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A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her... |
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| Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling... |
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| Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The... |
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| "To see the world in a grain of sand/and heaven in a wild flower"...Blake's poetry does just that. Using powerful imagery and uncompromising language it opens doors of perception within the mind,... |
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The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has... |
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| "I, too, saw God through mud,-" says Owen in his Apologia Pro Poemate Meo this is England's greatest war poet at his best and each poem in this collection shines like a polished gemstone in... |
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Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in... |
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Of great limbs gone to chaos,
A great face turned to night -
Why bend above a shapeless shroud
Seeking in such archaic cloud
Sight of strong lords and light? |
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| A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. "Using simple, understandable language," notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate "captures ordinary life--its pleasure, its discontents,... |
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| Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the... |
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