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Poetry

Are you a lover of poetry? 

Rosenberg Librarians have selected the following books that they believe you'll like.  Check our online catalog to see if your choice is on the shelf.  If not, reserve it. 

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The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Every poem (with the exception of "Brother to Dragons") ever published by Robert Penn Warren, the first Poet Laureate of the United States.
--John Burt

Crossing Unmarked Snow
Essays, interviews, and poetry by revered poet and teacher William Stafford.
--William Stafford

Jack and Other New Poems
With death the central theme, poems of the body and praise songs for beloved animals explore how memory consoles and haunts.
--Maxine Kumin

The Blue Estuaries
Honored with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work.
--Louise Bogan

Notebook
Seamus Heaney : "Notebook is a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of blunt-edged force, which record not so much the public events of [the late 1960s] as the reactions which the events provoked in Lowell's consciousness."
--Robert Lowell

The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
The Complete Poemsooks North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

The Collected Poems of William  Carlos Williams
"And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet." Larry Kart, Chicago Tribune.

The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz
In 1995, Stanley Kunitz received the National Book Award in Poetry. the award reads in part: "In his genius, great clarity is joined to great generosity. His work shines with humanity, humor, precision, and passion."

The Darkness and the Light
In a series of poems written in the voices of biblical characters, Hecht provides a timeless backdrop for his powerful contemporary reflections.
--Anthony Hecht

The Eagle's Mile
James Dickey is the high flier of contemporary American poets.  In this book he is flying higher than ever, so high the earth is reduced to its elements, its essential radiance.
--James Dickey

Robert Frost Reads his Poetry
Features "The Road Not Taken", "The Pasture", "After Apple-Picking", "Death of a Hired Man", "Mending Wall", and others.
Audio Book