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Seriously Funny
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Caroline Knox, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kevin Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Erin Belieu, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Martín Espada, Steve Fellner, Richard García, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kenneth Koch, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Frank O'hara, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Charles Harper Webb, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, Professor Adrian Blevins
Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3569-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3569-X

"Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the mi ..."






Seriously Funny(Updated)
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Andrew Hudgins, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Caroline Knox, Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor Adrian Blevins, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Professor Billy Collins, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Steve Fellner, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Professor Kenneth Koch, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Professor Frank O'hara, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, T. R. Hummer, Professor Erin Belieu, Professor Mark Halliday, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Alan Shapiro, Kevin Young, Martín Espada, Richard García, Charles Harper Webb, T. Hummer
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3087-7, ISBN: 0-8203-3087-6

"This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfooler ..."






The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry(Updated)
by J. D. Mcclatchy, Robert Lowell, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, Rich Wilbur
Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3093-4, ISBN: 1-4000-3093-5

"Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Other poets include: ..."






The Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin, Sharon Olds
Hardcover, Published 2012 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-00487-0, ISBN: 1-299-00487-3






The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Vol. One(2nd Edition)
Patients, Doctors, and Illness
by Sue E. Estroff, Jonathan Oberlander, Ronald P. Strauss, Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill, Eric J. Cassell, Katha Pollitt, James Dickey, Alice Stewarttrillin, Chris Feudtner, Bobbie Annmason, Melvin Konner, Atul Gawande, Marc D. Basson, Gerald Dworkin, Abenaa Brewster, Daniel Shapiro, David Hilfiker, Jerome Groopman, Leonard Fleck, Marcia Angell, Perri Klass, William Carloswilliams, Lawrence D. Grouse, Benjamin Freedman, Raymond Carver, Yehuda Amichai, Steven H. Miles, Miles J. Edwards, Susan W. Tolle, Sharon Olds, Timothy E. Quill, Charles R. Feldstein, Nancy R. King, Larry Churchill
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2005 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3555-9, ISBN: 0-8223-3555-7

"Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling "Social Medicine Reader." The "Reader" provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, a ..."






THE PUSHCART PRIZE Thirteen(13th Edition)
by Sara Suleri, Sharon Olds, Tess Gallagher, Editor-Bill Henderson, Charles Wright, Heather Mchugh, Laura Jensen, Dan Masterton, Marjorie Sandor, Chris Spain, Lawrence Shainberg, Gerald Costanzo, Sandra Alcosser, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Richard Ford, C. Henderson
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011699-1, ISBN: 0-14-011699-0

"The Pushcart Prize XIII (13): Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Prize)"






Letters to America(Updated)
Contemporary American Poetry on Race
by Jim Daniels, Alfred Encarnacion, Calvin Forbes, Charles Bukowski, Charles Fort, Cornelius Eady, Al Zolynas, Al Young, Amy Uyematsu, Betsy Sholl, Baron Wormser, Carolyn Kizer, David Ignatow, David Ray, Diane Glancy, Dudley Randall, Fareedah Allah, David Mura, Russell Atkins, Lucille Clifton, Toi Derricotte, Sam Cornish, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Jimmie Durham, Etheridge Knight, Gail Tremblay, Ernesto Trejo, Gary Soto, Francisco Alarcón, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Dr Christopher Gilbert, Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Ira Sadoff, Jimmy Santiago Baca, John Repp, Joy Harjo, James Wright Bsc, Kate Rushin, Langston Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Leo Romero, Linda Hogan, Lonny Kaneko, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Martin Espada, Michael S. Harper, Michael S. Weaver, Naomi Long Madgett, Nellie Wong, Peter Blue Cloud, Quincy Troupe, Richard Katrovas, Robert Winner, Sharon Olds, Simon Ortiz, T. R. Hummer, Thylias Moss, Tom Wayman, Professor Audre Lorde, Professor June Jordan, C. K. Williams, Yusef Komunyakaa, Colleen J. Mcelroy, Kevin Young, Christopher Gilbert, Audre Lorde
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1995 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2542-1, ISBN: 0-8143-2542-4

"Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian, Hispanic, and white culture, their diverse voices unite in a dialogue of poems which acknowledge and celebrate our differences while exploring America's shameful history of racial intolerance. The poets in this anthology include Gwendolyn Brook ..."






The Maverick Poets(1st Edition)
An Anthology
by Editor Steve Kowit, Billy Collins, Allen S. Ginsberg, Sharon Olds, Dorianne Laux, Jose Montoya, Frank Bidart, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gerald Locklin, Harold Norse, Gary Snyder, Collin Kowit
Hardcover, 146 Pages, Published 1988 by Gorilla Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-9610454-3-2, ISBN: 0-9610454-3-4






Amerikai költők a második ezredfordulón
by Wendell Berry, Michael Burch, Billy Collins, Russel Edson, Maggie Estep, Gary R. Ferris, Jorie Graham, Louise Glick, Erica Jong, Haron Esther Lampert, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, Sharon Olds, Jennifer Reeser, Wanda Phipps, Marge Piercy, Belinda Subraman, Charles Simic, James Tate, Marilyn L. Taylor, Cecilia Woloch, Joseph Mayo Wristen, Bagi István
240 Pages, Published 2016 by Ad Librum Kiadó Via Publishdrive
ISBN-13: 978-615-5686-17-7, ISBN: 615-5686-17-3

"American poetry has so much diversity of form and content that a translator has to attempt, for each individual poet, to include representative works that express unique tastes, thoughts, images and humors, in acceptance of the fact that ..."






Balladz
(Paperback)
by Sharon Olds
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2022 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-1161-0, ISBN: 1-5247-1161-6

""At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors ..."






Arias
by Sharon Olds
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13: 978-1-78733-215-7, ISBN: 1-78733-215-2

"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman’s intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother’s return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stan ..."






Arias
by Sharon Olds
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65693-7, ISBN: 0-525-65693-6

"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique harmonics and moral logic, a ..."






Arias
by Sharon Olds
208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65694-4, ISBN: 0-525-65694-4

"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from ..."






Gold Cell
Poems
by Sharon Olds
Published by Alfred A Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-1-199-48599-1, ISBN: 1-199-48599-3






Arias
by Sharon Olds
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-1160-3, ISBN: 1-5247-1160-8

"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique harmonics and moral logic, a ..."






Unswept Room
by Sharon Olds
Hardcover, Published by San Val
ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-0937-3, ISBN: 1-4177-0937-5






Love is a Place
by Joan Margarit, Anna Crowe, Sharon Olds
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-328-7, ISBN: 1-78037-328-7

"Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers. Born in 1938, he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and is now, arguably, Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In the much praised Tugs in the Fog: S ..."






Penguin Modern Poets 3
Your Family, Your Body
by Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire
128 Pages, Published 2017 by Penguin Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-198402-5, ISBN: 0-14-198402-3

"The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict Your Family, Your Body features the work ..."






Odes
by Sharon Olds
128 Pages, Published 2016 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4630-1, ISBN: 1-4735-4630-3

"Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way ..."






Odes
by Sharon Olds
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49362-0, ISBN: 0-451-49362-1

"Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender “Ode to the Hymen,” Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as a daughter, mother, wife, lover, friend, and ..."



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