The poems selected for this volume are politically incorrect, spiritual, whimsical, clever, and charming. What else would one expect from the youngest of ten siblings who lived in holey-roofed houses, picked spinach and cotton, and rode stick horses; or from a man who jumped out of airplanes wanting to be a hero, survived a car wreck which rearranged his face and body, quit drinking at age fifty, divorced and remarried, learned to play the piano, took up drawing and oil painting, and delve...

WENDELL BERRY POETRY AT ITS BEST: Contains The Peace of Wild Things and nearly 200 other classics from the Kentucky poet’s most popular poetry collections“A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn New Collected Poems, Wendell Berry reprints the nearly 200 hundred pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poem...

A poetry collection roughly grouped around the motif of lines, much of this collection was written in 2006 and some was performed live as a part of the Creative Quill Bangkok Tour in 2006-7.Poems range from the opening long piece, that takes an in-depth look at "lines" throughout time, to poems drenched in love, both good love and bad. Existentialist themes are featured in some works, and some poems reveal aspects of the natural world.

"Young has always stood out for his sharp humor, boundless poetic energy, and sheer readability. If adventurous poetry can sometimes feel like a tenuous tightrope walk, Young's poems feel more like zip lines."-The Boston Globe"This book reads like a long, breathless thank-you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy."-Los Angeles TimesFall Higher is a major collection by one of America's most inventive and ent...

Our final destiny in life will be to join our creator in heaven after our long journey on earth ends. Before we go to the spirit, into the eternal light, we will learn what heaven is all about from a man who has more out of body experiences than most. With more of an extraordinary ability to receive and share visual information sent down from the heavens, spiritual messaging will come as a very big surprise. The inclusion of special meditations relieves inner tension, opens the spiritual e...

While known primarily for his translations from Russian, Andrey Kneller has also written a great deal of his own poetry. He was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. In 1993, when he was ten, his family immigrated to United States. He has been writing and translating poetry since the age of fourteen. His work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and journals, including National Forum, Gentle Reader, Unlikely Stories, and the Hypertexts. This book is a complete collection of his poe...

For those who have discovered life, in illness, difficulty and despair, I wish that on your wings you'll fly, to diamonds, stars and dizzying flare. -- Ekaterina D. Bojilova.

Phone poems are concise, precise, and often humorous 4 line verses that were originally written for the telephone answering machine. Volume 2, Simple Gifts,continues that tradition in the first part of the book with 333 such poems, mostly inspired by recent events in the authors life, especially his adventures with his dachshund, Simon, his love of nature, its creatures, the flowers and elements in his wifes garden (a new-to-the-garden old white door), the advent of winter and spring, ange...

Lines from Life presents a sensitive and touching collection of thoughts, dreams, and wishes by poet Peter Overduin. He offers a realistic view of lifes disappointments and failures, hoping to provide companionship and sympathy to those on journeys like his ownboth in times where there is only darkness and in those that hold a sweeter melancholy and even hope.From lost love to hopes and dreams, he delves into the emotional ups and downs of his everyday life. His poignant reflection...

"Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."—Albert Mobilio, SalonA superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, "Strip" and "Scat Scan." The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise—and always unmistakably his own.

The poems in this collection comprise a unity of poetic imagination. The connective tissue between them is a union of both time and space. Poetrys aim is to cast light on human experience, and even though several of these poems consist of inanimateness, each poem is still endowed with a familiar spirit, a whispering demon, a meditated plan of action.

You are about to embark on an odyssey of the imagination, so come on board and take your station as we explore new poetic worlds.Like the early 14th century explorer discovered new lands and claimed them in honor, so shall you, the reader, have the same opportunity.These untitled poems have spaces for you to write in what you think is a good title.If those were your poems what would YOU name it?Like historys early explorers there are even hidden treasures to fin...