Celebrating National Poetry Month: Alumni Poets

This exotic book explores the unique beauty of Australia from space, with photographs taken by astronauts aboard the space shuttle and international space station. Six-time space shuttle astronaut and payload commander of the first Hubble space telescope repair mission, Story Musgrave, selected each of the photographs. Story Musgrave is renowned for his space photography and his knowledge of geography. For this beautiful glimpse of the remote continent, he has written pertinent and poetic captions to complement each of the images. The book is filled with spectacular colors, geographic and regional detail, offshore islands, and panoramic views of Australia from space.

Featuring an outlandish menagerie of madcap rhymes and extraordinary animals, this book includes over 40 poems from the mind of Robert Forbes.

The interrogation of life, motherhood, and love in the USA through the lens of a single, black mother.

This volume --- Mr. Auden's first collection of new poems since "About the House" (1965) -- reveals the continuing development of one of the most remarkable poetic voices of our time. Mr. Auden's new book opens on a note of dread and anger, though touched with irony, and concludes with a prologue which celebrates the well-remembered world that made him, acknowledges with some affection the city that now houses him, and prays that he and an increasingly alien world may still have a voice in common.

For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition." Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a definitive edition of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of "Lord Weary's Castle," winner of the Pulitzer Prize, to the brilliant willfulness of his Imitations of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his" History," winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, "Day by Day." The book will also include several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts. As poet and critic Randall Jarrell said, "You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece." Lowell's "Collected Poems" will offer the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse.

Winner of the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award, Richard Eberhart is one of America's most respected and acclaimed poets. Eberhart's poetry, celebrated for its profundity and humanity, has won praise from fellow poets as various as Robert Penn Warren and Dame Edith Sitwell. This collection represents a comprehensive record of the work of a major American poet.

Poetry. "Donald Platt's aptly titled and arresting fourth collection of poems, DIRT ANGELS, examines how we exist in states of physical disrepair, decay, and disability: the world's transience exhibited in the slow degradation of our very consciousness and flesh. And yet this awareness should not incapacitate us, Platt suggests; rather, it should further disarm us to the fleeting charms that make up a life: the corruptible beauty in the bodies of our children and loved ones, the ways language itself haphazardly'cross-pollinate[s], misspoken and misheard' and yet still blossoms. DIRT ANGELS offers its readers resolute, if embattled, joyfulness through Platt's gorgeous language: itself a sinuous vocabulary of praise even in the face of mishap and pain"---Paisley Rekdal.

A collection of 60 poems expressing Herman Melville's perspective about his life aboard a whaleship and among natives in the Marqueses Islands.

Author's Note:
"Writing poetry, the real project of it, where the crafting comes in, is in revision. I get to pay attention to the look and feel of my poems when I am revising. The poems become testament and tribute to what I have experienced. I often make the case that every poem is a love poem, simply because of the attention given both to the subject and the craft. We pay attention because we care. And writing poetry helps me care more, care better."

Poetry. Women's Studies. Greek Studies. Translated from the Greek by Sarah McCann. Maria Laina's debut English collection. Laina's poems carve symbolically rich images drawn from mythology and the natural world. Rose Fear follows in the Sapphic vein: fragmented, prophetic, and emotionally charged. Sarah McCann in her translations deftly captures the music and the vividness of Laina's scenes, which take their inspiration from regions as diverse as Japan, the Caribbean, and her native Greece. Yet always behind the recognizable world lie the rhythms and lights of the fairytale, the fable, and the spell.