Best of
Poetry

1985

The Collected Poems, 1957-1982


Wendell Berry - 1985
    Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work: land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of values that endure, of earthy truths and universal imagery. His vision is one of hope and memory, of determination and faithfulness. For this far-reaching yet portable volume, Berry has chosen nearly two hundred poems from his previous eight collections.

Winter Stars


Larry Levis - 1985
    In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances.  What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a “representative life” of our time.

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death


Yoel Hoffmann - 1985
    Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined—from the poems of longing of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

My Emily Dickinson


Susan Howe - 1985
    It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson as a lover of games and words.

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho


Matsuo Bashō - 1985
    His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.

Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku


William J. Higginson - 1985
    It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku represented (Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki) but also several major Western authors not commonly known to have written haiku.

The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems


Lorine Niedecker - 1985
    Edited by Cid Corman. The section headings in this book of poems are all vintage Niedecker, but they stake out the poems in three large masses. The earlier work-apprentice to Zukofsky but finding her voice; the central work--when she discovers her range and depth; the final work--much of it known posthumously--showing how she was probing other voices into a larger plenum. One's first impulse, after awe, on reading THE GRANITE PAIL is a double dose of shame: shame at not being more familiar with her work; shame at ever having complained of the narrowness of one's life--Carolyn Kizer.

Selected Poems


Rabindranath Tagore - 1985
    His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as 'Earth' and 'In the Eyes of a Peacock' present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in 'Recovery - 14', convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the world. And exuberant works such as 'New Rain' and 'Grandfather's Holiday' describe Tagore's sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a grandchild play.

Collected Poems, 1948-1984


Derek Walcott - 1985
    "Walcott's virutes as a poet are extraordinary," James Dickey wrote in The New York Times Book Review. "He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts . . . Walcott is spontaneous, headlong, and inventive beyond the limits of most other poets now writing."

Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido


Raúl Zurita - 1985
    It was filled with hundreds of niches, one over the other. There is a country in each one; they're like boys, they're dead." In this landmark poem, written at the height of the Pinochet dictatorship, major Chilean poet Raul Zurita protests with ferocious invention the extinguishment of a generation and the brutalization of a nation. Of the role of poetry and of his own treatment by the military under this regime, Zurita has said, "You see, the only thing that told me that I wasn't crazy, that I wasn't living in a nightmare, was this file of poems, and then when they threw them into the sea, then I understood exactly what was happening." This elegy refuses to be an elegy, refuses to let the Disappeared disappear.

The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye


Merrit Malloy - 1985
    From the author of My Song For Him Who Never Sang to Me and We Hardly See Each Other Any More, another intimate, illustrated collection of verse to share with those we love.

Flower Fairies of the Wayside


Cicely Mary Barker - 1985
    This title includes stories such as: The White Bind-Weed Fairy, The Jack-Go-To-Bed-at-Noon Fairy and The Red Clover Fairy.

Selected Poems, 1963-1983


Charles Simic - 1985
    Simic is a master of the absurd and unexpected.

Elegies


Douglas Dunn - 1985
    Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March 1981.

You Will Hear Thunder: poems


Anna Akhmatova - 1985
    As D.M. Thomas points out in his introduction, practically none of her poetry was published between 1923 and 1940. Her poetic range was wide, from the transparent anonymity of “Requiem” to the symphonic complexity of “Poem without a Hero.” She was revered and loved not only by the best of her fellow poets but by the ordinary people of Russia: five thousand mourners, mostly the young, crowded to her requiem mass in a Leningrad church.You Will Hear Thunder brings together for the first time all D.M. Thomas’s translations of Anna Akhmatova’s poems. They were very highly praised on their separate appearances in 1976 and 1979. John Bayley called them “a mastery achievement,” and said of Thomas that “he has profound reverence and affection for the original;” while Donald David wrote that Thomas’s translation was “The first version to explain to me why Akhmatova was so much esteemed by those great poets, Pasternak and Mandelstam and Tsvetaeva.” It is good to have these powerful, noble and compassionate poems in one set of covers.

The King of Time


Velimir Khlebnikov - 1985
    Hailed by his contemporaries and by later writers and scholars as the creative genius behind the Russian Futurist movement, Khlebnikov is famous more for his inaccessibility than for the excellence of what he actually produced. Even Russians are generally baffled by him.Now, in a powerful American rendition, we are given access to the strange and beautiful world of Khlebnikov, "the word's wild highwayman." Trained in the natural sciences and mathematics and by temperament an artist, Khlebnikov thought he had discovered the Laws of Time and Tables of Destiny, by which enlightened humans could live in harmony with themselves and with nature. He coined the terms "Futurian" and "Presidents of Planet Earth" for himself and his friends, and he devoted all of his short, restless life to finding a language appropriate to his vision. Experiments with words became magical paths to a reinvigorated future, and produced some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language.These goals and researches were variously embodied as well in stories, plays, and visionary essays in which Khlebnikov advances architectural plans for mobile cities, a new alphabet based on universal meanings of sounds, and communication by way of vast television networks. The result is poetry of startling originality, modernity, and linguistic virtuosity--a true challenge to translators and one that has been met brilliantly here by Paul Schmidt and Charlotte Douglas.The King of Time is a representative sampling of Khlebnikov's writings, taken from the translation of his complete works prepared under the auspices of the Dia Art Foundation. It includes many pieces, among them the full text of the astounding poem-play Zangezi, never before translated. General readers will be introduced to the legendary Khlebnikov, and cognoscenti will applaud the inventiveness of the rendering.

Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil


A.K. Ramanujan - 1985
    K. Ramanujan has been recognised as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennia ago. This edition contains a new preface by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan.

Hostage


Charles Bukowski - 1985
    This program of Bukowski's raucous poetry, recorded live in 1980, takes as its theme the poet's intimate relationship with the urban underbelly.

that they were at the beach


Leslie Scalapino - 1985
    The poems reflect each other like crystals and change like highly polished glass illuminated by a shifting light. They follow the mind from thought and observation to afterthought, reflection, and obsession.Poetry.

20th Century Poetry and Poetics


Gary Geddes - 1985
    The greatly anticipated fourth edition of the anthology was published in the Spring of 1996 and the number of poets included was expanded by more than fifty per cent. The twenty-five poets new to this edition - - twelve women and thirteen men - are from Canada, the UK, the United States, and the Commonwealth. The list of new poets include Nobel Prize winner Dereck Walcott; well-known American poets Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Robert Hass, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Philip Levine, and Rita Dove; Irish poet Eavan Boland; Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Patrick Lane, Sharon Thesen, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Don McKay, Daphne Marlatt, Gary Geddes, Bronwen Wallace, Robert Kroetsch, Lorna Crozier, Tim Lilburn, Roo Borson, and bpNichol. The book provides in-depth selections from the work of each poet, and where possible, places the poems in the significant context of the poets' own views on poetics. In addition, there are useful biographies and comments on the poets in the form of headnotes that appear at the beginning of each poet's work.

My Mother's Body: Poems


Marge Piercy - 1985
    Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification."The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume.Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father.Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother.In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.

Tennyson: Selected Poetry


Alfred Tennyson - 1985
    This edition of his selected poems includes classics like: - " The Lady of Shalott" - " Charge of the Light Brigade" - " Maud" - " Morte d'Arthur" - " Ulysses" - " The Lotus Eaters" Elegantly packaged with a ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addition to any poetry library.

Margaret and Dusty


Alice Notley - 1985
    "Notley is the foremost practitioner of the New York School of poetry. Heir to the likes of Frank O'Hara and widow of the larger-than-life Ted Berrigan, Notley has over the course of her last few books finally hit her stride.... Notley writes from an accumulation of meaning. Similar to the techniques of the abstract expressionists, it is in that heavily built-up surface that we find the depth of meaning.... Some poems are so right, so perfectly conceived, it's a wonder that anyone would write in any other way"—John Stickney, The Columbus Dispatch. "These poems, for the most part imaginary conversations with herself, are energetic, good clean fun. They also contain some serious under currents. At their best, they tease readers into a new way of viewing their surroundings"—Library Journal.

The Wounded Breakfast


Russell Edson - 1985
    

A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of W.B. Yeats


W.B. Yeats - 1985
    Although she repeatedly refused to marry Yeats, Maud would become the object of his passion and his poetry. The emotional power in many of Yeats' early poems is shaped by the one-sidedness of his affair with Maud, but the poems themselves remain hopeful and bitter-sweet, pure in their language and attitudes about love.The forty-one poems collected in A Poet to his Beloved represent some of Yeats's most evocative and passionate early love poems. These versed are simple, lyrical, and often dreamy, and they speak knowingly of innocence and beauty, passion and desire, devotion and the fear of rejection.

Exile and Return: Selected Poems 1967-1974


Yiannis Ritsos - 1985
    

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Poems


Juana Inés de la Cruz - 1985
    Bilingual edition in Spanish and English. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Margaret Sayers Peden, who is well known and respected for her translations of Fuentes, Neruda, Quiroga, and Paz, has made an admirable selection of poems that includes romances, redondillas, epigrams, decimas, sonnets, silvas, villancicos, and two excerpts from Sor Juana's theater. The introduction and notes provide the necessary context for those unfamiliar with the poet's life and times. "Her sprightly English versions of these technically exacting poems...would, I am sure of it, have pleased Sor Juana herself"--Alastair Reid.

Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry: With ‘Tosa Nikki’ and ‘Shinsen Waka’


Helen Craig McCullough - 1985
    

Letter to an Imaginary Friend: Parts I-IV


Thomas McGrath - 1985
    One of the English language's great poems available for the first time in one volume.

AntiPoems: New and Selected


Nicanor ParraWilliam Carlos Williams - 1985
    S. Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In work spanning 30 years (1955-1985), Parra, the pioneer of "antipoetry," remains fresh, bold, and inventive, deftly and humorously subverting convention. Editor David Unger brings together poems from Parra's groundbreaking collection Poemas y antipoemas, the witty aphorisms of Artefactos, and his original and uncompromising later work.

Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet


Wallace Tripp - 1985
    "The illustrations contain caricatures, puns, ridiculous juxtapositions, and frequent references to other artists . . . Just identifying the various characters can furnish hours of amusement." -- Horn Book

Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music


Bill Holm - 1985
    

A Reading 1 7


Beverly Dahlen - 1985
    "Only a feminist could have seen the point at which the form of the journal and the tradition of the American longpoem meet. Infusing each with the critical introspection of psychoanalysis, this first volume of A READING challenges every myth surrounding Literature. Its shape that of one life intensely witnessed, A READING proves that poetry can still be an act of extraordinary courage, intellectual honesty, and commitment to humankind" -Ron Silliman.

Collected Poems


Norman MacCaig - 1985
    All are marked by the wit and the wisdom, the clarity of language and observation, and the masterly lightness of touch that have earned him his reputation as a great poet. 'A book full of delight , love, decency, wit and wisdom. Above all, it is a book of life. It deserves to be called a classic. 'Douglas Dunn

Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People


Kenneth Koch - 1985
    Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Places/Everyone


Jim Daniels - 1985
    Daniels, his brothers, his father, and his grandfather have all worked in the auto industry, and that background seeps into nearly all these poems.The first of the book's three sections sketches out this background, then moves into a neighborhood full of people whose lives are so linked to the ups and downs of the auto industry that they have to struggle to find their own lives; in "Still Lives in Detroit, #2," Daniels writes, "There's a man in this picture. / No one can find him." The second section contains the "Digger" poems, a series on the lives of a Detroit auto worker and his family which tries to capture the effects of the work on life outside the factory. Here, we listen to Digger think, dream, wander on psychological journeys while he moves through his routines, shoveling the snow, mowing the lawn, and so forth. In section three, the poems move into the workplace, whether that be a liquor store, a hamburger joint, or a factory.These poems, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, concentrate on the efforts of workers to rise above the often depressing work of blue-collar or minimum-wage jobs, to salvage some pride and dignity. The poems in this book try to give a voice to those who are often shut out of poetry. They are important. These lives are important, and the poems, more than anything, say that."These poems are both testimony and the articulate gift of its human emotion: that one lives in a world that can feel, and insists on it. . . .Jim Daniels is a poet of unique commitment and ability. He makes poetry and act of deep caring and recognition."—Robert Creeley"Daniels' poems have exactly what one looks for in a first book—a strong, sure new voice, determinedly his own—as if he had no choice—heartfelt, speaking as certain poets seem able to, for those who are too often, not mute, but inarticulate. The book reads with the power and coherence of a novel, if novels could be written at the pitch of continuous small explosions of emotion."—Stuart Dybek"These poems are a refreshment. They hiss and steam with the street's vibrant hardness, the effort to look around the corner, pain in the eyes after a long day's work."—Carolyn Forché"This is gritty writing. It needs to be read again and again to let your preconceived notions of America change beneath the abrasion of these poems, that is, if you are inclined to seek the truth: Detroit at work in the car factories, and out of work, and at leisure an play and in self contemplation: grease, dirt, and self disgust, from which we get our handsome dashing cars. What could be more characteristic of American life that this irony. The book says it all. "—David Ignatow"Jim Daniels is very good, whether he is shoplifting, scraping up dead carrots, or making love to a machine. There is subtle art in his simple poems. He keeps the technique, and much of the suffering, to himself. It is a joy reading him."—Gerald Stern"Jim Daniels' tough Motown narratives are stark urban creations. He has an infallible ear for the words that come from our stricken industrial cities."—Paul Zimmer(from the Publisher's website)

Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi


Shinkichi Takahashi - 1985
    In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its quest for unity with the Absolute. Lucien Stryk, Takahashi's fellow poet and close friend, here presents Takahashi's complete body of Zen poems in an English translation that conveys the grace and power of Takahashi's superb art. "A first-rate poet . . . [Takahashi] springs out of some crack between ordinary worlds: that is, there is some genuine madness of the sort striven for in Zen." -- Robert Bly; "We visit places in Takahashi that we once may have visited in a dream, or in a moment too startling to record the perception. . . . You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emerge." -- Jim Harrison, American Poetry Review

Evening Brings Everything Back


Jaan Kaplinski - 1985
    This selection brings together work from three books previously unpublished in English."

Wine Of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty


J.P. Seaton - 1985
    Seaton's colloquial English renderings are a sheer pleasure to read, so much so that the reader is apt to forget he is enjoying translations..."--Choice

Jonestown and Other Madness: Poetry


Pat Parker - 1985
    Straightforward, no-nonsense poetry about being Black, female and gay.

The Garden Going on Without Us


Lorna Crozier - 1985
    Her poetry is sensual, pragmatic, linked to the women and men about her – people who live rather than simply name their lives. She often writes about the Prairies – a vast land that bleaches human and animal bones alike, but one that contains gardens in which people and plants are cultivated, and houses which are places of love-making, warmth, and rage. Her keen ironic tone is balanced by a certain romanticism. As a lyric poet, she has a wide range of tone and style.

AmeRícan


Tato Laviera - 1985
    In Tato Laviera's third collection, poems build on themes of ethnic exchange and the place of the borinqueno in that greater scheme. "This performance poet's voice resonates loud and clear through forceful rhythmic variations and a complete command of both Spanish and English"--Hispania. "AMERICAN is branching out, the striking of sympathetic chords with other cultural groups on the basis of expansive Puerto Rican sounds and rhythms...He seeks to stake a claim for Puerto Rican recognition before the whole US society"--Journal of Ethnic Studies.

Orrery


Richard Kenney - 1985
    Like a kind of miniature planetarium, an orrery is a machine "designed to model the movements of the entire known solar system." Kenney conceives of each of the poems in the book as a miniature orrery, and situates this "controlling metaphor" within a universal-local narrative of the workings of a cider mill in Weathersfield, Vermont.

two thirteen sixty one


Henry Rollins - 1985
    Written in his characteristically raw style, subjects include death, loneliness, and insanity.

Ploughshares Winter 1985


Stratis HaviarasAnna Akhmatova - 1985
    Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.This classic issue, guest-edited by poet Stratis Haviaras, features international writing by a number of world masters, including Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Graham Greene, and Seamus Heaney, with art by Paul Hannigan. It also contains translations of work by Anna Akhmatova, Naguib Mahfouz, Andre Breton, C. P. Cavafy, and many other brilliant writers, past and present, from around the globe. Full Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONStratis HaviarasPROSE AND POETRYAlan Dugan, “Mock Translation from the Greek”Odysseus Elytis, Three PoemsC.P. Cavafy, “Notes on Poetics and Ethics”Yannis Ritsos, Eight Paper PoemsGeorge Seferis, Two Prose ExcerptsSeamus Heaney, “The Ballad of the Bullets”Italo Calvino, “A Letter from the Sahara”Eugenio Montale, “Cuttlefish Bones”Primo Levi, Three PoemsCesare Pavese, Two PoemsMargherita Guidacci, “Anniversary with Agaves”Rocco Scotellaro, Two PoemsMichael Milburn, “The Habit of Affection”Raymond Carver, Six PoemsMiroslav Holub, Two PoemsJaroslav Seifert, Three PoemsJean Baptiste Racine, Two Scenes from PhaedraEugene Guillevic, Eight FabliettesYves Bonnefoy, Six PoemsJacques Rigaut, Three Prose PiecesAndre Breton, “On the Road to San Romano”Sven Birkerts, “An Open Invitation to Extra-terrestrials”James Merrill, “Six Bits”Ryszard Krynicki, Ten PoemsStanislaw Baranczak, Two PoemsGunther Grass, “Clearance Sale”Georg Trakl, Two PoemsKarl Krolow, Four PoemsFriedrich Hebbel, Aphorisms and ObservationsRobert Nozick, “Theological Explanations”Abraham Sutskever, Poems from a 1984 DiaryRami Ditzani, Two PoemsMiriam Oren, “Meeting”Naum Korzhavin, “Childhood Has Ended”Evgeny Vinokurov, “Adam”Vyacheslav Ivanov, “To the Translator”Anna Akhmatova, Five PoemsVasko Popa, “Give Me Back My Rags”Naguib Mahfouz, “Tales from Alleyways”Wei Chuang, Fourteen Poems and SongsGraham Greene, “A Weed Among the Flowers”Istvan Vas, Two PoemsDeszo Tandori, “The Christmas of Long Walks”Otto Orban, “The Technique”Blaga Dimitrova, “Introduction to the Beyond”Nicolai Kantchev, Five PoemsVolodia Teitelboim, “from Internal War”Sophie De Mello Breyner Andresen, Nine PoemsSilvio Fiorani, “Suddenly One Summer”Tomas Transtromer, “The Forgotten Commander”Henrik Nordbrandt, Two PoemsStein Mehren, Two PoemsKirsti Simonsuuri, Two PoemsHafiz, Four GhazalsAlan Dugan, “On the Summer Goddess Who Should Be Nameless”

Who Shall Know Them?


Faye Kicknosway - 1985
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Selected Poems of Vesna Parun


Vesna Parun - 1985
    Poetry by this poet and other Croatian and Serbian poets from Yugoslavia has been published in this country in various journals and anthologies; this however, is the first translation of a whole collection of Vesna Parun poems.Edited and translated by Dasha Culić Nisula.

Saints and Strangers


Andrew Hudgins - 1985
    

From This Condensery: The Complete Writing of Lorine Niedecker


Lorine Niedecker - 1985
    "Designed by Fred Thompson, Thomas Meyer, and Jonathan Williams"--Title page verso.

Future Poetry


Sri Aurobindo - 1985
    Not content simply with dissolution into a transcendental, other-worldly God-consciousness, nor with concentration on the outer life and its powers to the exclusion of anything other or higher, Sri Aurobindo has created the teachings of a Divine Life on Earth.The poetry of the future will be unlike that of the past in one very important circumstance, that in whatever languages it may be written, it will be more and more moved by the common mind and motives of all the human peoples.

Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigan


Tom Clark - 1985
    

The New World


Frederick Turner - 1985
    2376.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tog The Ribber, Or, Granny's Tale


Paul Coltman - 1985
    A poem relating the events of a frightening evening when Granny, as a young girl, was chased by Tog the Ribber's vengeful ghost.

Tremor: Selected Poems


Adam Zagajewski - 1985
    Seldom can one overhear so intense an exchange between Euterpe and Clio as in the pages of Tremor." -- Joseph Brodsky

Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-1980


Guy Davenport - 1985
    

George Faludy: Selected Poems 1933-80 (Modern Canadian Poets)


György Faludy - 1985
    

Selected Works In Three Volumes


Vladimir Mayakovsky - 1985
    

The Notion of Obstacle


Claude Royet-Journoud - 1985
    

A Fraction of Darkness


Linda Pastan - 1985
    In this new collection, Linda Pastan continues to fulfill the promise of her five earlier books.

A Marvelous World: Poems


Benjamin Péret - 1985
    Benjamin Peret was a 'Surrealist's Surrealist, ' Elizabeth Jackson tells us in her introduction to 'A Marvelous World, ' the first book to present an extensive and representative selection of Peret's poems in English.

The Lamplit Answer


Gjertrud Schnackenberg - 1985
    

Illustrated Poems for Children


Krystyna Orska - 1985
    A collection of more than 100 poems by such well-known poets as Tennyson, Stevenson, Frost, Dickinson, Lear, and many more.

The Passion of the Right-Angled Man


T.R. Hummer - 1985
    

Eternity's Woods


Paul Zweig - 1985
    These meditative, emotional poems courageously confront the fear and longing that surrounded Zweig's own death, the death of family members, and a dying love, with a postscript that includes several unfinished poems.

The Brave Never Write Poetry


Daniel Jones - 1985
    The brave have children, relationships,    mortgages. The brave never write these things    down in notebooks. The brave die and they are    dead.First published in 1985, when Daniel Jones was just twenty-six, The Brave Never Write Poetry, the poet/critic/novelist’s lone collection of poems, was a cult hit, turning ‘poetry’ on its head before its author (then known simply as ‘Jones’) swore off verse entirely. Written in a direct, plainspoken, autobiographical and at times confessional style in the tradition of Charles Bukowski and Al Purdy, these confrontational poems about sex and boredom, drugs and suicide, document Jones’ depressive, alcoholic years as an enfant terrible.This long overdue revised edition brings Jones’ unforgettable voice to a new generation of readers and includes the complete text of the original collection (including Jones’ own sardonic assessments of his own poetry) and a new postscript essay by poet/critic Kevin Connolly.

Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering


Hal Cannon - 1985
    One third of the poems are classics that have proven their vitality by having lived in the hearts and minds of cowboys and ranchers for decades. The remaining two-thirds are new, created within the last few years.