the focus... Read more >

Odes
With the Latin Text
Written by Horace
Translated by James Michie
Introduction by Gregson Davis

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75902-4 (0-375-75902-6)

Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horace’s Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross, make the “commonplace notable, even luminous.” This edition reproduces the highly lauded translation by James Michie. “For almost forty years,” poet and literary critic John Hollander notes, “James Michie’s brilliant... Read more >

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75669-6 (0-375-75669-8)

“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... Read more >

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

Written by Maxine Hong Kingston

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45459-1 (0-307-45459-2)

In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral... Read more >

Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth

Written by Gerrit Lansing

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-754-0 (1-55643-754-4)

This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.

A distinguished figure of American letters, whose... Read more >

Incredible Good Fortune
New Poems
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-422-8 (1-59030-422-5)

Incredible Good Fortune is Ursula K. Le Guin's sixth collection of poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005. These poems by the celebrated author of Always Coming Home and The Language of the Night showcase Le Guin's many facets as a writer. Passionate, humanitarian, and sensuously aware of the world's vitality... Read more >