From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

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The book burns with hate, love, self-loathing and anger. Plath wandered down among the roots of poetry, illuminating it - and then became her own fuel. 4 POET IN NEW YORK Federico Garcia Lorca ...

Books: Not So Modern Poetry. 3 minute read. TIME. ... Of the 15 poets in this book, more than half are teachers or have recently been teaching—a fact their verse betrays with retributive accuracy.

From seven books of poems written during twenty-five years of honorably single-minded effort, John Gould Fletcher has gathered in Selected Poems (Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50) the best of his work.

How I came to understand modern poetry When asked to moderate in-depth conversations with leading poets in front of an audience, Ron Charles realised he knew nothing about contemporary poetry.

Winning the 2017 Brooklyn Library Literary Prize, the 2018 American Book Award, and many more, Pico has successfully represented the LGBTQ+ community in poetry. Get to know Pico in this 2017 clip ...

Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows ...

Diane Seuss says, of writing her latest collection, “Modern Poetry,” “I really did feel that I didn’t know how to move forward without something like an answer.” ...

"The best contemporary poetry”, wrote TS Eliot, “can give us a feeling of excitement and a sense of fulfilment different from any sentiment aroused even by very much greater poetry of a past ...