Ogoola Karuta is based on Japan?s oldest poetry game (Hyakunin-isshu Uta-Karuta). A game of intellectual martial arts as well as a parlor game for both families and schools. Ogoola Karuta in English contains quotations from 50 of the classical English poets. The box includes one Poetry Book, 50 Read[...]

As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The[...]

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, Jose Limon examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l[...]

W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad surve[...]

Playful, thoughtful, and important, the 28 poets collected here -- including pioneers of the Beat movement, many of whom remain not just relevant but vital to this day -- offer innovations on traditional and time-honored Buddhist poetic forms. "The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry [...]