Mother
A Cradle to Hold Me
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $9.95

Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry collections, including I Shall Not... Read more >

Dance Me to the End of Love

Written by Leonard Cohen
Illustrated by Henri Matisse

Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $19.95

10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely... Read more >

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

Written by J.D. McClatchy

Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: June 25, 1996
Price: $18.00

This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and... Read more >

Love's Ripening
Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $14.00

Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on... Read more >

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Written by Wallace Stevens

Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $16.99

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:

- "Harmonium"
- "Ideas of Order"
- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"
- "Parts of the World"
- "Transport Summer"
- "The Auroras of Autumn"
- "The Rock" Read more >

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edited by Nancy Milford

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $13.95

One of America’s most celebrated poets—and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923—Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poet’s unique spirit in works like Renascence and Other... Read more >

Collected Poems

Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson

Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00

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 century.

This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections... 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: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $14.95

Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T’ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and monastery walls, calling... Read more >

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
Poems and Essays
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $14.00

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit... Read more >

Thirst
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Hardcover, 88 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2006
Price: $25.00

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the 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... Read more >