Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems9 reviews Robinson Jeffers Vintage, 1965 "COME JEFFERS" + Best introductory volume on Jeffers unique poetry and views + A fabulous little book + The Poetry of the Earth + Changes of heart             Mountains and Rivers Without End8 reviews Gary Snyder Counterpoint, 1997 Golden nugget + A profound retrospective in which one man speaks for all + And Rivers End Without Mountains + A man's world-vision made true through communion with Nature + An epic poem from a master.             Given: Poems4 reviews Wendell Berry Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005 Thoughts about love, aging and war + Masterful + Gifts for Sabbath Wendell Berry has written more than 40 books. His poetry books are shining gems. They are filled with short "simple" poems that will stop you in your tracks. The section of this book entitled "Sabbaths" contains poems written on Sundays from 1998-2004. Until 2003, these poems are about ...             Homage To Mistress Bradstreet John Berryman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1956             Four Quartets14 reviews T. S. Eliot Harvest Books, 1968 T.S. Eliot for Sikhs + Only through time, time is conquered + Eliot's Four Quartets + All art ... approaches the condition of music. + Four Quartets             On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay1 review Robert Creeley University of California Press, 2006 'To be human has growing old at its end' Robert Creeley died last year, an event he expected and understood as well as any poet ever has. This collection of his last writings is a treasure to those of us who fell under his inspiring and straightforward spell of writing: it is an apt epitaph to a man whose poems caressed the human ...             Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (Library of Classic Poets)4 reviews Edna St. Vincent Millay Gramercy, 2006 Enchanting poems from an enchantress + Beautiful Poetry + ...makes you want to read more, more... The introduction to this collection of poetry says that Edna St. Vincent Millay has been criticized for not being sufficiently "modernist". He poems are too sentimental, too easy-to-read, and borrow too much from 18th century styles. Well the critics might be right but I love this poetry and plan ...             The Book of Job13 reviews Stephen Mitchell Harper Perennial, 1992 Why? + A Must Read for... Everyone + Did Mr. Mitchell Miss the Point? (A Jewish Perspective) + It did the job + From John in Virginia             Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)4 reviews Allen Ginsberg City Lights Publishers, 2001 the poet who brings dignety to madnes + After 'HOWL', It's 'KADDISH' + a mother's madness + Nice little collection             The Blizzard Voices5 reviews Ted Kooser Bison Books, 2006 Voices from the Storm + Feeling the Wind and the Cold + Great story telling through poetry! + Blizzard Voices             Hours in the Garden and Other Poems1 review Hermann Hesse Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979 CHARMING! The book consists of six narrative poems describing beautiful scenes of nature. Hesse takes you with him for his morning walk through his garden drawing a lively picture of his flowers, vegetables and trees. He describes the hard work and the time he, his wife, Natalina and Lorenzo put to make this ...             The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry1 review Grove Press, 1996 Excellent Introduction to a Difficult Book The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the Book of Changes (Yi Jing), the Book of History (Shu Jing) and the Book of Rites (Li Chi). All four of these books were already old when Confucius flourished, and tradition states that they were edited ...             Book of Longing27 reviews Leonard Cohen Ecco, 2006 This is what poetry is all about + A gift of creativity by Leonard Cohen; even his drawings are delightful! I found another special book + A Long Time Coming For Modern Poetry + Nothing short of brilliant. + Words Cannot Describe             The Inferno (Signet Classics)106 reviews Dante Alighieri Signet Classics, 2001 A powerful translation of a masterpiece + Nice balance + One of the Best Translations + Mandelbaum for beauty, Hollander for notes, Esolen for arguments + Sets the bar high for future B&N Classics             100 Selected Poems29 reviews e. e. cummings Grove Press, 1994 How Do You Like Your Blue Eyed Boy Now? + A great starting point + I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance + A thorough but concise introduction to Cummings + One of the best             The Complete Poems3 reviews Randall Jarrell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981 America's Great Poet of WWII + My favorite America poet of the 20th century + An interesting poet A great poem ought to be huge - grand in scope, but not necessarily excessive in length. Great poetry should tell massive stories with multiple layers concisely and artfully. One doesn't need obscure references, convoluted language, nor self-congratulatory internal winkings. Poetry is supposed to ...             The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien3 reviews T'Ao Ch'Ien Copper Canyon Press, 2000 one of China great poets, a great american translator + sincerity in action + The poet of the earth-centered life of inner peace I teach Chinese literature in translation, and a few other things, at the University of North Carolina, and I've used this in class since it came into print. Students who have slept thru earlier Chinese literature snap awake to these. I have called T'ao Ch'ien the first modern poet( in the ...             White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-20069 reviews Donald Hall Houghton Mifflin, 2006 Beauty and Power + A Hall of Surprises + A lovely retrospective + On Donald Hall + Even a Baseball Fan Will             The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play9 reviews Wallace Stevens Vintage, 1990 Setting Art Against Nature + Referenced by Harold Bloom + One of the best. + At the end of the mind             A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Paperback No. 74)27 reviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968 Thank You, Mr. Ferlinghetti + A wonderful book -- BUT + "I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder." + great + A distant man with a personal message