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The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan is a 2005 University of California Press volume gathering all the poetry of the New York School poet, edited by Alice Notley.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is a 1954 Knopf volume gathering the poetry of American modernist Wallace Stevens, which won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams is a two-volume New Directions edition covering 1909 to 1962, published in 1986 and 1988, restoring poems to their original sequences.
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 is a 2003 poetry collection gathering the complete poems of Nikki Giovanni's first seven volumes from 1968 to 1983.
The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson
The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson is a 1921 book by Angus and Robertson collecting the bush poetry of Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson from his three earlier collections.
The Collected Verse of Henry Lawson
The Collected Verse of Henry Lawson is a three-volume scholarly edition of the Australian writer's poetry, edited by Colin Roderick and published by Angus and Robertson from 1967 to 1969.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House, 1994) gathers the poems of her five poetry collections, including On the Pulse of Morning, Still I Rise, and Phenomenal Woman, in one collector's hardcover.
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore is a poetry collection assembled by the poet herself, first published in New York in 1967 and reissued with her final revisions in 1981.
The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr, منطق الطیر), also called Speech of the Birds, is a 12th-century Persian Sufi allegorical masnavi of about 4,500 couplets by Attar of Nishapur in which birds cross seven valleys to reach the Simorgh and find thirty birds, si morgh, reflected there.
The Country Without a Post Office
The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 poetry collection by Agha Shahid Ali, his sixth volume, centered on the violence that consumed Kashmir in the 1990s.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The Courtship of Miles Standish is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem, published by Ticknor and Fields, retelling the Alden family legend in which Priscilla Mullins tells John Alden, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
The Cranes of Ibycus
"The Cranes of Ibycus" (German: Die Kraniche des Ibykus) is an 1797 ballad by Friedrich Schiller in which murdered poet Ibycus's killers betray themselves when cranes appear.
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Cremation of Sam McGee is an 1907 narrative ballad by Robert W. Service from Songs of a Sourdough, telling of a Tennessee prospector frozen in the Yukon, cremated on Lake Lebarge, and revived by the fire.
The Crimean Sonnets
The Crimean Sonnets (Polish: Sonety krymskie) is an 18-sonnet cycle by the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, written in 1825–1826 after a journey across Crimea.
The Dance of the Eunuchs
The Dance of the Eunuchs is a poem by Kamala Das that opens Summer in Calcutta (1965), depicting eunuchs dancing to celebrate births they can never have.
The Darkening Ecliptic
The Darkening Ecliptic is a 1944 collection of sixteen modernist poems written by James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax under the invented poet Ern Malley.
The Daughter of Sláva
The Daughter of Sláva (Slávy dcera) is a lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Kollár, first published in 1824 and expanded into 645 sonnets by 1852.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is the second poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published by Knopf in 1984 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Dead Lecturer
The Dead Lecturer is a 1964 poetry collection by Amiri Baraka, published as LeRoi Jones, marking his turn from Beat bohemianism toward race-conscious political poetry.
The Dead of the Desert
The Dead of the Desert (Metei Midbar) is an epic Hebrew poem by Hayim Nahman Bialik, written in 1902 in Odessa about the Israelites who died in the wilderness.
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (Smrt Smail-age Čengića) is an 1846 epic poem by Ivan Mažuranić, telling of the Ottoman commander Smail-aga Čengić's death at Montenegrin hands.
The Death of the Bird
"The Death of the Bird" is a lyric poem by the Australian poet A. D. Hope about a migratory bird's final journey, dying in an indifferent universe.
The Death of the Hired Man
"The Death of the Hired Man" is a 1914 narrative poem in blank verse dialogue by Robert Frost, about a farm couple arguing over Silas, a dying former hired laborer.
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes (Смрт мајке Југовића) is a Serbian folk ballad in which a mother dies of grief after the Battle of Kosovo.
The Demesne of the Swans
The Demesne of the Swans (Лебединый стан, Lebediny Stan) is a book of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva about the Russian Civil War, written 1917–1921 and first published in Munich in 1957.
The Descent of Alette
The Descent of Alette is a 1992 epic poem by Alice Notley, following a woman through a subway underworld on a quest to destroy the tyrant.
The Deserted Village
The Deserted Village is a 430-line poem in heroic couplets by Oliver Goldsmith, first published in London in 1770, lamenting rural depopulation through the fictional village of Auburn.
The Divan of Fuzuli
The Divan of Fuzuli (Dîvân-ı Fuẓūlī) is the Turkish poetry collection of the sixteenth-century poet Fuzuli, gathering qasidas, ghazals, and rubais in an idiom between Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turkish.
The dragon (Beowulf)
The dragon (Beowulf): the unnamed fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding serpent of the Old English epic's final episode. Fifty feet long, it is woken by a thief, fought by Beowulf with Wiglaf, and kills the king.
The Dream of the Rood
The Dream of the Rood is an Old English poem of 156 lines in which the cross of Christ's crucifixion recounts the Passion in its own voice.