Awesome Poetry Anthologies

Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition) by Red Pine

Poetry is China's greatest art, and for the past eight more...0 points

Poetry is China's greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country's most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive notes by renowned translator, Red Pine. Over one hundred poets are represented in this bilingual edition, including many of China's celebrated poets: Li Pai, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Wang Po, and Ou-yang Hsiu.Poems of the Masters was com...0 points

An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English

Spanning more than a century of verse-writing, thi more...0 points

Spanning more than a century of verse-writing, this comprehensive anthology reveals the richness, variety, and range of styles found in New Zealand poetry in English. Established figures such as Curnow, Baxter, and Tuwhare are given strong selections and contemporary poets are generously represented, while previously neglected figures such as Jessie Mackay are rescued from obscurity. With an eye to both fairness and range, the editors have compiled a collection of New Zealand poetry remarkable a...0 points

Modern Russian poetry: an anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of t...0 points

Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology

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Providing a unique window into a poetic tradition little known and little understood in the West, Contemporary East European Poetry features one hundred and thirty poets from ten countries, with works translated from fifteen languages. Emery George, himself a distinguished poet and translator, here brings together over five hundred poems expertly rendered into beautiful, English verse by ninety translators, often working in collaboration with the original author. Represented are poets from many....0 points

The Poets and Poetry of Europe by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cornelius Conway Felton

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of o...0 points

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

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Anthology of Modern American Poetry contains more than 750 poems by 161 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. Spanning a period from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie, this collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively. It presents not only the canonical poetry of the last hundred years but also numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. Uniquely comprehensive, Anthology of Modern Am...0 points

Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (The Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Latin Americans have written some of the world's f more...0 points

Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary production has never been gathered into a single volume that attempts to represent the full range and the most important writers--until now. Here, under one cover, are the major poets and their major works, which appear both in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and in excellent English tr...0 points

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010 proudly continues a series that kicked off with a bang in 2008 under the stewardship of esteemed series editor, Molly Peacock, and inaugural guest editor, award-winning poet Stephanie Bolster. The 2009 edition was expertly curated by A.F. Moritz, winner of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. And this year, Lorna Crozier has chosen the fifty best Canadian poems published in Canadian literary journals and magazines in the preceding year. With this anthology, rea...0 points

Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry

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%uFEFF%uFEFFThe first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to....0 points

Echoes Of Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry (Ohio RIS Africa Series) by Don Burness

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Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology

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This anthology is a survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets and going backward in time to the early colonial period. An extensive selection is provided of the major poets Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A. D. Hope, and Kenneth Slessor.0 points

From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry

-- John Ashbery

Heartquake: Songs for Healing: Prose and Poetry Anthology by Oladayo Sanusi

The life we live. The journey we make. Words of inspiration more...0 points

The life we live. The journey we make. Words of inspiration brought to you in a vivid package of hope. In a collection of prose and poetry from across the globe, by those that are part of the journey. A synopsis of the time we live, the journey we make; our own very self-healing process. Featuring: Olajide Williams, MD Olubanshile Abass Mimiko, MD Jeanty Francois, PA Oyekunle Oyekanmi, MD Jose Zamora, MD Jack Shirk Kathleen Kearney Karl Weyrauch, MD Oladayo A. Sanusi, MD0 points

The Poetry Of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma And Healing In Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney And Siegfried Sassoon by Daniel Hipp

The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and S more...0 points

The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for "shell shock" in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war's final year, his...0 points

Good Poems for Hard Times

Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public more...0 points

Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices gathered in this collection will be more t...0 points

Cries of The Spirit by Marilyn Sewell

Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this more...0 points

Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this rich and diverse anthology of more than 300 poems celebrates the sacredness of women's lives: the experiences that shape them, the relationships that sustain them, and the legacy that they build. In these poems, woman grow old, defy conventions and limits, fall in love and out again, wonder at their own bodies, and sing of the earth and sky. They pray, give birth, and make sense of suffering. As Sewell explains, "Those who write these verses do....0 points

Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation

"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and more...1 point

"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" -Mary OliverThis luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life...1 point

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade chall more...0 points

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, and Henry David Thoreau.0 points

Good Poems

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on more...0 points

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt...0 points

100 Essential Modern Poems by Women

Like the widely praised 100 Essential Modern Poems more...0 points

Like the widely praised 100 Essential Modern Poems, this lively, up-to-date guide to modern poetry is filled with wisdom and insights that will delight, engage, and inspire readers of all ages and interests. This bountiful collection presents memorable poems written in the English language over the past 150 years--masterworks and new classics by great authors from Emily Dickinson to Rita Dove, Marianne Moore and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maxine Kumin and Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath and Linda Past...0 points

Cries of The Spirit by Marilyn Sewell

Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this more...0 points

Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this rich and diverse anthology of more than 300 poems celebrates the sacredness of women's lives: the experiences that shape them, the relationships that sustain them, and the legacy that they build. In these poems, woman grow old, defy conventions and limits, fall in love and out again, wonder at their own bodies, and sing of the earth and sky. They pray, give birth, and make sense of suffering. As Sewell explains, "Those who write these verses do...0 points

A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women

Women poets from around the world are gathered here more...0 points

Women poets from around the world are gathered here to raise their voices together, to speak out against violence and its calamitous effect upon the human soul. Yet there is also a thread of resilience here, an undercurrent of hope that points to the human ability to move on, to build a new life out of a shattered past. Each poem addresses difficult issues concerning conflict and the lives of women. Some are spirited statements that demonstrate courage even in brutal circumstances; others rage at...0 points

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass) by Various

In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-b more...0 points

In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz-brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis's loving observations of nature through the eyes of Cathol...0 points

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women by Andrea Hollander Budy

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When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women is the first major collection of its kind in a generation. It features 97 of the most exciting poets in America including Kim Addonizio, Natasha Trethewey, Robin Becker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Emerson, Lynn Emanuel, Mary Oliver, Jane Mead, Mary Ruefle, Kay Ryan, and Pattiann Rogers. The collection includes a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of each poet.0 points

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 by Michael S. Harper, Anthony Walton

"Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection more...0 points

"Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers an astonishing range of styles and techniques. This extraordinary body of poetry is the flowering of an artistic tradition established earlier in this century by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes...0 points

Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women's Poetry by Anne Marie Fowler (Editor)

Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary more...0 points

Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women's Poetry includes some of the best poetry available in the US today. The voices of these Asian American female poets resonate loudly and melodically. These poets mine below the surface to engage with the world in depth and they address the world by disrupting the status quo. Their work is informed by experience, wonder, consideration, angst, and terror-filled concern for the global community. Innovative and....0 points

Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry

This volume is the first-ever collection of poems more...0 points

This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. Nicholas Gage, best-selling Author of Eleni and A Place for Us, praises the collection as follows: "Pomegranate Seeds is a rich and evocative mosaic in verse of the Greek-American experience that has much to offer not only Greeks and Americans but every traveler in that mysterious and tumultuous voyage called life."0 points

The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry

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In the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville suggested that the poetry of the new American democratic state, free from the staggering weight of centuries of European aristocracy and tradition, would focus on "man alone ... his passions, his doubts, his rare properties and inconceivable wretchedness." For hundreds of years, American poets have presented their various images of the land and its people. But what is "American poetry?" Is there truly such a thing as an American poetic tradition,....0 points

Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry by Regie Cabico

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The best poetry being written and performed today in Canada and the United States is by an emerging generation of poets who "fuse" the worlds of the oral and the written traditions. These are poets comfortable in print or squinting under the stage lights, whose work crosses all boundaries--performance, spoken word, Gen-X, Web-page poems, slam and MTV-style tele-poetics. Poetry Nation is the first anthology to comprehensively trace the roots of performance and spoken word --from the Beat Generati...0 points

The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

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A galaxy of writers epitomizes the state of American poetry at the century's close.0 points

New To North America: Writing by U.S. Immigrants, Their Children and Grandchildren 2nd Ed.

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Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. NEW TO NORTH AMERICA is a collection of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir that documents the experiences and contributions of three critical generations from immigrant to second generation American. While the complex subject of immigration has been oversimplified by national headlines, the voices of immigrants have often been excluded from the debate. Our authors examine issues of identity, memory, assimilation, language, acceptance, struggle and the p...0 points

Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry

A powerful collection of thematically arranged poe more...0 points

A powerful collection of thematically arranged poems, dealing with what it means to be an American, offers a multi-cultural gathering of poets, including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they grapple with our country's myths.0 points

Art & Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry

A companion volume to Art & Love presents poems more...1 point

A companion volume to Art & Love presents poems that touch upon the magnificence of the world's wild places and includes works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.1 point

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz selects and introduc more...0 points

Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz selects and introduces 300 of his favorite poems in this Â"magnificent collectionÂ" that ranges Â"widely across time and continents, from eighth century China to contemporary americancaÂ" (San Francisco Chronicle).0 points

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time

This indispensable volume contains more than 1,600 more...0 points

This indispensable volume contains more than 1,600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures and spans a period of more than 4,000 years. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the "Carmina Burana"; from the magnificence of Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the revelatory verse of Emily...0 points

The Haiku Anthology

Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth more...0 points

Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery--in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revised and updated, comprises 850 haiku and senryu (a related gen...0 points

The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

When I was a kid, this high-level but general anth more...0 points

When I was a kid, this high-level but general anthology opened the door to the versatility of poetry-and kept me writing it.0 points

Detached Retinas by Thomas L. Vaultonburg

Detached Retinas is the second book of Thomas L. V more...0 points

Detached Retinas is the second book of Thomas L. Vaultonburg, one of the most innovative and widely published poets of the younger generation. The poems herein are energetic, fun and wildly original. Vaultonburg was heralded by both Ginsberg and Bukowski as one of the emerging poets on the American scene. His work can be mistaken for no one else's.0 points