Poetry.A selection of poetry titles from the library’s collection, in celebration of National Poetry Month in April.
** indicates that the author is a United States Poet Laureate.
A New Selected Poetry ** The Collected Poems of ** The Complete Poems, Galway Kinnell • 811.54 KI Robert Lowell 1927-1979 Robert Lowell; edited by Frank Elizabeth Bishop • 811.54 BI Behind My Eyes Bidart and David Gewanter • Li-Young Lee • 811.54 LE 811.52 LO The Complete Poems William Blake • 821 BL ** The Best Of It: New and ** The Collected Poems of Selected Poems William Carlos Williams The Complete Poems Kay Ryan • 811.54 RY Edited by A. Walton Litz and Walt Whitman • 811 WH Christopher MacGowan • The Best of Ogden Nash 811 WI The Complete Poems of Edited by Linell Nash Smith • Emily Dickinson 811.52 NA The Complete Collected Poems Edited by Thomas H. Johnson • of Maya Angelou 811.54 DI The Collected Poems of Maya Angelou • 811.54 AN Langston Hughes The Complete Poems of Arnold Rampersad, editor; David Complete Poems, 1904-1962 John Keats Roessel, associate editor • E.E. Cummings; edited by John Keats • 821.7 KE 811.52 HU George J. Firmage • 811.52 CU
E.E. Cummings Elizabeth Bishop William Blake Emily Dickinson
Ocean City Free Public Library 1735 Simpson Avenue • Ocean City, NJ • 08226 609-399-2434 • www.oceancitylibrary.org Natasha Trethewey Pablo Neruda Robert Frost W.B. Yeats Louise Glück
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Plath: Poems ** Selected Poems Basho, Buson, and Issa Sylvia Plath, selected by Diane Mark Strand • 811.54 ST Edited and with verse translations Wood by Robert Hass • 895.6 HA Middlebrook • 811.54 PL Selected Poems James Tate • 811.54 TA The Essential Rumi The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Translated by Coleman Barks, Edited and with an introduction Selected Poems with John Moyne, A.A. Arberry, by Ilan Stavans; translated by W.B. Yeats • 821.8 YEA Reynold Nicholson • 891.5511 Miguel Algarin • 861.62 NE JA ** The Seven Ages ** The Poetry of Robert Frost: Louise Glück • 811.54 GLU ** Native Guard the Collected Poems Natasha Trethewey • 811.6 TR Edited by Edward Connery ** The Shadow of Sirius Lathem • 811.52 FRO W.S. Merwin • 811.54 ME Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 ** Sailing Alone Around the Seamus Heaney • 821 HE Room: New and Selected Poems Billy Collins • 811.54 COL
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Li-Young Lee Kay Ryan Walt Whitman Seamus Heaney Sylvia Plath