One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became uniquely American. Written in a pure, uninhibited style with a joyous voice, Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece.
American Poetry
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- Author:Meyers, SusanSummary:
Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her...
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Starting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this anthology captures the enormous talent and passion of African American poets.
- Author:Dameron, DéLana R. A.Summary:
DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry...
- Author:Shapero, NatalieSummary:
Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon."--Houston Chronicle "Shapero's poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things."-Volta Thought-...
- Author:Evans, WorthySummary:
Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous outpouring of poems, pent up during...
- Author:Dickinson, EmilySummary:
Four well-known actresses read these poems by this great American poet. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems convey a penetrating vision of the natural world as well as the most profound human truths.
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The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson,...
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"Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of...
- Author:Porco, AlessandroSummary:
Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco.
Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal...
- Author:Plath, SylviaSummary:
A collection of poems.
- Author:Collins, BillySummary:
Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic...
- Author:Hanna, GabbieSummary:
Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children's verses to a sophisticated confessional...
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The only authorized audio companion to the widely respected Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, this audio collection includes the greatest poems of the English language, ranging from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake,...