Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month celebrates poetry and its vital place in American culture.
Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
ISBN: 9780061125614
$13.95 Paperback
Ecco Pub Date: June
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the legendary writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is his dazzling new collection of poetry--20 years in the making. Following his highly acclaimed 1984 publication, Book of Mercy, and containing his own playful and provocative line drawings, this collection brings together the elements that have elevated Cohen's artistry to worldwide recognition.
Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen's first published book contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but also poetry that resonates loudly with relevance today.
Acolytes: Poems by Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9780061231315
$16.95 Hardcover
William Morrow & Company
Now the remarkable artist Nikki Giovanni has penned a collection of 80 all-new poems and prose pieces that retain her distinct vision and voice yet mark a change of direction inspired by love, celebration, memories, and even nostalgia. In intimate and spare language, Giovanni offers insight into the powerful elements and forces in her life: family and friends, deaths, nature, libraries, and theater.
Charles Bukowski, one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose--and many would claim America's most influential and imitated poet, delivers his fifth and final collection of poems.
