Vendor: Graywolf Press, 1997
Type: Poetry.
Price: 8.00

Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Kenyon, Jane

Published by Graywolf Press, 1997

Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books―From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance―this collection was selected and arranged by Kenyon herself―alongside her husband, the esteemed poet Donald Hall―shortly before her death in April 1995.

This extensive gathering reveals a scrupulously crafted body of work in which poem after poem achieves a rare and somber grace. Light and shade are never far apart in these telling narratives of life and love and work at the poet's rural New Hampshire home. The shadow of depression in Kenyon's verse, which grew much darker and longer at certain intervals, has the force and heft of a spiritual presence―a god, demon, angel. Yet her work emphasizes the constant effort of her imagination to confront and even find redemption in suffering. However quiet or domesticated or subtle in her moods and methods, Kenyon was a poet who sought to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, and her poems continue to make this discovery. As Hall writes in the afterword to Otherwise, we share "her joy in the body and the creation, in flowers, music, and paintings, in hayfields and a dog."

Vendor: Paris Press, 1996
Type: Poetry.
Price: 7.50

The Life of Poetry (Paris Press) by Rukeyser, Muriel

Published by Paris Press, 1996

Our century's lost classic about American culture, the essential saving force of poetry, and how it can improve the quality of life in the United States.

Observing that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Muriel Rukeyser explores the vital force of poetry and the arts in American culture. She opposes elitist attitudes and addresses Americans' fear of feeling, which contribute to a devaluation of poetry and the arts in the U.S. Multicultural and interdisciplinary, this collection of essays makes an irrefutable case for the centrality of poetry in American life.

Vendor: New Directions Publishing, 1988
Type: Poetry.
Price: 5.00

New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith by Smith, Stevie

Published by New Directions Publishing, 1988

A uniquely often humorous poet who accompanies her work with her own line drawings and doodles. Poems deal with parents, love, marriage, politics, suicide, nature, history, friendship, enemies, and animals.

Vendor: South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2020
Type: Poetry.
Price: 14.40

South Dakota In Poems by Stewart-nunez, Christine

Published by South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2020

Poems By Contemporary South Dakota Writers.

Vendor: Graywolf Press, 2017
Type: Poetry.
Price: 7.00

WHEREAS: Poems by Soldier, Layli Long

Published by Graywolf Press, 2017

Vendor: Harper Perennial, 2015
Type: Poetry.
Price: 16.19

The Essential Ginsberg by Ginsberg, Allen

Published by Harper Perennial, 2015

A Collection Of Essential Poems, Essays, Letters, Songs, And Photographs Which Aims To Introduce New Readers To The Scope Of Allen Ginsberg's Work In Its Prolific And Profound Diversity-- Introduction By Michael Schumacher -- I. Poems -- Ii. Songs -- Iii. Essays -- Iv. Journals -- V. Interviews -- Vi. Letters -- Vii. Photographs. Allen Ginsberg ; Edited By Michael Schumacher.

Vendor: Signet, 2008
Type: Poetry.
Price: 4.46

The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Signet Classics) by Poe, Edgar Allan

Published by Signet, 2008

Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s verse in this complete poetry collection.

Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti.

Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in poems such as “The Haunted Palace” and “The Conqueror Worm,” with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in “Eldorado” a talisman to hold during our darkest moments—a timeless gift from a great American writer.

Vendor: Pine Hill Press, 1982
Type: Poetry.
Price: 12.00

Voices of South Dakota II: An Anthology of Poetry by Davie, Dorothy I. (editor)

Published by Pine Hill Press, 1982

Vendor: Modern Library
Type: Poetry.
Price: 9.00

A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry by Aiken, Conrad

Published by Modern Library

Vendor: Hallmark Editions, 1970
Type: Poetry.
Price: 6.00

Haiku: Gems of Intimate Beauty in a New Collection of Classic Japanese Poetry by Hughes, Mary Dawson

Published by Hallmark Editions, 1970

Vendor: Watkins Publishing, 1999
Type: Poetry.
Price: 10.00

Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty by

Published by Watkins Publishing, 1999

Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, this expansive anthology gathers 600 poems by more than 250 poets. In addition to hundreds of masterworks in English, there are verses translated from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek, including selections from the great epics and meditations, such as the Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and Tao Te Ching. The writers represented here range from ancient and medieval greats (Homer, Lu Yun, Dante, Rumi, Judah Halevi) to the metaphysical poets, including Donne; from the mystics and religious poets (Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Hopkins) to more secular visionaries (Blake, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Rilke, Stevens, and Ginsberg). The range of themes is equally wide, so whatever path your journey may take, Poetry for the Spirit will open your mind and touch your heart.

Vendor: Contemporary Books, 1994
Type: Poetry.
Price: 4.00

101 Famous Poems by Cook, Roy Jay

Published by Contemporary Books, 1994

Vendor: South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2023
Type: Poetry.
Price: 9.00

One Wing Should Float: Poems by Pearson, Pen

Published by South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2023

Pen Pearson, a South Dakotan for more than thirty years, lives in Aberdeen, where she teaches creative writing, American literature, and composition. The poems in this collection, drafted in the Notes app of her iPhone, reflect Pen's interests in birding, cosmology, existential philosophy, and Christian mysticism, as well as her personal belief in the necessity of cultivating hope in the face of life's absurdities. Her poetic influences range from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop, but the writer whose influence Pen Most treasures is her mother, Ruth Elaine Dumkrieger Mueller. Pen's Poems have appeared in Pasque Petals, South Dakota Review, and South Dakota in Poems, among other journals and anthologies.

Vendor: South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2019
Type: Poetry.
Price: 9.00

West River: Poems by Nelson, John S.

Published by South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2019

The poems of West River transport readers to rural spaces while avoiding the trappings of sentimentality and plastic nostalgia. Moreover, readers are in the care of a poet who pays attention, who moves beyond the obvious and the easy. With vivid imagery, subtle humor, and clear language, these poems chronicle the particularities of everything from chickens to arrowheads, from horses to hay, from swearing to the Oahe Dam.

Vendor: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1979
Type: Poetry.
Price: 4.50

Poetry of Robert Frost by Frost, Robert

Published by Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1979

Vendor: Papier Mache Pr, 1991
Type: Poetry.
Price: 5.00

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Martz, Sandra

Published by Papier Mache Pr, 1991

Vendor: Papier-Mache Press, 2010
Type: Poetry.
Price: 5.00

I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted by Martz, Sandra

Published by Papier-Mache Press, 2010

I Am Becoming The Woman I've Wanted, The Latest In The Series Of Best-selling Anthologies (when I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple And If I Had My Life To Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies), Delves Into The Sometimes Hidden And Always Powerful Feelings That Women Have About Their Bodies. In The Emotionally Evocative Style That Characterizes Martz's Previous Collections, This Book Explores Coming Of Age, Sexuality, Childbirth, Physical Power, Menopause, Aging, And Much More. This Is More Than Just Another Book About Body Image. Using Her Talent For Bringing Together Extraordinary Stories, Poems, And Photographs About Women's Lives, Editor Sandra Martz Explores The Broader Question Of How The Physical Aspects Of Being Female Affect Women's Experiences. Sure To Be A Best-seller, This Anthology Will Have Women Reading And Thinking And Sharing For A Long Time. -- From Back Cover. Finding Her Here / Jayne Relaford Brown -- History Of The Body / Linda Nemec Foster -- Applewood / Barbara Crooker -- Room To Love / Jane Blue -- Fourteen / Pamela Ditchoff -- Foot Loose / Deborah Shouse -- Ceremony / Suellen Wedmore -- Butchering Time / Carol Newman -- Womansong / Marilyn Johnson -- A Place To Rest / Chris Mandell -- Everything That Falls Has Wings / Kathy M. Parkman -- The Fat Lady Speaks / Joanne Mccarthy -- Rhonda, From The Runway At Diamond Don's / Liz Abrams-morley -- Shadow Bush / Judith Infante -- Matchmaking / Stephany Brown -- Response To A Reading / Michele Wolf -- What I Know From Noses / Anndee Hochman -- The Makeup Poem / Jan Epton Seale -- Ode To Grey Hair / Alisa Wolf -- Shell Life / Shirley Vogler Meister -- La Maja Desnuda / Anne M. Candelaria -- Living The Green Life / Maril Crabtree -- The Spearthrower / Lillian Morrison -- The Marathon / Marnie Mueller. (cont.) Back Into This Body / Joyce Lombard -- Return To Campus / Christine Swanberg -- Crossing The High Country / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- To My Body / Judy Clouston -- Premenstrual Syndrome / Sharon H. Nelson -- Spa / Anne Giles Rimbery -- The Women's Side / Kim Ly Bui-burton -- Figure Problems / Allison Joseph -- Belly / Katharyn Howd Machan -- Contemplating A Breast Enhancement Operation / Rosaly Demaios Roffman -- Stretch Marks / Laura Apol Obbink -- Seeing The Earth From The Moon / Maureen O'brien -- Breastfeeding At Night / Susan Eisenberg -- Forever / Lu Carter -- Tapping A Stone / Jane Schapiro -- Before Stillbirth / Barbara Bolz -- After Hysterectomy / Barbara J. Mayer -- The Woman Whose Body Is Not Her Own / Anita Skeen -- Gathering Morning Fire / Kaye Bache-snyder -- Her Hair / Maggi Ann Grace -- Joan Has Her Ears Pierced / Bernice Rendrick -- Hearing / Jeanne Lohmann. (cont.) To My Eyes / Mary Mcginnis -- Menopause Poem / Sue Doro -- This / Ann Menebroker -- After Reading Mark Strand's Courtship / Beverly Voldseth -- Better Than Sex / Keddy Ann Outlaw -- To Women Who Sleep Alone / Amy Uyematsu -- The Pier / Michele Moore -- To Be Able / Billie Barbara Masten -- For S / Brenda Crank -- Examining The Heat Exchange Over A Mug Of Tea / Terry Blackhawk -- The Naked Truth / S. Minanel -- Plastic Surgery / Mindy Kronenberg -- The Nest / Sandra Redding -- This Insance Notion, She Says / Grace Butcher -- Take My Body / Elizabeth Weber -- Crone Drives Through Spring / Claudia Van Gerven -- Combustion / Susan Carol Hauser -- Osteoporosis / Mary Zeppa -- Lucy / Kathleen Patrick -- Rehabilitation / Elaine Rothman -- After Sixty / Marilyn Zuckerman -- Clay / Sarah Allen -- Spring Surge / Kay Loftus -- In Praise / Mary Sue Koeppel -- Volunteer Mourner / Marie Kennedy Robins. (cont.) The Present / Lori Russell -- The Lovers At Eighty / Marilyn Taylor -- Blackberry Wine / Ruth Moose -- The Year Alice Moved To The Attic / Kathryn Etters Lovatt -- A Living Will / Naomi Halperin Spigle -- If Death Were A Woman / Ellen Kort. Sandra Haldeman Martz.

Vendor: University of Michigan Press, 1997
Type: Poetry.
Price: 115.00

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerum natura by Titus Lucretius Carus

Published by University of Michigan Press, 1997

Lucy Hutchinson, born in 1630, was the daughter of Lucy St. John and Sir Allen Apsley, James I's Lieutenant of the Tower of London. In a time when the education of women was of little concern, Hutchinson was fortunate to have parents who saw to it that from an early age she had a good education, including French and Latin. She undertook her translation of Lucretius' poem De Rerum Natura in the 1650s: it was the first English translation of the poem by a woman, and possibly the first in English as well. Hutchinson's translation well represents the complex world view of the Roman philosopher Lucretius, and his curiously modern understanding of atoms and their role in science and nature. Hugh de Quehen's engaging volume presents Lucy Hutchinson's translation, together with considerable information on Hutchinson herself and on Lucretius, as well as a brief commentary on the intellectual and social climate of seventeenth-century England. He also presents a bibliography of the editions of Lucretius, published translations of Lucretius, writings of Hutchinson and her contemporaries, and later writings on Lucretius and Hutchinson. Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius will interest scholars of the classical tradition and of ancient science and philosophy, as well as those interested in English literary and history.

Vendor: Penguin Classics, 2006
Type: Poetry.
Price: 12.80

Selected Poems of William Blake (Penguin Classics) by Blake, William

Published by Penguin Classics, 2006

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth, or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits dominate and the mind is the gateway to Heaven. Presenting many of Blake’s major works in their complete texts, alongside extensive passages from such poems as "Jerusalem" and "The Gates of Paradise," this collection spans his entire poetic life, from the exquisite lyrics of Poetic Sketches to Songs of Innocence and Experience—a compelling exploration of good and evil. Together, they illuminate a self-made realm that has fascinated artists and poets as diverse as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Yeats, and Ginsberg. This is the perfect introduction to Blake’s unforgettable poetry.

Vendor: Modern Library, 2000
Type: Poetry.
Price: 11.20

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Classics (Paperback)) by Dickinson, Emily

Published by Modern Library, 2000

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of what Henry James called "the landscape of the soul." And as Billy Collins suggests in his Introduction, "In the age of the workshop, the reading, the poetry conference and festival, Dickinson reminds us of the deeply private nature of literary art."

Vendor: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1995
Type: Poetry.
Price: 15.00

The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets by Bill Moyers

Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1995

Vendor: Tasora Books, 2007
Type: Poetry.
Price: 9.00

The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them by Karin B. Miller

Published by Tasora Books, 2007

Vendor: Vintage, 1995
Type: Poetry.
Price: 9.00

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Hughes, Langston

Published by Vintage, 1995

"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar-. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music-. This book is a glorious revelation."-Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America-and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman.  Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed.  Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language. Publishers Weekly At last Hughes has gotten his first collected edition; it is overdue. The editors have attempted to collect every poem (860 in all) published by the writer in his lifetime, and have also provided a brief but informative introduction, a detailed chronology and extensive textual notes that include the original date and place of publication for each poem. In fact, this edition corrects the many errors and omissions of the standard Hughes bibliography, and the editors plan to update the text as more unpublished work surfaces. Although Hughes is best known for his poems celebrating African African life, he was also a passionately political poet who paid dearly for his communist affiliations and radical views. The chronological arrangement of the poems allows the reader to follow the course of Hughes's career-long political engagement, though probably Hughes will mainly be read for the clarity of his language, his wise humor and his insight into the human condition. BOMC selection. (Nov.)

Vendor: Beacon Press, 2004
Type: Poetry.
Price: 15.20

New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Oliver, Mary

Published by Beacon Press, 2004

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.

Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

Vendor: Dial Books, 2014
Type: Poetry.
Price: 8.00

How I Discovered Poetry by Nelson, Marilyn

Published by Dial Books, 2014

A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.

Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement.

A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.