A few months before the death of the noted American poet Larry Eigner in February 1996, Green Integer editor Douglas Messerli contracted with him to publish a new collection of his work. Now, edited by Eigner's long-time friend Robert Grenier, this new book has been long awaited by the growing readership of Eigner's poetry. It is a work that gracefully accepts death and, by virture of its very testament to the life around, reiterates Eigner's continual engagement with the world--despite a lifetime spent in a wheel chair. Larry Eigner was the author of over 40 books of poetry and critical writing. Among his books are windows / walls / yard / way, The World and Its Streets , and Things Stirring Together or Far Apart.

"Karl Shapiro was one of the twentieth-century's major poets. He published more than twenty books of poetry, two autobiographies, including poetry, seven collections of essays, and a novel. Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress (the position now known as the U.S. Poet Laureate), he was the winner of numerous prizes and awards, including the Contemporary Poetry prize, two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and the Bollingen Prize. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a faculty member at several universities. Active in his craft well into his late seventies, in 2000 Shapiro died at the age of 86. This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere. They are largely as Shapiro left them, in a desk drawer in his apartment in uptown Manhattan"--

Product Description ". . . and what used to take me a decade and more to accomplish as a writer has suddenly fruited within a 12-month time frame." Joe Sherman was describing Beautiful Veins, his final poetry collection. Beautiful Veins begins with a child, "one life with all the promise of its beautiful veins." Some poems catch details of domestic life, its indwelling spirit and glancing irony. Others evoke history and landscape, opening them up to careful consideration. Always there is a love of language: its quirks and oddities, its split-levels and riches. Intricate and elliptical syntax reveals moments of joy, named against the threat of time and illness. A poem ends, in its own kind of triumph, "I would rather be beautiful than dead." About the Author Joseph Sherman (1945-2006) grew up in Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia, studied in Fredericton, taught in Edmundston, New Brunswick, and moved to Charlottetown in 1979. A superb editor, poet, and essayist, he won many awards, including the Bliss Carman Award and the Royal Society of Arts Silver Medal; he was also a Member of the Order of Canada. His practice and advocacy contributed immeasurably to the arts in Prince Edward island, the Atlantic region, and Canada.

Arcana: A Festschrift for Jack Hirschman is an anthology of poetry read at the parties and celebrations held in San Francisco's North Beach in honor of San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Jack Hirschman's 80th birthday in December of 2013. Included are poems, many never-before-published, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Neeli Cherkovski, Amber Tamblyn, Alejandro Murguia, Judith Ayn Bernhard, Agneta Falk, Dorothy Payne and many others. Readings were held at City Lights Bookstore and the Emerald Tablet Gallery.

Satirical poetry which includes poems about the Nixon years and the Reagan reign

In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. The Ether Dome is his seventh book of poems.

A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of meanspart almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic dramafrom the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heardGrossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth , the younger poet and the older one meet at an eternal moment and a dialogue in poetry ensues, as the Allen Grossman of 2001 and the Allen Grossman of nearly fifty years earlier respond to one another's words.The poems of the "Sweet Youth", some of them dating to the early '50s, were originally collected in the poet's first three books: A Harlot's Hire (1961), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1973). Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in "Sweet Youth," all the poems of "Old Man" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.

The Pink Trance Notebooks is the product of the year Wayne Koestenbaum stopped keeping the traditional journal he had maintained for three decades and began a series of "trance notebooks" as a way to reflect an intensified, unmoored consciousness. The resulting sequence of 34 assemblages reflects Koestenbaum's unfettered musings, findings, and obsessions. Freed from the conventions of prose, this concatenation of the author's intimate observations and desires lets loose a poetics of ecstatic praxis--voiced with aplomb and always on point. "Wayne Koestenbaum is one of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today. His alarmingly focused attention to detail goes beyond lunacy into hilarious and brilliant clarity." --John Waters

In The Milk of Inquiry, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum has written his most beautiful book - more mediative and more provocative than his previous, much-praised work. The volume's most ambitious gesture is a long poem, "Metamorphoses (Masked Ball)," a sequence of 115 bawdy, speedy sonnets, spoken by mythological figures ghosting as historical personages - among them, Orpheus speaking as Elvis, Proserpina speaking as Freud, Adonis speaking as Cleopatra, and Daphne speaking as Wilde. The swirling disobedient voices form a closet drama, a splintered monologue, a shadow theater of violation and transfiguration.

The collection's cornerstones are two rhapsodies - long poems which combine the richness of a novel, the intimacy of a lyric, and the immediacy of a performance. At the climax of the first, the poet meets his double, a dying boy whose shameful moniker is Baldie. As if in response to this explosive confrontation, the poet dares to write a second, wilder Rhapsody - a confessional, improvisatory fantasia, virtually a book in itself, where abjection blossoms into formally-innovative extravagance. Three sequences complete the collection: Piano Life, a series of haunted meditations on music and mortality; Erotic Collectibles, a disarmingly unsentimental account of sexual awakening; and Star Vehicles, in which the poet sees his perplexities reflected in Bette Davis, Sophia Loren, Ida Lupino, and other leading ladies.

Camp Marmalade takes the freedoms of trance utterance―unfettered verbal association, explicit auto-ethnography, erotic bricolage―and applies a more stringent sense of time-as-emergency to this liberation-oriented poetic method. Part diary, part collage, part textbook for a new School of Impulse, Camp Marmalade assembles a perverse and giddy cultural archive, a Ferris wheel of aphorisms, depicting a queer body amidst a dizzying flow of sensations, dreams, and sex-and-death distillations―whether sugary, fruity, bitter, expired, or freshly jarred.

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These poems come straight from the heart of childhood and will speak directly to all the children who read or listen to them.

An anthology of poems, from many different countries and periods of time, reflecting various aspects of love.

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