The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works...
Poetry
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Author:Summary: - Author:Seeger, PeteSummary:
This audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems through musical traditions as diverse as African music, the blues, bluegrass, Celtic music, classical guitar, folk...
- Author:Bennett, JoshuaSummary:
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of...
- Author:Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
If we do not sleep together by March then we will break apart.
Now is the first. Now the second. Now the third. Now the fourth.
If we do not lie down together, you wanting me, I you,we will break apart. Now is the...
- Author:Mersal, ImanSummary:
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s - indeed, the Arab world’s - great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo’s...
- Author:Hollo, AnselmSummary:
From "Art History": Someone comes along gives that tedious old thing a new twist or breaks its neck the old questions don't change: what do you want me to say' what do you want me to do' Anselm Hollo (1934-2013...
- Author:Brown, JerichoSummary:
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award Jericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal....
- Author:Goyette, SueSummary:
Nominated for the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a...
- Author:Vautour, BartSummary:
In an A-to-Z compendium that finds the wonder in information overload. The Truth About Facts makes intimate the seeming noise of information and facts by using the tradition of the alphabet book to get back to basics: to make room for...
- Author:AtticusSummary:
From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars and Love Her Wild, Instagram sensation Atticus returns with another romantic and deeply moving collection. The Truth About Magic builds on the pains and joys of...
- Author:Scowcroft, AnnSummary:
Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People’s Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee)
Poems exploring the idea of home and...
- Author:Burgham, IanSummary:
This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."
- Author:O'Meara, DavidSummary:
Winner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region – Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards
In The Vicinity David O’Meara gives us a new kind of...
- Author:WADDINGTON, MiriamSummary:
- Author:Rice, BruceSummary:
These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian...
- Author:Heighton, StevenSummary:
A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just...
- Author:Eliot, T. S.Summary:
Famous for juxtaposing Eastern cultures with Western literary references, The Waste Land has been celebrated for its eloquence, depth of meaning, and numerous subtleties. Rich with allusions to the religious texts of Hinduism and...
- Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
The Way to Come Home is Carolyn Smart's fourth book of poems. It is a collection that ranges from celebrating the rural landscape north of Kingston, Ontario to re-creating the painful last phase of her friend Bronwen Wallace's...
- Author:Green, Albena BelovedSummary:
The Way We Hold On is Abena Beloved Green's debut book of poetry. Her poems address cultural, social, and environmental issues, relationships, and reflect on everyday life as a small-town raised, semi-nomadic, first-generation...
- Author:Cookshaw, MarleneSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)
Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and...
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