Cocktails: Poems4 reviews D. A. Powell Graywolf Press, 2004 Happy Hour + people who don't like poetry shouldn't read this: BUT ALSO VICE VERSA! + Ouch With Cocktails, D. A. Powell continues the work he began with his previous collections Tea and Lunch: examining, critiquing, lamenting, and accepting the effect of AIDS on an entire generation and subculture of men. Like Powell's other works, the poems here are marked by sudden inversions and ...             Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)6 reviews Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan, 1993 LANGUAGE LIT UP: SOUL-TO-SOUL COMMUNICATION + "Like a man drunk on the rage / Of being alive" + Highly Recommended!!! + easily teachable + One of my favorite books             Green Sees Things in Waves1 review August Kleinzahler Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 Kleinzahler's masterpiece With this book, August Kleinzahler -- already one of those fascinating poets who makes you glad that you live in the present moment -- has given us a strong, strange, unique and utterly memorable collection of poems. In poems like "Snow in New Jersey" and "Uttar Pradesh" he combines the textures ...             Tell Me (American Poets Continuum)10 reviews Kim Addonizio BOA Editions Ltd., 2000 Addonizio is Solid + Poems worthy of multiple visits + Awesome + Kim Addonizio, Poetry Goddess             The Beforelife3 reviews Franz Wright Knopf, 2002 Scalpel on a Napkin Whispered and etched, this book, this swarm of white space razored by words, this pill of dry and dead truth and black stars hanging in the far parts of the mind, which quietly explode (like an echo of an explosion) when you least expect them to, is one of the most urgent books of poetry I've read ...             Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry17 reviews Jane Hirshfield Harper Perennial, 1998 One of the kindest books to reread... + Luminous and inspirational + The best book on poetry that I own + A Book Which Takes Some Work + Understanding the Heart of Poetry             Saying the World6 reviews Peter Pereira Copper Canyon Press, 2003 Multi-faceted gems + Hooked on words from the start... + From the NYU Literature and Medicine database + Moving and thoughtful + From Eclectica Review, Gilbert Wesley Purdy             Two And Two (Pitt Poetry Series)4 reviews Denise Duhamel University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 Dive + DENISE DUHAMEL ALWAYS DELIVERS + Clapping + AMAZING ENERGY & GRACE             A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry15 reviews Harvest Books, 1998 An anthology of epiphanies + Anyone can find great value in this collection + Collection surprisingly wide scope, but terse. + Truly luminous collection + The Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz             Second Space: New Poems4 reviews Czeslaw Milosz Ecco, 2004 Milosz' Second Space + a short and thoughtful collection + The master craftsman speaks to us posthumously + Spiritually luminous, lyrically elegant...(20 Stars!)             Cascadia (Wesleyan Poetry Series)9 reviews Brenda Hillman Wesleyan, 2001 Poetry that is profound, turbulent, and impressive + Body and Soil + crucial intervention of our everyday comprehension + Tellutectonic             Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Poets, Penguin)7 reviews John Ashbery Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Explosive, subtle; redefines American poetry. + Fast delivery + A Classic Worth Your Time + Sashimi of Post-Modernity             The Clerk's Tale: Poems5 reviews Spencer Reece Mariner Books, 2004 Luminous + Exquisite + Beautiful, Luminous Poems + Minnesota, Florida, Silence + amazing             Up to Speed (Wesleyan Poetry) Rae Armantrout Wesleyan, 2004 Rae Armantrout's most recent collection of poems focuses on the phenomenon of time, both as lived experience at the start of the 21st century and as a stubborn mystery confronting physicists and philosophers. The poems in this book are polyphonic: they juxtapose the discourses of science and religion, Hollywood and the occasional psychotic stranger. The title poem, which appears in Best American ...             American Dreams7 reviews Sapphire Vintage, 1996 ELECTRIFYING! A SOUL STIRRING ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF BEAUTY + Art for Sure... + Keeps you glued to the pages! + powerful             Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-seon, and Choi Young-mi Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-seon, ... Sarabande Books, 2002 As noted in the introduction, in contemporary Korea, "poems are found on mountain boulders, on caf walls, on placemats, T-shirts, and television game shows." And though Americans may know something of Korea's modern history of tumult-division and repression-little of the country's rich and varied poetry has been available to the English-speaking public. In Three Poets of Modern Korea , ...             Burnt Offerings1 review Timothy Liu Copper Canyon Press, 1995 A bold but gentle poetic voice I first encountered one of Timothy Liu's poems in an anthology, and was impressed enough to seek out further work of his. "Burnt Offerings" is a collection of his poetry. A significant part of the book reflects a gay Asian male perspective. There are a number of religious references and allusions, ...             Allegory of the Supermarket (Contemporary Poetry Series)3 reviews Stephanie Brown University of Georgia Press, 1999 One of the Best! + One of the Best + Witty and Enjoyable Great for women of all natures, especially other writers who are able to appreciate and understand Brown's astute observation of human behavior and all its flaws. GREAT READ. You'll return to this book to enjoy how fresh each poem is--no matter how many times you've read them. I especially love the ...             Meadowlands18 reviews Louise Gluck Ecco, 1997 Complex, dry, witty, and biting + Review of Meadowlands + This is what you forgot to write about, Homer. + Meadowland Uncover + Deterioration of Marriages             Talking to My Body6 reviews Anna Swir Copper Canyon Press, 1996 Yes, yes, and YES!!! We need more poets like Anna Swir! + Fierce + Precious stones + powerful and stirring + A must read for women...