From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.
Poems by Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Henrik Nordbrandt, Ryuichi Tamura, Dennis Brutus, and Nguyen Chi Thien.
A moving anthology that traces the advent, progress, and legacy of the Civil War as revealed in the works of famous poets such as Whitman, Melville, Whittier, and Dickinson, as well as combatants on both sides.
James Merrill himself once called his body of work "chronicles of love and loss," and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life--comic and haunting, exotic and domestic--to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. This volume rings together the best of Merrill--from the ...
They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the case - a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite ...
McClatchy, the editor of the Yale Review, offers a diverse selection of work by Yale graduates in this volume of essays, poems, stories, and other works, featuring Jonathan Edwards, Sinclair Lewis, Cole Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Brendan Gill, William F. Buckley, Jr., Paul Monette, Claire Messud, and Chang-rae Lee among other notable figures.
Long before people were hanging their stockings by the chimney with care, poets were spinning the Christian elements of Christmas into verse, as this anthology shows with selections from Milton, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats, and Eliot. Contemporary poets such as Chinua Achebe, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, and Geoffrey Hill are also represented.
Since the publication of "Hazmat," a book about the life of the body--short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize--McClatchy's poetry has increasingly taken up the life of the soul. Now, he returns to themes he has touched on before, but from a new or unusual perspective.
"Here, in a precedent-setting collection, are the master singers."--Carol Muske-Dukes Poetry and music share countless virtues, affecting us in many of the same ways. We respond to their lyricism, move to their rhythms, and anticipate their refrains. In antiquity, the two forms were one and the same, performed together, not as prima donna and ...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss' pioneering collaborator on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. "The Whole ...
From Shakespeare to W.H. Auden, the world's greatest love poems are featured in these collections designed to stir listeners' hearts and memories. The boxed sets each include a 60-page, perfect-bound book with an Introduction by J.D. McClatchy and the complete text of all the poems. Unabridged. 1 CD.
From Shakespeare to W.H. Auden, the world's greatest love poems are featured in these collections designed to stir listeners' hearts and memories. The boxed sets each include a 60-page, perfect-bound book with an Introduction by J.D. McClatchy and the complete text of all the poems. Unabridged. 1 CD.
Referred to as "the most heartbreaking poet of his generation", Jarrell's best poems are about World War II. Many of his poems, including some in this collection, explore the "unknown, unwanted life". This collection includes a 64-page book with the texts of his poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. Abridged. 1 cassette.
Read by the Poet One Cassette, 1 hour The second installment of our exclusive "The Voice of the Poet" series, comprised of rare archival recordings, some never before released, featuring Anne Sexton. This audio production is accompanied by a book containing the text to the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.
The third installment of this exclusive series, comprised of rare archival recordings featuring contemporary poet John Ashbery. The production is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. Abridged. 1 cassette.
The voices of female luminaries--Stein, Bogan, H. D., Millay, and Rukeyser--ring out from the history of poetry on this recording of them reciting their work.
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Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
