A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the …
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry “Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly …
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar …
A masterfully curated collection, drawn from a century of works in the acclaimed Yale Series of Younger Poets The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in …
A dazzling yet little-known artist’s book that distills the painter’s seminal interests in abstraction and the unity of the arts Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer …
Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time “This is a book of longing, yes, and also spiritual discernment, political …
This bilingual edition of three lively and amusing French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and …
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems …
A diverse and imaginative selection of works from the long tradition of devotional poetry in English Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language …
This book—the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry—presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. All the …
