Emily Dickinson

Emily Fragos

Provides a selection of letters that poet Emily Dickinson sent to her friends and family, in which the legend discusses tending her garden, baking bread, marking the milestones of her loved ones, confessing her joys and sorrows and much more, in an pocket-sized edition that includes a ribbon marker.

Emily Dickinson Letters

Presents the works of some of literature's greatest waxing poetic on the universal language that needs no words, from Rumi and Shakespeare, to Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; from the wild pipes of William Blake to the jazz rhythms of Langston Hughes, the result is a symphony of poetic voices as varied as the music itself.

Poems about Music and Musicians

Music's Spell

A David Craig Austin Poetry Prize-winning writer presents a collection of works in which she deeply empathizes with her characters, who include misfits, artists, the students of a fifteenth-century school, and a composer on the brink of madness. Original.

Little Savage

Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included here are poems celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', Monet's 'Waterlilies' and Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'; well-known poems such as Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Auden's 'Musee de Beaux-Arts', Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of Achilles and Garcia Lorca's breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador Dali. Allen Ginsberg writes about Cezanne, E. E. Cummings about Picasso, Billy Collins about Hieronymous Bosch, and Joyce Carol Oates about Edward Hopper. Here too are poems that take on the artists themselves, from Michelangelo and Rembrandt to Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol. Altogether, this brilliantly curated anthology proves that a picture can be worth a thousand words - or a few very well-chosen ones.

Art and Artists

An enchanting anthology of cat poems pays tribute to the mysteries of the feline world in a collection that offers profiles of T. S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, Christopher Smart's Jeoffrey, and others in works by Chaucer, Shelley, Borge, Neruda, Shakespeare, Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, Dickinson, and more.

Poems about Cats

The Great Cat

A celebratory anthology of poetry about the dance and the dancer captures dances of all kinds and from around the world--whirling dervishes, wedding waltzes, disco, ballet, flamenco, and reels and jigs--in works by more than 150 poets, including Li Po, Shakespeare, Milton, Rilke, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Merrill, Hafez, and Rimbaud. 10,000 first printing.

The Dance

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Paris covers a wide range of time, from the Renaissance to the present, and includes not only the pantheon of classic French poets, from Ronsard to Baudelaire to Mallarmé, but also tributes by visitors to the city and famous expatriates from all over the world, including Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, and many more. All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food, drink, and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.

Poems of Paris

For centuries poets in all the world's cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the earth and its people. Both an emotion and a conscious practice, gratitude is a cherishing of what is over what has been or could be. It celebrates the joy in our lives while acknowledging the sorrows and losses that give that joy its keenness. The voices collected here range from Horace to Herrick, from Wordsworth and Keats, Yeats and Frost, to Czeslaw Milosz, Constantine Cavafy, Primo Levi, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, and many many more. Devotional lyrics drawn from the major religious traditions offer their perspectives, alongside poetic tributes to autumn and the harvest season that draw our attention to nature's bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches.

Poems of Gratitude

Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Jacques Prevert, Aime Cesaire, Hedi Kaddour, to name but a few. Added to this are poems by the many visitors who have been mesmerized by Paris, some of whom made it their home - Rilke, Wilde, Cummings, Pound, Neruda, Beckett, Mandelstam, Nabokov, Rilke, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Fenton... All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food and drink, art and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.

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