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Volume two of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in 2009 by RTE. Volume two contains four collections published between 1979 and 1991: Field Work, Station Island, The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things.

One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.

Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks listeners through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick listen or to be grouped together as a curriculum.

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hides in plain sight. Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast) has built a large audience of social media followers and podcast listeners with his strange, vibrant appreciations of nature. Ranging from contemplations of mortality to appreciations of single-celled organisms, the poems in this collection highlight our connection to a living universe and affirm our place in a wilderness worthy of our love.

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren. In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience.

Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Su impacto en sucesivas generaciones de poetas, comenzando por la Generación del 98, a la que Machado pertenece, o por la Generación del 27, aún se siente y es reconocible en las voces a ambos lados del Atlántico, en España e Hispanoamérica.

Cameron McGill’s debut collection of poetry, In the Night Field, spotlights the effects of memory: its startling artistry, varied discontents, and casual fallibility. These poems chart the complex relationship between mental health and place; the difficult paths home can be lonely and circuitous, the emotional coordinates we map along the way a reminder of those intimate regions that hold and haunt us. Between the attentive, persistent self and the longed-for, absent other arises a fragmented conversation, an exchange that’s in a constant state of arrival.

Life is tough and full of hard times and heartache, but it’s also beautiful and plush and vibrant. Walk Through a Field of Flowers is a collection of poems gathered over a lifetime starting as a young child. Some are autobiographical, others are written as an observer of life and other people’s struggles or situations. The author has added her own thoughts about each poem and explained the meaning and origin; sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and occasionally with a little humility.

This is a collection of 109 sonnets in various meters and rhymes, on many subjects. Poetry lovers will appreciate and enjoy the challenge of the sonnet forms.

The narrator pledges to donate 50% of his proceeds to The Royal British Legion Poppy Day Appeal - please support. "In Flanders Fields" is one of the most famous poems of The Great War, written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD, 1872-1918. It is believed that McCrae wrote the poem after presiding at the funeral of a friend killed during the second Battle of Ypres, in 1915. The poppy grew in abundance in the spoiled earth of the cemeteries and battlefields of Flanders, France.

Carl Phillips' new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten.

The Sunflower Fields is the first in The Canticles series. It is a collection of words which became poems of my soul. They are meant for you the reader to enjoy as you move the words across your tongue and mind speaking them to your own soul. Each poem is about the beauty which is within the flowers which follow the sun in their day to day existence seeking its rays to grow and flourish. They are written by my hand, but they are not meant to be kept still upon the page. They are seeking to be released and, in that freedom, find your soul. Listen.

Experience. It's embedded in silent moments in the break room, passing encounters with strangers in a big box store, and medical crises in a veterinary hospital. Sarah Field uses brief prose and sparse dialogue to capture meaning in everyday occurrence. A short collection of poetry and select paragraphs, Speak to the Card offers a thoughtful and perceptive glimpse into who we are and what makes up our lives.

Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.

Writing from her own struggles, experiences, and insights, Crump has compiled a beautiful and evocative collection of verse for those struggling with life, love, loss, and self-worth. These pieces are eloquently woven together in an honest and full-color story of the human experience - a story of triumph by way of positive transformation, self-healing, patience, and understanding.