Earth, My Likeness

Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

Written by Walt Whitman, Edited by Howard Nelson, Introduction by Howard Nelson

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While Walt Whitman is best known as America’s first great urban poet, he was also a gifted nature poet, as the selections in this book show. Here his celebration of the “body electric” from Leaves of Grass expands into a celebration of an equally electrifying nature as he memorializes the seashore...

The Intent On

Collected Poems 1962-2006

Written by Kenneth Irby

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***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award

Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of...

Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth

Written by Gerrit Lansing

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This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.

A distinguished figure of American letters, whose...

The Odyssey

Written by Homer, Translated by Charles Stein

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Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer...

Dreams of the Presidents

From George Washington to George W. Bush

Written by Charles Barasch

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The stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...

Poems for New Orleans

Written by Edward Sanders

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The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...

Belonging

New Poetry by Iranians Around the World

Edited by Niloufar Talebi

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Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran...

Westport Poems

Written by Jonathan Towers

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A beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner...

Homeowner Haiku

Written by Sherry Karver and Jerry Ratch

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Written by a Realtor who is also a poet and novelist, Homeowner Haiku elegantly encapsulates the often enervating process of the real estate transaction. These brief flashes, a perfect calming gift for anyone buying or selling a home, satisfy and challenge the reader with vivid images and pithy insights, as in...

The Healing Spirit of Haiku

Written by David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, Illustrated by Arthur Okamura

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For David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, haiku represents a healing union of intuition and sensation, past and present, self and other, ordinary and extraordinary, and current and ancient memories. In this simple, compelling book, the authors, who have lived and traveled extensively in Japan, offer 172 haikus that resonate with...

Gravedigger's Birthday

Poems

Written by BJ Ward

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"In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the bright up-and-coming voices of his generation."
—Stephen Dunn, Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Waking Life

Written by Andrea Siegel

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These moving poems map the internal geographies of desire and memory. The 19 poems in Amie Siegel's first collection were composed during her extended stays in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and the American Southwest. They evoke the ways we derive meaning from our contact with other places and demonstrate...

17 Love Poems with No Despair

Written by BJ Ward

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17 Love Poems with No Despair resounds with the voice of a clear, powerful speaker. Ward does not naively deny despair but rather refuses it, making a case to the beloved and to the reader that proffers love as an antidote. This book is an offering of passion wrought with charm...

Love's Glory

Re-creations of Rumi

Written by Andrew Harvey

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In Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around crucial mystical themes: nondual bliss, ordeal, ecstatic recognition...

Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands

Written by BJ Ward

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In BJ Ward's Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, each poem is a journey filled with discovery as we travel roads of America and the heart, trusting always Ward's steady hand upon the wheel. The poems are richly diverse, from 'The Dying of the Light,' with its insistent pathos, or...