Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.

Poems deal with death, childhood, marriage, love, parenthood, and family relationships

A collection of poems by the 19th century writer which reveals the full scope and diversity of her works

Selected translations from the poetry of the Sung Dynasty together with thirty-five poems by Tu Fu

Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity

Gathers poems by thirty-six writers from thirty tribes of American Indians, from Blackfeet to Tlingit

“I find myself taken by Patricia Kirkpatrick’s unsentimental tenderness—a mark, I believe, of all good lyric poetry.

More than two hundred poems from each of Lowell's books of verse shed light on the techniques, moods, and concerns that have characterized his distinguished career

A collection of T. S. Eliot's poems which concern cats including Mr. Mistoffelees, and Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat

Ezra Pound is destined to rank as one of the great translators of all time. Ranging through many languages, he chose for translation writers whose work marked a significant turning point in the development of world literature, or key poems which exemplify what is most vital in a given period or genre. This new enlarged edition, devoted chiefly to poetry, includes some forty pages of previously uncollected material. Anglo-Saxon: The Seafarer. Chinese: (Cathay) Rihaku (Li Po). Bunno, Mei Sheng, T'ao Yuan Ming. Egyptian: Conversations in Courtship. French: du Bellay, de Boufflers, D'Orl ns, Lalorgue, Lubicz-Milosz, Rimbaud, Tailhade. Prose: de Gourmont. Hindi: Kabir. Italian: Cavalcanti, St. Francis, Guinicelli, Leopardi, Montanari, Orlandi. Japanese Noh Plays: 15 plays with Fenollosa's commentary. Latin: Catullus, Horace, Navagero, Rutilius. Provençal: Bertrand de Born, Cercalmon, Daniel, Folquet de Romans, Li Viniers, Ventadorn.