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2010
C.D. Wright.One With Others: [a little book of her days]
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2009
Rae Armantrout. Versed
Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout's experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity, shot through with her signature wit and stark unsentimental thinking. Together, the poems of Versed part us from our assumptions about reality, revealing the gaps and fissures in our emotional and linguistic constructs, showing us ourselves where we are most exposed.
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2008
Juan Felipe Herrera. Half the World in Light
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2007
Mary Jo Bang. Elegy: Poems
Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, "Elegy," chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor for the most profound and private grief, the poems in "Elegy "confront, in stark terms and with a resilient voice, how memory haunts the living and brings the dead back to life. Within these intimate and personal poems is a persistently urgent, and deeply touching, examination of grief itself.
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2006
Troy Jollimore. Tom Thomson in Purgatory
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2005
- Jack Gilbert. Refusing Heaven
- In Refusing Heaven, Jack Gilbert writes about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings.
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2004
Adrienne Richl. The School Among the Ruins
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2003
Susan Stewart. Columbarium
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2002
B.H. Fairchild. Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
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2001
Albert Goldbarth. Saving Lives: Poems
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2000
Judy Jordan. Carolina Ghost Woods
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1999
Ruth Stone. Ordinary Words
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1998
Marie Ponsot. The Bird Catcher
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1997
- Charles Wright. Black Zodiac
- These are poems suffused with spiritual longing, lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality that also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Entering by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal a truth much larger than the quotidian happening that engendered it. The result is an astonisning, flexible poetry that, as Helen Vendler has observed, makes Wright a poet who "sounds like nobody else".
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1996
Robert Hass. Sun Under Wood
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1995
- William Matthews. Time and Money
- A collection by a worldly and cynical writer addresses his lifetime losses and loves, offering his observations on such topics as musicians and money.
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1994
- Mark Rudman. Rider
- Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.
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1993
- Mark Doty. My Alexandria
- A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection.
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1992
- Hayden Carruth. Collected Shorter Poems
- Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 presents all the lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poetry the poet has chosen from the past forty-five years, including a section of new poems not found in his previous twenty-two books.
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1991
Albert Goldbarth. Heaven and Earth
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1990
Amy Gerstler. Bitter Angel
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1989
Rodney Jones. Transparent Jestures
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1988
- Donald Hall. The One Day
- Hall celebrates his sixtieth birthday with the most powerful poem he has ever written, a book-length work that evokes the kind of public power associated with Hall's teacher Archibald MacLeish.
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1987
- C.K. Williams. Flesh and Blood
- In this collection, consisting of 130 8-line stanzas, these long, breathy lines make his poems lean toward a prosy, conversational voice.
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1986
- Edward Hirsch. Wild Gratitude
- From its opening epigraph, On Love takes the subjects of and fusion, autonomy and blur. The initial up separateness progression of fifteen shapely and passionate lyrics (including a sonnet about the poet at seven, a villanelle about the loneliness of a pioneer woman on the prairie, and an elegy for Amy Clampitt) opens out into a sequence of meditations about love.
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1985
- Louise Gluck. The Triumph of Achilles
- Gluck shows the reader what she wants us to see through her poetry.
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1984
- Sharon Olds. The Dead and the Living
- Olds explores the world of familial relationships.
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1983
James Merrill. The Changing Light at Sandover
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1982
Katha Pollitt. Antarctic Traveler
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1981
A.R. Ammons. A Coast of Trees
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