The Colossus John Keene A rising star of contemporary

A rising star of contemporary British poetry reflects on race

and the act of poetic composition itself

imaginatively-crafted debut collection by one of Germany's most important contemporary poets explores the 'shifting of the mouth' toward the other

There seems to be a loose narrative

Sinan Antoon works in that tradition

The Colossus John Keene A rising star of contemporarySylvia Plath With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as 'The Beekeeper's Daughter,' 'The Disquieting Muses,' 'I Want, I Want,' and 'Full Fathom Five,' she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in