The Collected Poems
Title | The Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Plath |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0062669451 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Title | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde PDF eBook |
Author | Audre Lorde |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2000-02-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393254402 |
A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best contemporary poets. . . . Her poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving."—Chuckanut Reader Magazine "What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius . . . you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and beauty of this volume."—Out Magazine
Collected Poems
Title | Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Larkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN | 9780571153862 |
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended.
Directed by Desire
Title | Directed by Desire PDF eBook |
Author | June Jordan |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | 640 |
Release | 2012-12-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1619320800 |
“Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.”—Booklist Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan’s -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan’s ten volumes, as well as dozens of “last poems” that were never published in Jordan’s lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs. As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan “wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent power—of the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.” From “These Poems”: These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children’s books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939
Title | The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | William Carlos Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 604 |
Release | 1991-09-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0811224597 |
Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—." So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
Title | The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962 PDF eBook |
Author | William Carlos Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 580 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811211888 |
Collection of poems of William Carlos Williams from 1939-1962
The Collected Poems
Title | The Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Plath |
Publisher | New York : Harper & Row |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
A complete collection of Sylvia Plath's poetry.