false 11368 39690 0143037676 9780143037675 55 <![CDATA[Good Poems for Hard Times]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169305439m/39690.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169305439s/39690.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39690.Good_Poems_for_Hard_Times 4.10 409 The Writer’s Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who’ve been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.]]> 2014 3.67 6943 1107 3036716 4.10 409 55 13275 3.99 48453 3158 75831 4.09 667 85 4089 4.13 758 112 7363 4.31 16546 1195 438 4.17 7618 826 120035 4.03 1031 136 120780 4.11 521 68 10547 4.39 6972 534 7440 4.25 6527 489 15200 3.86 1694 211 282786 4.10 416 56 77318 4.25 1798 157 15201 3.92 1087 123 10532 4.13 1265 143 29970 4.08 3013 298 7715 4.23 5185 417 375778 4.09 423 56 73432 4.15 1938 312 3195 3.82 915 172 15905 3.71 38755 3321 17055 3.95 4734 690 524417 4.22 2088 191 45673 4.09 720 141 216414 4.11 491 65 11978 4.27 2120 179 49240 4.02 635 125 147688 4.25 1060 129 11368 4.18 1472 168 78739 4.05 715 120 299116 4.10 423 58 2697 3.98 1455 187 304341 4.06 487 71 4025 4.20 1076 132 1624 3.41 69358 3143 32513 4.06 1535 183 33998 4.29 1931 196 3036717 4.10 409 55 192983 4.09 488 65 50090 4.11 3121 237 23988 4.34 5303 688 41028 4.22 1659 225 201001 4.07 452 61 138141 4.22 964 110 8567 4.25 6766 1069 16380 4.21 1745 225 86808 4.29 1643 162 41588 4.31 2453 244 13453 4.27 5560 355 356172 4.09 432 60 2005 18901 0395120985 9780395120989 36 <![CDATA[The Book of Nightmares]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167146152m/18901.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167146152s/18901.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18901.The_Book_of_Nightmares 4.37 316 11368 4.18 1472 168 1971 186757 0618154450 9780618154456 14 <![CDATA[A New Selected Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536276m/186757.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536276s/186757.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186757.A_New_Selected_Poems 4.19 135 A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell's myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early formalism blossom into long, joyous, almost Whitmanesque lines; but most of all, read it for the eagle's-eye view it provides of one of our finest American poets. Well into his 70s, Kinnell is still producing poetry as visceral as it is philosophical, forging the universal from the fleshy, messy specifics of life. "Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" comes the cry in "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible," a remarkable war poem that literally embodies his political anger. Throughout A New Selected Poems, which Kinnell has culled from eight previous collections spanning 24 years, that corpse burns fiercely, fiercely, as if to heed the poet's own warning from "Another Night in the Ruins":
How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?
Kinnell is a poet who feels life most keenly as it slips through his fingers. Nothing lasts, but this is less cause for lament than for celebration; after all, he tells us, "the wages / of dying is love." Before we break out the booze and have ourselves a ball, however, there are the poems from his brutal Book of Nightmares to consider, with their apocalyptic howling; his Vermont poems, with their "silent, startled, icy, black language / of blackberry eating in late September"; the noise and clatter of his early New York poems, "Where instants of transcendence / Drift in oceans of loathing and fear..." Kinnell is a poet with a leg in each world, one up above where the bears and porcupines live, and one down below, in what we might call the imaginative underworld. Witness the stunning progression of "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone," in which he is both Orpheus and a misanthropic Eurydice, singing himself back to the company of the human. How glad we are that Kinnell failed to look back! In the tender "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight," the poet advises his infant daughter, "Kiss / the mouth / that tells you, here, / here is the world." After reading these poems, you might feel like doing the same. --Mary Park]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 2000 1100551 0395320461 9780395320464 5 <![CDATA[Selected Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180985625m/1100551.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180985625s/1100551.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1100551.Selected_Poems 4.33 72 A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell's myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early formalism blossom into long, joyous, almost Whitmanesque lines; but most of all, read it for the eagle's-eye view it provides of one of our finest American poets. Well into his 70s, Kinnell is still producing poetry as visceral as it is philosophical, forging the universal from the fleshy, messy specifics of life. "Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" comes the cry in "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible," a remarkable war poem that literally embodies his political anger. Throughout A New Selected Poems, which Kinnell has culled from eight previous collections spanning 24 years, that corpse burns fiercely, fiercely, as if to heed the poet's own warning from "Another Night in the Ruins":
How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?
Kinnell is a poet who feels life most keenly as it slips through his fingers. Nothing lasts, but this is less cause for lament than for celebration; after all, he tells us, "the wages / of dying is love." Before we break out the booze and have ourselves a ball, however, there are the poems from his brutal Book of Nightmares to consider, with their apocalyptic howling; his Vermont poems, with their "silent, startled, icy, black language / of blackberry eating in late September"; the noise and clatter of his early New York poems, "Where instants of transcendence / Drift in oceans of loathing and fear..." Kinnell is a poet with a leg in each world, one up above where the bears and porcupines live, and one down below, in what we might call the imaginative underworld. Witness the stunning progression of "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone," in which he is both Orpheus and a misanthropic Eurydice, singing himself back to the company of the human. How glad we are that Kinnell failed to look back! In the tender "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight," the poet advises his infant daughter, "Kiss / the mouth / that tells you, here, / here is the world." After reading these poems, you might feel like doing the same. --Mary Park]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 1982 49461 0060956542 9780060956547 11 <![CDATA[The Essential Rilke]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359665m/49461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170359665s/49461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49461.The_Essential_Rilke 4.12 85 German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity.  His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century.  Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text.  In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words.  Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice  that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel.  These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.

]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 2000 186756 0618224971 9780618224975 15 <![CDATA[Strong Is Your Hold]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536275m/186756.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536275s/186756.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186756.Strong_Is_Your_Hold 4.01 84 11368 4.18 1472 168 2006 186758 0679732810 9780679732815 3 <![CDATA[When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536276m/186758.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536276s/186758.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186758.When_One_Has_Lived_a_Long_Time_Alone 4.09 81 11368 4.18 1472 168 1990 5354121 0395257174 9780395257173 0 <![CDATA[The poems of Francois Villon]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5354121.The_poems_of_Francois_Villon 0.0 0 55934 4.21 119 10 11368 4.18 1472 168 1917 197835 039575528X 9780395755280 4 <![CDATA[Imperfect Thirst]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172607749m/197835.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172607749s/197835.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197835.Imperfect_Thirst 4.06 49 11368 4.18 1472 168 1994 186759 0618219110 9780618219117 2 <![CDATA[Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536277m/186759.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536277s/186759.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186759.Three_Books_Body_Rags_Mortal_Acts_Mortal_Words_The_Past 4.11 36 11368 4.18 1472 168 1993 186761 0618219129 9780618219124 1 <![CDATA[The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536277m/186761.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172536277s/186761.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186761.The_Avenue_Bearing_the_Initial_of_Christ_into_the_New_World_Poems_1953_1964 3.87 39 11368 4.18 1472 168 1974 1256548 0395291269 5 <![CDATA[Mortal Acts Mortal Words]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182297574m/1256548.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182297574s/1256548.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1256548.Mortal_Acts_Mortal_Words 4.19 32 11368 4.18 1472 168 1980 5079059 144043932X 9781440439322 8 <![CDATA[Oranges & Sardines: Issue 3, Winter 2008]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224071316m/5079059.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224071316s/5079059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5079059.Oranges_Sardines_Issue_3_Winter_2008 4.90 21 183177 4.24 789 83 11368 4.18 1472 168 2083592 4.79 58 19 1680864 4.87 39 12 1431077 4.79 73 28 1408213 4.76 58 23 622302 4.96 45 20 602590 4.74 197 71 356175 4.77 124 46 325559 4.68 25 8 69610 4.53 142 65 28781 3.66 395 89 2104431 4.92 26 10 2008 197838 0395078563 9780395078563 2 <![CDATA[Body Rags]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197838.Body_Rags 4.39 23 11368 4.18 1472 168 1968 197840 0395393868 9780395393864 2 <![CDATA[The Past]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227917239m/197840.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227917239s/197840.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197840.The_Past 4.14 14 11368 4.18 1472 168 1985 197837 0472525301 9780472525300 0 <![CDATA[Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245680501m/197837.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245680501s/197837.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197837.Walking_Down_the_Stairs_Selections_from_Interviews 4.00 11 </div>]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 1978 1864052 0 <![CDATA[Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1864052.Flower_Herding_on_Mount_Monadnock 4.43 7 11368 4.18 1472 168 1964 1583644 0883658046 9780883658048 0 <![CDATA[Essential Whitman (Essential Poets Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1583644.Essential_Whitman 4.00 6 Leaves of Grass then was intense.... Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world .... Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 1987 3191893 1 <![CDATA[The Poems of Francois Villon]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245520771m/3191893.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245520771s/3191893.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3191893.The_Poems_of_Francois_Villon 4.25 4 11368 4.18 1472 168 1965 1108618 0819561347 9780819561343 0 <![CDATA[Eternity's Woods]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181069969m/1108618.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181069969s/1108618.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1108618.Eternity_s_Woods 4.00 4 106276 4.10 31 8 11368 4.18 1472 168 1985 186762 0865470162 9780865470163 1 <![CDATA[Black Light: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186762.Black_Light_A_Novel 3.00 3 11368 4.18 1472 168 1980 6007035 1 <![CDATA[What A Kingdom It Was]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6007035.What_A_Kingdom_It_Was 2.50 2
Library for Congress card number: 59-8860]]> 11368 4.18 1472 168 1960 197841 039532436X 9780395324363 0 <![CDATA[How the Alligator Missed Breakfast]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197841.How_the_Alligator_Missed_Breakfast 4.00 1 11368 4.18 1472 168 1982 2142963 157970459X 9781579704599 0 <![CDATA[Hard Prayer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2142963.Hard_Prayer 0.0 0 11368 4.18 1472 168 1991 197843 0853910138 9780853910138 0 <![CDATA[Poems of Night]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197843.Poems_of_Night 0.0 0 11368 4.18 1472 168 0 197844 0935716106 9780935716108 0 <![CDATA[Apparitions]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197844.Apparitions 0.0 0 11368 4.18 1472 168 1981 197849 9997011295 9789997011299 0 <![CDATA[The Poetry Voice of Galway Kinnell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197849.The_Poetry_Voice_of_Galway_Kinnell 0.0 0 11368 4.18 1472 168 1983