Twelve new poems and drawings selected from the Silverstein archives.

"Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing?his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy?during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly...

Sleeping in my mother's bed -- Twilight from the windo of my mother's hospital room -- One the air -- My father's day -- My mother's clock -- Eating the bones -- Last night -- The end -- Angels -- ritual -- My mother's painting -- Asking directions in Paris -- Gate C22 -- Discovering fire -- Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh -- Poem not for my son -- Birdsong from my patio -- Evolution -- The human line -- Dead butterfly -- Subway in Madrid --...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Whether memorized by schoolchildren or used to eulogize a president, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” written in 1922 and published in 1923, has found a place as one of the best-loved and best-known American poems of the last hundred years. Now, six decades after the passing of its author, Robert Frost, celebrated...

50 lyrical poems by the author express renewal of humanity in love and oneness with the natural.

"Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection,...

All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems for the first time collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and thirty remarkable new poems.

Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplins playful zLittle Trampy and Charlize Therons fierce zImperator Furiosa,y it would be Armantrout. Her language is unexpected yet exact, playing off the collective sense that the shifting ground of daily reality may be a warning of imminent systemic collapse. While there are glimmers here of what remains...