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“stanley plumly”

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  • Search Party

    Collected Poems

    by William Matthews ...
    From the prize-winning poet: "A stunning volume . . . A master of the understatement, Matthews is wryly philosophical and self-deprecating." — BooklistWhen William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mission Work

    Poems

    by Aaron Baker ...
    In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea.Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker's experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore Western and tribal ways ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    **One of the California Review of Books' Best Poetry Books of 2025The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers.**Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Middle Distance

    Poems

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    The probing, commanding final volume from "one of contemporary America’s most gifted and influential lyric poets" (David Baker, Kenyon Review).After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance—looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Against Sunset

    Poems

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Immortal Evening

    A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.The author of the highly acclaimed Posthumous Keats, praised as “full of…those fleeting moments we call genius” (Washington Post), now provides a window into the lives of Keats and his contemporaries in this brilliant new work.On December 28, 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Old Heart

    Poems

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize.In Old Heart, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality in all its rich variety—in the detailed natural world at hand, in the immediacy of loss, and in his own personal encounters. Archetypal, sometimes even allegorical, the material and spiritual levels in these poems speak ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Elegy Landscapes

    Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters, from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author.Renowned poet Stanley Plumly, who has been praised for his “obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant” (Washington Post) nonfiction, explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Orphan Hours

    Poems

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    A luminous new volume from a National Book Award finalist and recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Posthumous Keats

    A Personal Biography

    by Stanley Plumly ...
    An acclaimed American poet reflects on the life and legacy of John Keats.Posthumous Keats is the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romanticists. John Keats's famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, dead of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Found Poems

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed. Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and the letters of Van Gogh. . . . the poet aims for a lucky, loaded symbolism that catapults the reader into an epiphany never imagined by the ... Read more

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  • The Apple That Astonished Paris

    Poems

    by Billy Collins ...
    Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems.In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new ... Read more

    $14.99 USD