Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7048&N=3+8015+6645 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669240 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486685 A new translation of Homers ancient masterpiece endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1444841 A collection of poetry by Brian McGackin, aimed at a male audience, expressing fond feelings toward video game consoles, frozen pizza, and Bruce Willis, and exploring Star Wars conventions, frat parties, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=937540 This compilation of great American poetry contains some of the most fondly remembered works of all time. Representing the earliest days of the Nation through the golden age of the 19th century and up to the present day, this classic collection also includes the lyrics of canonical songs, from The Star-Spangled Banner to This Land is Your Land. Each poets work is preceded by an introduction.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641063 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627108 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609461 In this fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from the stones of the ordinary: a quiet neighborhood street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree, a starling. Her lines measure the vulnerable grace of working people, the waitress, the nurse, the bus driver. And especially in this new collection, the beauty and pain of young women, mothers and daughters, sisters, lovers, caught in the lunar pull of our time, coming of age in America.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584919 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620365 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=485641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=453518 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431389 Soon after it was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine became famous for printing the first poems of T. S. Eliot (The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock), Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems), and Wallace Stevens (Sunday Morning), and revolutionary work by Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and many other then unknown but now classic authors. Over nine decades, never missing a monthly issue, Poetry has presented virtually every significant poet of the twentieth century - often for the first time - and has become a legend in its own right. Decade by decade, this ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents - along with several lesser known - in all their variety: William Butler Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Graves, May Sarton, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Robert Penn Warren, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Anne Sexton, Thom Gunn, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Maxine Kumin, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Galway Kinnell.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=415381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=697621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=293318 Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendels mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the four-squareness of the utterance in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=254418 A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92217 This centennial edition of E. E. Cummingss Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including thirty-six poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. At the time of his death in 1962 E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he lived most of his life in Greenwich Village and in Madison, New Hampshire, where he died in 1962. His imprisonment in a French detention center during World War I, which inspired his novel The Enormous Room, and his visit to Stalinist Russia in 1931, described in his EIMI, punctuated a career devoted entirely to his two passions of poetry and painting. Combining Thoreaus controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized on the one hand as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language, and on the other as one of the most inventive American poets of his time - in the words of Richard Kostelanetz, the major American poet of the middle-twentieth-century.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=125707 It is not only the allusions to sex and physiology that disturbed Whitmans critics but also his departure from the rules of conventional poetry. He broke down the standard metred line, discarded the obligatory rhyming scheme, and freely expressed himself in the living vernacular of American speech. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=74939 One of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry is now available in a remarkable edition that comprehends the poet and his book in an entirely new way. This edition of Spoon River Anthology probes the social background of the smalltown world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated--and finally transmuted into powerful literary art. Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration, violence, struggle, and triumph that once shocked American readers. The most extraordinary feature of this edition is the extensive introduction that provides the key to this misunderstood American classic. The books relationship to Whitman is clearly established, and the important influences of Browning, Goethe, Spinoza, and others are revealed for the first time. John Hallwass approach combines cultural, biographical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, mythic, and symbolic insights--and concludes with a stunning reassessment of Our New Poet. The annotated Spoon River Anthology supersedes 75 years of largely misdirected critical commentary. It will send a new generation of readers back to this surprisingly complex book that probes so deeply into the American consciousness--and will send Masters back into our national anthologies.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=176556 In Robert Fagles beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes--godlike, yet utterly human--of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing. Fagles voice is always that of a poet and scholar of our own age as he conveys the power of Homer. Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox are to be congratulated and praised on this admirable work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=141592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=185605