Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems74 reviews
Billy Collins

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

Poetry for the rest of us!

+ Unexpected, funny, exquisite
+ Are the new poems worth buying the volume?
+ Dhyana, Yoga and Billy Collins
+ Put your life on hold
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)7 reviews
James Tate

Wesleyan, 1991

LOVE IT!!

+ A wonderful collection
+ Hyperbole just isn't enough
+ Bukowski is Old and Tired and Sensationalistic
  
  











  



  
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry11 reviews

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003

It meets its intended goal

+ Good for Teachers
+ A Fine Poetry Anthology

Poetry 180 is both impressive and disappointing. Collins has assembled a volume of accessible, contemporary poetry. It is poetry that will easily convince teens (and the general poetry-impaired public)that poetry can speak directly to them without the academic trappings of analysis. This is an ...
  
  











  



  
Thomas and Beulah9 reviews
Rita Dove

Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986

Different Views

+ Fabulous.
+ Fantastic work of poetry
+ Wonderful book
+ Excellent Read
  
  











  



  
What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems8 reviews
Tony Hoagland

Graywolf Press, 2003

Honest, blunt poetry from a captivating author

+ i find my favorite poet.
+ outstanding poetry
+ Poetry Lives Again!!
+ Narcissism is usually the topical domain of psychology
  
  











  



  
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara16 reviews
Frank O'Hara

University of California Press, 1995

The missing link

+ He Gives Me Permission To Write (from Ahadada Books)
+ The F. Scott Fitzgerald of Poets
+ Just plain indispensable.
  
  











  



  
Walking the Black Cat3 reviews
Charles Simic

Harvest Books, 1996

One of the best poets alive

+ Gorgeous.
+ Contemporary, Thoughtful, Disturbing, and Refreshing

Charles Simic's "Walking The Black Cat" is hard evidence that the sarcastic, irreverent and consciousness bending spirit of surrealism is alive and well. Simic's tone is flippant and unmistakably poetic; he can take the most ordinary situation and make a slick, subtle metaphysical comment about it ...
  
  











  



  
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon ...36 reviews
Richard Brautigan

Mariner Books, 1989

He heard the sound of his own drummer

+ Hallucinatory, and Great
+ Brautigan's Style is 5 star for me.

The man is no longer here so its necessary to give him the benefit of the doubt. Brautigan was in the long tradition of American originals. Thoreau defined it as the person who can't walk in step with the others because he 'hears the sound of his own drummer'. Brautigan put a number of things ...
  
  











  



  
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition)11 reviews
Hart Crane

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2001

Whispers antiphonal in azure swing...

+ A Reading of "Stark Major"
+ In the Tradition
+ Kiss of our agony
  
  











  



  
What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems8 reviews
Tony Hoagland

Graywolf Press, 2003

Honest, blunt poetry from a captivating author

+ i find my favorite poet.
+ outstanding poetry
+ Poetry Lives Again!!
+ Narcissism is usually the topical domain of psychology
  
  











  



  
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems74 reviews
Billy Collins

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

Poetry for the rest of us!

+ Unexpected, funny, exquisite
+ Are the new poems worth buying the volume?
+ Dhyana, Yoga and Billy Collins
+ Put your life on hold
  
  











  



  
Thomas and Beulah9 reviews
Rita Dove

Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986

Different Views

+ Fabulous.
+ Fantastic work of poetry
+ Wonderful book
+ Excellent Read
  
  











  



  
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon ...36 reviews
Richard Brautigan

Mariner Books, 1989

He heard the sound of his own drummer

+ Hallucinatory, and Great
+ Brautigan's Style is 5 star for me.

The man is no longer here so its necessary to give him the benefit of the doubt. Brautigan was in the long tradition of American originals. Thoreau defined it as the person who can't walk in step with the others because he 'hears the sound of his own drummer'. Brautigan put a number of things ...
  
  











  



  
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition)11 reviews
Hart Crane

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2001

Whispers antiphonal in azure swing...

+ A Reading of "Stark Major"
+ In the Tradition
+ Kiss of our agony
  
  











  



  
Walking the Black Cat3 reviews
Charles Simic

Harvest Books, 1996

One of the best poets alive

+ Gorgeous.
+ Contemporary, Thoughtful, Disturbing, and Refreshing

Charles Simic's "Walking The Black Cat" is hard evidence that the sarcastic, irreverent and consciousness bending spirit of surrealism is alive and well. Simic's tone is flippant and unmistakably poetic; he can take the most ordinary situation and make a slick, subtle metaphysical comment about it ...
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)7 reviews
James Tate

Wesleyan, 1991

LOVE IT!!

+ A wonderful collection
+ Hyperbole just isn't enough
+ Bukowski is Old and Tired and Sensationalistic
  
  











  



  
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry11 reviews

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003

It meets its intended goal

+ Good for Teachers
+ A Fine Poetry Anthology

Poetry 180 is both impressive and disappointing. Collins has assembled a volume of accessible, contemporary poetry. It is poetry that will easily convince teens (and the general poetry-impaired public)that poetry can speak directly to them without the academic trappings of analysis. This is an ...
  
  











  



  
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara16 reviews
Frank O'Hara

University of California Press, 1995

The missing link

+ He Gives Me Permission To Write (from Ahadada Books)
+ The F. Scott Fitzgerald of Poets
+ Just plain indispensable.