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Whitman is one of those enduring American icons who seem to sum up and rebel against our way of life all at once — especially with these lovely, celebratory, triumphant poems. This is technically a novel in verse, but you know what? Carson is always exciting, and here she is at her best. This collection might just be the end-all-be-all of elegies.
In these wild, spinning poems, grief is a poison, and words are — possibly, barely, strangely — the cure. Gorgeous and brutal, this book will sink to the bottom of your heart and whisper there for a long, long time. Each poem is an interview from the bleak near-future, during a tour of a fictional city called the Desert. A genre-bending, important book, political and personal and not a little outrageous.
Sometimes they have zombies. Despite him being like, so old, Ovid is funnier and sexier than you think.
Hejinian has the uncanny ability to turn the ordinary observation or idle musing into the profound. Her landmark work is a poetic autobiography, a gorgeous, funny tableau of experiences and memories, a life in fragments. Break it up into single words, charge them to combination.
But of course — some of the best love poetry ever written by one of the masters and creators of the English language. The book-length title poem in this collection is widely considered one of the best long postmodern poems — a true masterpiece. The collection itself won a Pulitzer in Ashbery is one of the all-time greats. This collection, which won the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in , is also likely his most beloved, and for good reason.
This is an astounding work, imaginative, strange, funny, experimental, flexible, and deft beyond belief. Hey, another Pulitzer Prize winner. This powerful book looks up to the heavens and down at the earth and investigates the spaces in between, sometimes even taking up the voice of some kind of god: This book-length poem investigates nature in both its fragility and rigidity, taking as its structure both the Fibonacci sequence and the alphabet.
It is the work of a truly brilliant writer. He does not make aesthetic mistakes. Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry for science fiction fans!
Who knew that the poetry of a 13th-century Sufi mystic would resonate so much with contemporary Americans? Somehow, the man is a touchstone that keeps on delivering. If that sets you to giggles, buy this book. The winner of the National Book Award for Poetry is a clear-eyed, incredibly powerful ode to what it means to be alive. Defender of the Faith: In Parliament recognized it as an official title of the English monarch. Sheba 's Queen to Judah 's Court: On the Fair Weather just at Coronation.
April 23, coronation of Charles II.
An interval, interlude, or hiatus during the coronation of Charles II, there being rain both prior to and after the event. Cannons and in Fire-works: Thunder and lightning of post-coronation storm.
Refer to the Biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea Exod. To the truly noble Mr. Friendship's Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia. Philips's name for Anne Owen, later Lady Dungannon.
A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. To my dear Sister, Mrs. Orinda's sister-in-law, Cicely Philips Line 6. Are but a troublesome, and empty noise: