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Recent Poetry
Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Philip Larkin to John Ashbery, Thom Gunn, and Les Murray. Here are a few recent collections we think you'll enjoy. You can find more at www.fsgpoetry.com
Selected Poems by Robert Pinsky (Excerpts)
“Simply said, Robert Pinsky is one of the few literary artists working in our language whose work is unquestionably major work.” —Louise Glück Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; ...
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Human Chain: Poems by Seamus Heaney (Excerpt)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Seamus Heaney’s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently...
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Maggot: Poems by Paul Muldoon (Excerpt)
Of Plan B, an interim volume that included several of the poems in Maggot, Robert McCrum recently said in the London Observer that “Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poe...
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Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (Excerpt)
“Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. Bishop accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien...
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Taller When Prone: Poems by Les Murray (Excerpt)
“The best writer of poetry in English.” —Fraser Sutherland, The Globe and Mail Taller When Prone is Les Murray’s first volume of new poems since The Biplane Houses, published five years ...
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Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman (Excerpt)
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne ...
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The Poetry of Rilke, Translated and Edited by Edward Snow; Introduction by Ad...
“Edward Snow is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them.” ...
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Canti: Poems by Giacomo Leopardi; Translated from the Italian and Annotated b...
“Over the past half-century American readers have embraced the translated poetry of Rilke, Cavafy, Neruda and Akhmatova. Thanks to Jonathan Galassi’s edition of the “Canti,” it’s Leopardi...
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