Tea (Wesleyan Poetry)3 reviews D. A. Powell Wesleyan, 1998 The Ecstasy of Living in a Time of Plague + Ecstatic heartbreak + A Book Important To Our Generation Powell is bright, campy, sultry, somber, intelligent, and perceptive. His long lines reach into the grave and beyond it. He has the brashness and swish of a swashbuckler, the mournful tone of a nightingale, and some hot bedroom eyes seering the desolate landscape of a world ravaged by disease. ...             Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems Elizabeth Spires W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 Elizabeth Spires writes about life-and-death matters. The poems find hope in the seasonal and spiritual moment when "the green blade rises".             Utopic1 review Claudia Keelan Alice James Books, 2002 "It is better to appear /untrue than to be untrue:" The desert enters Keelan's poems not so much as heat but as dryness, the clarifying aridity of the prophet wandering the desert in sackcloth, beating upon his hand drum and clacking his finger cymbals. Keelan's refusal to seduce her readers may seem at first to be a rebuff. Her poems, at first ...             The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind Larissa Szporluk Alice James Books, 2003 Haunting and spare, The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind is obsessed with fate's fickle nature. Propelled by internal rhyme, these lyric poems draw on fairy tales and fables, stories from the Bible and from Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio , their characters blown hither and thither by mythic winds-but -inevitably, toward an awareness of mortality. Inside the Dog-Fish Wide as the church, the sea, ...             Men in the Off Hours15 reviews Anne Carson Vintage, 2001 Exaltations of Mistake + The Exaltation of Mistake + Deliberately Unstrung Hours Susan Sontag, one of the foremost thinkers and writers of today, says of Anne Carson: "[Anne Carson] is one of the few writers in English that I would read anything she wrote." Such regard for Carson is justified. One of the premiere poets today re-inventing and rediscovering language to meet our ...             Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)5 reviews Walt Whitman Dover Publications, 2007 What More Can Be Said? + He understood what we all feel about being alive. + A small part of 'Leaves of Grass' + Sigh................... + Loverly             Wild Iris21 reviews Louise Gluck Ecco, 1994 Standout from the crowd + If winter comes, can spring be far behind? + Psalms from the Garden + Will I remember these lines?             Autobiography of Red29 reviews Anne Carson Vintage, 1998 Framing and Layers of Life + An Excellent Interpretation of an Ancient Myth in Verse + Wanting to return + "Autobiography of Red" Is A Modern Masterpiece + The Human Custom of Wrong Love             X (Lannan Literary Selections)3 reviews James Galvin Copper Canyon Press, 2003 A Nightingale In Wyoming + Powerful, a bit single noted + Best A long time has past since John Keats slouched beneath a nightingale's nest in a plum tree to bemoan a world "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow/and leaden-eyed despairs/Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes/Or new love pine at them beyond to morrow." In our cool age, merely to think ...             The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson50 reviews Emily Dickinson Back Bay Books, 1976 Great collection of poetry! + True Dickinson fans.... + One of the best poetry collections around + Your thoughts don't have words every day... + Emily's Full Collection             Blacks5 reviews Gwendolyn Brooks Third World Press, 1994 Sweeping and Epic + Ms. Brooks best writings + Late Great American Writer's Collection of Standards + Excellent poetry + Brooks has "a long reach, / strong speech"             And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)12 reviews Olena Kalytiak Davis University of Wisconsin Press, 1997 Salvation in a little white paperback book + Talented Poet + Losing Oneself + get on this + One of the best books of poetry             Recovered Body4 reviews Scott Cairns Eighth Day Pr, 2003 Troubling revisions of Christian myth + Poetry written from a theological perspective -- it works + Wow! Mystery gets a Body! + Exquisite             Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)23 reviews T. S. Eliot Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991 Truly, one of the giants + Delightful addition to our collection! + one of the best ever + Greatness compromised + Good stuff             The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged19 reviews Robert Frost Henry Holt and Co., 1969 Frost's treasure + America's greatest poet + Wonderful and Enriching + Robert Frost, the poet for poetry lovers + North Country Simple?             Eros the Bittersweet6 reviews Anne Carson Dalkey Archive Press, 1998 From the Classics + Life Changing Read + Amazing + Anne Carson's Best Book + Carson is an inspired guide             Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin)5 reviews John Ashbery Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986 John Ashbery IS a marvellous poet! + Long poems + A Mating Swarm of Twittering Machines + Tangential + A footnote to my previous review             Dark Sky Question (Barnard New Women Poets Series)9 reviews Larissa Szporluk Beacon Press, 1998 The nature of Szporluk + Wonderful + Larissa Szporluk's Dark Sky Question + Dark Sky Answer + hush... time for letting go.             Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry)3 reviews Brenda Hillman Wesleyan, 1997 Loose Sugar + Bravo Work By a Master + A Waitress of Fire While this may start out for many as a scholarly work, it ended up for me to be a next-to-the-bedside book, something to touch base with in the day-to-day, which is where Brenda Hillman lives much of the time. How about picking it up randomly to read: (my apologies that I cannot make these poems ...             The Novice Mourner1 review Joshua McKinney Bear Star Press, 2005 This poet doesn't look away. Joshua McKinney crafts unflinching poetry about the gritty business of living a rich emotional life. He sees the poetry in the mundane and tragic and writes it without blinking. This is not to say that there isn't humor (albeit, sometimes dark) in his work: Check out this line from "Gun": The boy ...