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A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
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Poems 1962–2012
Fifty years of Glück's poems, her first eleven books in a single volume.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Averno
Poems that circle the myth of Persephone and her descent to the underworld, and the approach of age and death.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
All of Tranströmer's poems, half a century of short, luminous pieces about nature, music, dreams and the border between waking and sleep.
Wade in the Water
The former US Poet Laureate writes through Civil War letters, motherhood, and ecological grief, listening for the voices buried in the national record.
Devotions
Mary Oliver's own selection from a lifetime of poems about the natural world, attention, wonder and the discipline of noticing.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.
Pilgrim Bell
Poems weighing doubt and belief, Islamic faith and American life, silence and prayer.
Duino Elegies
Ten elegies Rilke began at Duino Castle on the Adriatic in 1912 and finished in a burst ten years later, asking who would hear him if he cried out, and what being human means beside the angels.
Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.
The Book of Hours
Prayers in the voice of a young monk addressing a God he imagines as unfinished and close at hand, the book that first made Rilke's name.