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Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

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Hidden treasures of a great artist
Gems from among the leavings
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The Making Of A Poet

Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
Elizabeth Bishop
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover

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Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It

ASIN: 0374146454
Release Date: 2006-03-07

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From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allen Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies.

This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.

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Hidden treasures of a great artist.......2006-08-21

The question regarding whether to publish the unpublished work of great authors is indeed a vexing one, especially in this case since the poet evidently chose not to release these.
However, just as in the case of the notebooks of great philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche, one often gleans riches from their fragments. Elizabeth Bishop is a great poet, and there are treasures of all kinds here--images, rhythms, narratives.

Gems from among the leavings.......2006-06-10

This rather strangely titled book is a tribute to the demand for Elizabeth Bishop's work. It is a set of pieces gleaned from some 3,500 pages in the Vassar College library collection. Not exactly random (but almost) here are 108 poems, some prose, notes she took, some sketches, some facimilies of her papers, some sketches she made, and other pieces harder to describe.

Obviously this is a book that will appeal most to people who are already Elizabeth Bishop fans. This is more of a work in process. It tells more about her as a person, it illustrates the great effort she went to get her poems just right before sending them off for publication. It shows something of the way her mind worked.

The work here is not Ms. Bishop's best. It's unfinished. Some of the shorter pieces, fragments really, make you wonder where she might have taken it.

Please publish Collected Poems in hardcover.......2006-04-15

This book's availability in hardcover makes the unavailability of Bishop's "Collected Poems 1927-1979" in hardcover hard to fathom. FS&G, please reprint EB's collected poems in hardcover as well as paperback. Thanks.

The Making Of A Poet.......2006-04-02

Elizabeth Bishop published less than 100 poems prior to her death in 1979. This new collection is similiar to a box CD set of studio out-takes of a rock musician : not essential for the causal reader but a must for a true believer of the artist. It is the definitive edition of her unpublished work with extensive notes and annotations. Some of her private poetry is considerably more erotic and emotional than her previously published work and the new poems (over 100+) are the reason to buy this edition. Having said this, the reader is referred to "The Complete Poems, 1927-1979" (1983) of Elizabeth Bishop.

A Little Book Of Tribune Verse-A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

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A Little Book Of Tribune Verse-A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay
Eugene Field
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GVFXTG

A Season in Granada: Uncollected Poems & Prose

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Like a vacation to Granada
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A Season in Granada: Uncollected Poems & Prose
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: Anvil Press
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain

ASIN: 0856462993

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A poignant and dazzling celebration of the magical city of Granada, where Lorca grew up, to which he returned -frequently in his life and in his imagination, and where he would die.

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Like a vacation to Granada.......2004-07-07

I have not been to Granada, but I have felt the colors, and there are colors everywhere! "The wind was red", "What grey moon at nine o'clock drained your cheek of blood", "The ear of corn, is holding its hard, yellow, laugher". This book is a visit to a historic city "with all the elegance and light sent by the Sierra " Nevada. There is a feeling of flowing water with many water allegories, not just from the River Darro but even include the Allhambra Palace (the fortress from 1239) has its own flow ("to be alone with the breeze that comes from old hills of the Allhambra"). The smells are delicious, with "a breeze of sweet basil" and a "bonfire of saffron".

What a great thing it must have been to receive his letters! "A few days ago, a green-purple moon, appeared in the bluish mist of the Sierra Nevada, and just across the street a woman was singing a cradle song that tangled itself into the landscape like a golden stream". They really reveal who he is, "I imagine myself to be an immense violet-colored dragonfly over the backwaters of emotion".

Even if that Granada of the 1930's no longer exists, or, if even then, existed only in Lorca's mind, I feel privileged to have experienced it.

Reviews of A Season in Granada.......1998-11-07

Elizabeth Lowry in TLS (August 7, 1998)

[A] thoughtfully arranged and beautifully produced volume.... Although the quantity and strength of the material is impressive --the book contains sixteen previously uncollected items, including two long poem-sequences and two substantial essays, one of which, "Granada: Paradise Closed to Many", is now published in English for the first time-- its subject-matter alone would make it an indispensable companion to the rest of Lorca's writing. For this is Lorca's celebration of Granada, the city to which his family moved when he was eleven and to which he remained emotionally and culturally indebted for the rest of his life....

John Burnside in Poetry Review (Summer 1998)

Few poets have such highly-developed senses as Lorca (who was also a musician and an artist); few trust so deeply in the senses of the reader. This, indeed, is one of the great pleasures of reading Lorca's poetry: this sense of privilege, of being included in a rich, subtle and slightly dangerous sensual world. Again, Maurer succeeds admirably, in the selections made here, in conveying Lorca's world view.... I can think of no better celebration of the centenary of this great poet's birth than A Season in Granada; buy it, read it, and encounter, not only a great poet, but the mysterious beauty of a great city.

Late Fire Late Snow: New and Uncollected Poems

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Late Fire Late Snow: New and Uncollected Poems
Robert Francis
Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
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Robert Francis: Collected Poems

ASIN: 0870238140

The Alchemist to Mercury: An Alternate Opus: Uncollected Poems 1960-1980

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An outstanding collection from a master poet

The Alchemist to Mercury: An Alternate Opus: Uncollected Poems 1960-1980
Robert Kelly
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
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ASIN: 0913028835

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An outstanding collection from a master poet.......2000-04-12

This collection of work by one of America's most important post-modernist poets was painstakingly gathered by Jed Rasula from some of the obscure literary magazines and small presses that Robert Kelly has favored throughout what has now become a long and always distinguished career. Very few of these poems have appeared in Black Sparrow's elegant collections of Kelly's work, and The Alchemist to Mercury is therefore a major contribution to Kelly's readership and to literary scholarship. The volume's first title poem, The Alchemist, first appeared long ago in Kelly's own little magazine Trobar, was reprinted in his Controversy of Poets anthology for Anchor Doubleday in the late '60s, and had long been generally unavailable. It is as exciting, fascinating, and affecting a poem as any of us will find in any era, with a clarity of image and urgency pulsing through every line. This volume of previously uncollected work is altogether stunning in its scope as it displays the precosity of Kelly's early work and plots its development toward his present stature as a giant of our literature.

Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988

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Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988
Maxine Kumin
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Selected Poems 1960-1990
So There: Poems 1976-83 (New Directions Paperbook)

ASIN: B000FUO056

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Collected here for the first time, these early poems inhabit Kumin's own "sneakstorm time," a space one step to the side, where quiet introspection examines the pain of loss, the idealism of youth, and the endurance of the natural world. Her characteristic earthy wisdom snaps with intensity, offering a refreshing perspective on everyday experiences.

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Uncollected Poems (Oxford Poets)
Basil Bunting
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Uncollected Poems
Rainer Maria Rilke
Manufacturer: North Point Press
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New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition
The Book of Images
Letters to a Young Poet
Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus
Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library)

ASIN: 0865474826

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Edward Snow has done the poetry-reading world a tremendous service in translating and collecting these previously obscure pieces of Rainer Maria Rilke's. The poems were written late in Rilke's career, and continue his lifelong concerns with the deepest and subtlest questions of being. Beautiful and lyrical writing fills these pages, as in this untitled poem, written in Paris in March, 1913: "We don't know what we spend: / all that's named is past and each being / invents itself at the last second / and will hear nothing ..."

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Translated by Edward Snow Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry-the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he wrote poetry continually, often prolifically-in letters, in guest books, in presentation copies, and chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. The body of this uncollected work in German exceeds five hundred pieces, a remarkable number of which must be counted among Rilke's finest poems. They range from finished poems of great poise and brilliance, to headlong statements that hurtle through their subjects, to hauntingly self-contained 'fragments,' to short bursts that arc into the unpursuable. Together they share a nakedness and an immediacy of voice that make them feel uncannily contemporary and draw the reader close.

Edward Snow's selection of more than a hundred of these little-known and neglected poems-the first edition of such scope for the general reader-distills the best of the uncollected poems while offering a wide enough choice to convey Rilke's variety and industry during the years he wrote them. These poems reveal a freer, more dangerous, less self-fashioning Rilke than the poet of the Elegies and the Sonnets; and Snow's translations of them, while always scrupulously faithful to the German, bring Rilke's power and music into English with unmatched grace and intelligence. Taken together, these translations offer the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated achievements in all of modern poetry.

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Wonderful Collection.......2007-02-08

Rilke was one of the great imagists of the century. This collection contains magnificently translated poems by Edward Snow, who manages to capture the grace and power of Rilke's work. It is not altogether clear whether or not these poems were intended for publication, but it is a miracle that they were.

Rilke was a poet of images and of feelings, he captured again and again the feeling of man the individual caught in the sublime beauty of the earth and the cosmos:

"Earlier, how often, we'd remain, star in star,
when from the constellation the freest,
the announcing star, stepped forth and called.
Star in star we marveled,
He, the speaker of the star-sign,
I, my life's companion star.
And the night, how it granted us
The wide-awake accord" (235).

An excellent bilingual edition on the whole and a must for any reader of modern poetry.

Poetry Transcending Borders.......2005-02-05

Edward Snow's translations of Rilke are always beautiful. As a non-German speaker, I don't have the luxury of commenting on the purity of the translation, but having had the opportunity to compare Snow's translation of Duino Elegies to an older textbook version, I would say that Snow has a firm grasp on both the significance and the beauty of Rilke's poetry.

For those who have never read Rainer Maria Rilke, I strongly recommend beginning with these poems. While all his poetry books are powerfully moving, this one rises above the rest in its maturity, and also, due to its "uncollected" nature transcends the bounds of thematic elements. The arrangement is lovely, but I urge you to open this book at random. Whichever poem you turn to will gain different contours in the light of different moods, yet each has lines that resonate-you will find yourself remembering these gems at scattered moments, even months after reading them.

Wonderful, and some people might know what this is about........2000-03-27

This book contains my favorite poem, but explaining it could be like trying to contend that 2001 is a really great year because it might help ordinary people realize how elements of life might be like understanding the line, "until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit." For me, this is the kind of poetry that Harold Bloom was trying to explain in his book, THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE/A THEORY OF POETRY, though Bloom's ideas ranged from Milton, with the question, "Why call Satan a modern poet?" (Bloom, p. 20) to more modern poets without suggesting that Rilke might have topped them all in approaching the capability suggested in Bloom's quotation from Kierkegaard, "What inwardness he might have attained!" (Bloom, p. 76). My favorite poem by Rilke starts with the line, "Long you must suffer, knowing not what," and ends with the assertion, "No one will ever talk you out of it." This poem explains as much about how an individual can feel, when utterly singled out by perception, as any of the puzzles that philosophy typically gropes its way through in its efforts to find a world that any one person can understand. And the other poems in this book are also outstanding attempts to deserve the honor of being considered great poetry on a very personal level. Among the host of contenders, the one which is easiest to find begins with the German word, "Aber," so it appears first in the German index. The English translation seems to be suggesting something. "But if you'd try this: to be hand in my hand / as in the wineglass the wine is wine. / If you'd try this."

Beautiful Translation!.......1998-10-07

A beautiful translation as usual from Edward Snow. One of my more favorite books in my Rilke collection. Retains the beauty of the german to a high degree. Poems you may not see anywhere else anytime soon, and some fragments which are absolutely lovely.

Spectral Waves: New And Uncollected Poems

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Spectral Waves: New And Uncollected Poems
Madeline Defrees
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001
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The Book of Accident (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))

ASIN: 155659240X

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"DeFrees is committed to rigorous, even ritualistic, forms and a dense economy and precision of language."-Poetry

Brimming with characteristic charm and careful regard, Madeline DeFrees ranges in scope and scale from sonnets about Elvis, a poem-cycle about sculptor Henry Moore, and lyrics about cataracts. DeFrees's poems are filled with daily encounters-birds outside the window, trips to the doctor, the plants in her well-tended garden-yet she brilliantly elevates these subjects beyond the personal.

From "A Crown of Sonnets for 'The King'":

"D.O.A."

Although the mourners know his fate is sealed
they can't give up on God, Who may come through.
They cast about for something more to do:
into Emergency, the patient's wheeled.
The human curtain parts. Aides leave the field
to doctors who inject the heart and who
start IV drips, then shock a time or two
the organ grown so large with caring that it failed.

Why are we working on this corpse? The nurse
throws up her hands. The crew, shocked back to normal,
admits discretion is the better part of valor.
They'll stare suspicion down, advise, rehearse
the clothes that Elvis wears for his last formal.
Up to this moment, blue was his favorite color.

At 17, Madeline DeFrees entered a Catholic convent and remained a nun for 38 years. She has published nine volumes of poetry and has taught at universities and colleges throughout the United States. Her most recent book, Blue Dusk, won the Lenore Marshall/The Nation prize. She lives in Seattle.

Heartbeat Geography: Selected & Uncollected Poems

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Heartbeat Geography: Selected & Uncollected Poems
John Brandi
Manufacturer: White Pine Press (NY)
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