American/General
1. 
Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry
Tony Hoagland’s essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2019 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2019 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls" |
1.
Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry
Tony Hoagland’s essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2019 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2019 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls" |
2. 
Selected Essays, 1989-2007
A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Atlas" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Atlas" to Cart |
2.
Selected Essays, 1989-2007
A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Atlas" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Atlas" to Cart |
3. 
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2005 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2004 | $40.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
3.
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2005 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2004 | $40.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Selected Prose" to Cart |
4. 
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2004 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetry and What is Real" to Cart |
5. 
Essays
Pointed essays and an interview from one of contemporary literature's most engaging critics, poets, and editors
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2004 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Fables of Representation" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Fables of Representation" |
5.
Essays
Pointed essays and an interview from one of contemporary literature's most engaging critics, poets, and editors
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2004 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Fables of Representation" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Fables of Representation" |
6. 
An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry
The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Barrier of a Common Language" to Cart |
7. 
From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Metaphysician in the Dark" to Cart |
8. 
with Trial of a Poet
Now back in print, two brilliant verse-essays on poets and poetry by an American master
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Essay on Rime" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2003 | $45.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Essay on Rime" to Cart |
8.
with Trial of a Poet
Now back in print, two brilliant verse-essays on poets and poetry by an American master
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Essay on Rime" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2003 | $45.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Essay on Rime" to Cart |
9. 
Memoirs
The coming-of-age of one of America's best-loved poets, from his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia to his bohemian years in New York City
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Fly in the Soup" to Cart |
10. 
Ten More Years with Ray
Documents that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Soul Barnacles" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $40.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Soul Barnacles" to Cart |
10.
Ten More Years with Ray
Documents that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2003 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Soul Barnacles" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $40.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Soul Barnacles" to Cart |
11. 
Poetry and Identity
Essays and interviews on the relationship of color and the literary canon
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto" to Cart |
12. 
Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry
Eminently readable and refreshingly candid essays on literature and culture, by a master of many literary genres and forms
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Castle of Perseverance" to Cart |
13. 
American Poetry at Large
Reflections on the state of poetry and criticism by a master of both genres
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 2002 | $80.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Boundless Field" to Cart |
14. 
Essays on Poetry
How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Body and Soul" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Body and Soul" to Cart |
14.
Essays on Poetry
How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Body and Soul" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Body and Soul" to Cart |
15. 
Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
A rich assortment of the writings of rediscovered octogenarian poet Josephine Jacobsen
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2002 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Instant of Knowing" to Cart |
16. 
Toward an Autobiography
An extraordinary memoir from one of our most celebrated poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2001 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Bread of Time" to Cart |
17. 
Contemporary American Poetry
Appraises the work of significant American poets in engaging and erudite essays by a leading critic and scholar
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2001 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Negative Capability" to Cart |
18. 
A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2001 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Gazer Within" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Gazer Within" to Cart |
18.
A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2001 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Gazer Within" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Gazer Within" to Cart |
19. 
Writing on Poetry and Poets
A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Straight Line" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Straight Line" to Cart |
19.
Writing on Poetry and Poets
A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Straight Line" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Straight Line" to Cart |
20. 
A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams" to Cart |
20.
A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $19.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams" to Cart |
21. 
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
21.
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $73.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Blue Notes" to Cart |
22. 
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
22.
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $20.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Dancing at the Devil's Party" to Cart |
23. 
Essays
Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetry at One Remove" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Poetry at One Remove" to Cart |
23.
Essays
Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2000 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Poetry at One Remove" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $70.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Poetry at One Remove" to Cart |
24. 
Collects prose that crosses geographic, historical, and linguistic borders, engaging literature as an international activity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1999 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Responsive Reading" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Responsive Reading" to Cart |
24.
Collects prose that crosses geographic, historical, and linguistic borders, engaging literature as an international activity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1999 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Responsive Reading" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Responsive Reading" to Cart |
25. 
Interviews, essays, short stories, memoirs--and a recipe by this contemporary poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1999 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Route as Briefed" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Route as Briefed" to Cart |
25.
Interviews, essays, short stories, memoirs--and a recipe by this contemporary poet
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1999 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Route as Briefed" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $65.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Route as Briefed" to Cart |
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