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Sense Poetry 76 Picks
Unique and provocative
selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended
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 What
Do We Know: Poems
by Mary
Oliver
"Oliver experiences the natural world with the innocent wonder of a child.
Her luminous poetry conveys this wonder as she describes the pink of the sun,
the blues and greens and whites of stones, a damp and mossy forest, a tree stump.
Reading her lines, we feel as if we are seeing nature for the first time."
- Suzy Staubach, UConn Coop, Storrs, CT
 Given
Sugar, Given Salt
by Jane
Hirshfield
"Hirshfield's poems urge reading and rereading. Ordinary objects are used
as vehicles to mirror life's struggles, and each poem has a refreshingly spare,
clean quality. Give this book as a gift to any loved one." - Dave Taylor,
Watermark Book Co., Anacortes, WA
 Sailing
Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
by Billy
Collins
"It's not like I have a crush on Billy Collins. Not like my otherwise sturdy
heart lurches sideways in my chest and smacks against a rib when I open his book
after a long time away. Not like I can't wait to read again about dogs and jazz,
bells and books, with a sigh and a silly, lopsided smile." - Trish Keady,
Christopher's Books, San Francisco, CA
Poetry
Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work, from Tennyson to Plath
by Elise
Paschen and Rebekah
Presson Mosby, eds.
"This is a great selection of poetry and a great opportunity to hear the
poets express what they have written. This gem also includes insightful commentary
by some of the more notable poets writing today." - Amy Hall, The Tattered
Cover, Denver, CO
 Poems
Seven: New and Complete Poetry
by Alan
Dugan
"Dugan is the most vital American poet since John Berryman: tough-minded,
edgy, emotionally violent verse with a potent lyrical cast." - Mike
Lindgren, Tudor Bookshop, Kingston, PA
 Memoir
of the Hawk
by James
Tate
"Tate is a brilliant wordsmith, and this new volume of poems displays his
abilities in an extremely accessible way. The poems are short, candid pieces about
odd yet everyday characters. There's often a sense of foreboding, but Tate keeps
it just a bit off the page." - Arsen Kashkashian, Boulder Bookstore,
Boulder, CO
 Star
in My Forehead
by Else
Lasker-Schuler
"These poems are excavations of the soul. Her words, fragments of an internal
city of experience. To read her is to feel, viscerally, an unrelievable passion.
A remarkable collection, this remains a lyric testimony to the incalculable depth
of the heart." - Karen Wallace, Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore, Los Angeles,
CA
 Plus
Shipping
by Bob
Hicok
"The National
Book Critics Circle just nominated Hicok for Animal
Soul. They were a book late; he should have been nominated for Plus
Shipping. Hicok is the Minnesota Fats of poetry, one who can bank a poem
off sturgeon, his uncle's funeral, and revenge, and sink it in the side pocket
of your heart. The best love poems going." - Susan Ramsey, Athena Book
Shop, Kalamazoo, MI
 The
Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen
by Rolf
Jacobsen
"How could a poet of such magnitude have been so ignored by American readers?
The translations are a collaboration by Robert Bly, Roger Greenwald and Robert
Hedin. The final six poems of this collection -- written of and to Jacobsen's
dying wife -- constitute one of the most moving elegies I've ever read."
- Peter Aaron, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
 Domestic
Work
by Natasha
Trethewey
"Selected by former poet laureate Rita Dove for the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry
Prize, this debut is a marvelously assured collection exploring African-American
heritage, civil rights, the work of women, and the sensuous work of the spirit.
These exquisite poems are full of individuals who live, hurt, jazz, love, celebrate,
sing, and, of course, work with dignity." - Herman Fong, The Odyssey
Bookshop, South Hadley, MA
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