The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
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The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
In a career that has spanned over three decades, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately became a celebrated and controversial literary figure. One of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape, Nikki Giovanni's poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which she is beloved and revered.From the sublime Ego Tripping to the tender My House, Nikki Giovanni's mind-speaking, truth-telling poems compassionately evoke our nation's past, present, and future.Read by Nikki Giovanni.
Poetry
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
August Kleinzahler`s collection, THE STRANGE HOURS TRAVELERS KEEP, won the Griffin Prize for Poetry in 2003. The iconoclastic poet (born in New Jersey, living in San Francisco) has been an outspoken critic of much American poetry and of what he feels is the ersatz poetry
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His own poems reflect his fascination with the Beat poets and with jazz (he is also a jazz critic), and he always writes with clear-eyed humor and a refusal to sacrifice realism to sentimentality.
Poetry
New and Selected Poems
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New and Selected Poems
If there's any justice in the poetry world, My Other Self, one of the new poems in this collection, will appear in every future anthology ever compiled, or at least those dealing with car trouble, self-delusion and multiple personalities....Poems make life bearable here, especially big long talky poems that include pain and fear but also surprise, joy, laughter, everything human.
Poetry
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
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Danger On Peaks
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Danger On Peaks
Gary Snyder has a long reputation for writing with lyrical conviction about the natural world--mountains, rivers, forests--and his encounters with it as a hiker, climber, poet, and environmentalist. In DANGER ON PEAKS, Snyder writes mostly about his experiences climbing mountains, including Mount St. Helens on the day the atomic bomb was dropped (with the photo he took while he was there). But he also writes about baking bread, sudden death, his Japanese wife, and a local carwash.
Poetry