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.

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.

‘What a vision of paradise!’: 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 ...

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.

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.” ...

“Blaise Cendrars: Poetry Is Everything,” at the Morgan Library & Museum, is one of the most appealing and eye-opening shows of the summer — a concentrated pop of free-spirited trans-Atlantic ...

I was nervous. I had just been summoned to the Old Naval Hospital. I didn’t know exactly what I’d be told. Alarming medical results? No. Something more frightening: Poetry. If that word ...