1. The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Publisher: Hyperion
Written By: Caroline Kennedy

Timed to the publication of the author+s new illustrated children+s book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially priced gift editionJacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. -Once you can express yourself,+ she wrote, +you can tell the world what you want from it+All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by more..

2. Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Written By: Les Murray

In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For more..

3. A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life
Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts
Written By: Leonard Nimoy

"We are star-met. We are joined. We are blessed. We who have found each other. We are the dream of the ages. We are the hope, the desire. We are love."

With this tender and contemplative collection of poetry, multifaceted poet, actor, and director Leonard Nimoy welcomes us into his world of quiet reflection and joyous love. Best known for his role as Mr. Spock in the enormously popular more..

4. Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl
Publisher: Copper Canyon Classics
Written By: Georg Trakl

"Trakl's poetry is amazing. His reader is gifted with visions of a darker world, an autumnal place of surreal beauty and a dying splendor. It is not a world friendly to people—it is full of death, desolation, and decay, strange creatures and arcane gods. But it is beautiful nonetheless. Hauntingly beautiful."—Chris Faatz, Powells.com

"I do not understand them; but their tone more..

5. Tigers at Awhitu (Oxford Poets)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Written By: Sarah Broom

Passionate and carefully crafted, this collection of poetry offers an unflinching exploration of life and death and of the spirit’s relationship to the world. Charting the drifts and tides of intimate relationships, these poems emerge out of a profound connection with the stunning New Zealand landscape, which is experienced as nurturing and menacing, tender more..

6. Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Written By: Clive James

“A generous helping of [James’s] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow.”—Billy Collins

Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James’s poetry to an American audience.

Praised after the publication of Cultural Amnesia as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation, Clive James is now, with more..

7. From Unincorporated Territory [Saina]
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
Written By: Craig Santos Perez

Using a replica of the native Chamorros' outrigger boats as his figurative vessel, these poems explore the personal, historical, cultural, and natural elements of the poet's native Guam. Combining and contrasting the fragmentary myths of the author’s island ancestors, intimate childhood stories of growing up on Guam, and the history of his family’s immigration to the United more..

8. A Human Pattern: Selected Poems
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Written By: Judith Wright

Written by one of Australia’s best loved poets, Judith Wright, this compilation presents her best work from 1946 to her last collection, published in 1986. Devoted to place and responsive to landscape and to the violence toward the land and its inhabitants, this poetry collection is alive with natural and human history. Making the local universal, more..

9. New and Selected Poems (Oxford Poets series)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Written By: Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Ranging across various forms and tones, this poetry compilation expounds upon the Australian landscape, and its natural objects and inhabitants. Combining humor and gravity, it ponders the destruction of our planet and the detrimental effects of progress. more..

10. Subhuman Redneck Poems
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Written By: Les Murray

Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English

Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and deeply observant Subhuman Redneck Poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of more..