"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work...

A volume culled from the National Book Award-winning poet's entire half-century career is published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "Howl" and offers insight into his influence as an iconic Beat generation writer

Features forty new poems that continue to express the poet's fascination and love affair with the natural world. "Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's...

This edition combines 'The Dream Songs, ' awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and 'His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, ' which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs.

An anthology of poems of the twentieth century, from influential and lesser-known poets, as well as Native American and folk poetry.

Louise Gluck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and crude. The Seven Ages is Gluck's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible--an act...

Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work--Publisher's description.

Louise Gluck says in one of her essays that every end of a book is for her a "conscious diagnostic act, a swearing off" in which she discerns the themes, habits, and preoccupations of the previous volume to define the tasks of the next. The First Four Books of Poems shows this poet in the conscious evolution she describes, marking time in changes. Readers will hear specifics of sequence: where the ferocious tension of her first book, Firstborn, moves...

A collection of twenty-two poems and translations accompanied by thirty-seven riddles translated from the Latin.