Charles Bukowski Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and...

William Shakespeare   All 37 Plays. All the 160 Sonnets and Poems. Over 450 Illustrations. 1024 Pages.William Shakespeare1564-1616PLAYSAll's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletHenry IV,...

Richard Wagner A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy,...

Virginia Euwer Wolff The Barnes & Noble ReviewWritten in poignant and powerful blank verse, this National Book Award winner from Virginia Euwer Wolffe revisits the characters Wolffe first introduced in Make...

Courtney Peppernell Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections...

Maxine Kumin Gathered from nine collections representing three decades of work, these poems―newly available here in a rich and varied volume―celebrate the growth of a major artist. Since the publication...

Dorothy Parker The Penguin Dorothy Parker contains stories and poems published collectively in 1944; late uncollected stories, articles and reviews; and the contents of Constant Reader (her New Yorker book reviews) - in...

John Gross "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In...

Robert Browning With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook.Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and...

Edited by Neil Astley Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world...

William Blake William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs...

Ezra Jacobs The poems in Closure are about prayer, life, purpose; about rain and birth and creativity; about Arab hatred and mining in South Africa; about Jewish holidays, a shul...