Drawing on such unique sources as the author's unpublished letters, business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.Meet George Marvin Brush--Don Quixote come to Main Street [...]
From Sappho to Shakespeareto Cole Porter--a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.
The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, a[...]
This book presents Mozart's seven major librettos, translated into verse with a sparkling poetic quality that matches the magnificence of the originals. Beginning this epic endeavour with his translation of The Magic Flute, first introduced at the Metropolitan Opera, J.D. McClatchy has now completed[...]
Thoroughly updated and revised, a comprehensive collection of poems by America's greatest contemporary poets features works by Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lord, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, as well as new poetry by Mary Oliver, Sh[...]
Here is the first volume in a definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, which is also available as a deluxe boxed set, "The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin" (described below).
Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sen[...]
Here is the second volume in a definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, which is also available as a deluxe boxed set, "The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin" (described below).
Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened se[...]
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book ha[...]