Stag's Leap
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that...
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The Autobiography of Red
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in...
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $15.99
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Fifteen Poems
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $1.99
This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.
Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him...
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The Colossus
and Other Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $9.99
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy...
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House of Light
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991
Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
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...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections
The Apple That Astonished Paris,
Questions About Angels,
The Art of Drowning, and
Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic...
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Thirst
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $15.00
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and...
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