Marianne Moore

"This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, concering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. In entertaining, informative notes, Moore reveals the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines within them." Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe.

Local Poets
	Adrienne Su We carry the three works by Dickinson's current English Department Chair and 2000 Poet-in-Residence.  A collection by Dickinson’s poet-in-residence, Adrienne Su, was named as one of About.com’s Best Poetry Books of 2009. The reviewer awarded an A+ score to Su’s latest book, Having None of It, and praised the collection’s depth and “transparent beauty in simplicity."
	John Taggart is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two books of criticism. He was, for many years, a professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. He lives near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Our Poetry Section has a great variety of poets--from the ancients to the very modern!
	Check out the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series!  These tiny, but lovely, hardback editions make great gifts!
	Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the 20th century, Dove has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities--from styles and voices to themes and cultures--while balancing important poems with significant periods of each poet.
	Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. "Swan," her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. "Swan "is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."
	Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, "Horoscopes for the Dead," the verbal gifts that earned him the title "America's most popular poet" are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union. With simple diction and effortless turns of phrase, Collins is at once ironic and elegiac....
	Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Charles Bukowski's, "The Pleasures of the Damned" is a selection of the best works from Bukowski's long poetic career, including the last of his never-before-collected poems.
	With a clear and accessible biography of Burns and his work, fifty-two of Burns poems and songs, a comprehensive glossary of Scots words, an index of first lines and line drawings of scenes from his life, this compact book combines quality, style and value.
	"Open Letter to Quiet Light" by Francesca Lia Block will make readers feel as if they are peering at secret writings meant for the eyes of a lover alone, but these carefully crafted lines somehow transcend the personal to touch everyone who has experienced this kind of consuming, wrenching love.
	A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyder.

	Millay at Steepletop is a loving documentary tribute by Kevin Brownlow to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York Farm.
	No matter how inspired an actor's reading of poetry might be, there's simply no substitute for hearing a poet read his or her own work. Even if the rendition itself is far from optimal, we hear the cadences, the emotion, and the line breaks exactly as the poem was intended. Since the early 1950s, Caedmon has been the unrivaled leader in spoken-word records and tapes. Though many of these performances are unfortunately out of print now, these three CDs give a taste of things past and, hopefully, to come. And with all but six of these 35 poets now dead, this is one of the few places we can hear the voices of William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, W.H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, Robert Graves, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, and the like.
	In February 1952, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings on a new record label called Caedmon. Now, gathered together for the first time in a stunning boxed set, "Dylan Thomas: A Caedmon Collection" contains those original Caedmon recording sessions, as well as recordings from the BBC, CBC, and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Abridged. 10 CDs.

Dual-Edition Foreign Language Poetry: Poetry as originally written by authors from around the globe.
	Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful appeal on all kinds of readers. The 116 poems collected in this new translation include the famous Lesbia poems and display the full range of Catullus's mastery of lyric meter, mythological themes, and epigrammatic invective and wit.
	"Beowulf" is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. But this volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, and (following "Beowulf") the poem Judith.  Translator: R. D. Fulk
	Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse translation with facing-page Italian combines maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the artistry necessary to reflect the original's virtuosity. They have produced the clearest, most accurate, and most readable translation of the three books of "The Divine Comedy," with unsurpassable footnotes and introductions, likely to be a touchstone for generations to come. (Italian/English)
	In this collection, haiku poet Yuzuru Miura has selected and translated poems by past masters such as Basho and Buson, as well as haiku by contemporary poets.
	A generous selection from the most dynamic modernist French poet, bilingually presented, with Raoul Dufy's woodcuts. Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his calligrammes'. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable.
	Translated by Bollingen Prize winner Walter Arndt, Pushkin Threefold is the acclaimed edition of Pushkin’s poems that includes three versions of each poem—the original Russian, a close translation into English, and a poetic verse translation reproducing as faithfully as possible the form, spirit, and flavor of the original. This indispensable volume contains 74 shorter poems; "Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters"; "The Bridegroom"; "Count Nulin"; Tsar Saltan"; "The Bronze Horseman"; and 22 stanzas from Eugene Onegin.
	The world's first substantial selection of dual-language (Chinese/English) poems of this great T'ang Dynasty poet.
	This bilingual selection of more than 50 of Nerudas best poems--edited and with an Introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets--also includes some poems previously unavailable in English.
	Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new German/English dual language edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger.