"Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most beloved poets"--

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin...

Presents sixteen poems by twentieth-century poet T.S. Eliot, including such works as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Gift of the Magi," and "The Waste Land"; and provides explanatory notes and an introduction by literary scholar Helen Vendler

A collection of seventeen poems originally published in a single volume, plus thirteen other poems drawn from later books.

With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows." —Joyce Carol Oates,The New York Times

In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full...

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit-to...

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.

A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.

Brings together all the Cantos completed prior to 1952, including The Pisan Cantos which were composed during the author's incarceration in the prison camp near Pisa.