Black Wolf Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson towers at the forefront of American philosophy. His aphorisms ring like poetry and shine the light of truth on troubled times. Organized in a wide array of themes which touch every part of life, his insights remain as relevant today as when he first polished them 150 years ago.
The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman stands at the forefront of American poetry. His long lines roll like the surf of the sea. His organic philosophy fits perfectly with his egalitarian spirit. Gathered together here are the finest passages of his great work, organized in a new and novel order.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged,
Missing me one place, search another,
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
--Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson's letters were poetic gems. Gathered together in this collection, the most poetic passages from her correspondence have been sculpted to stand alone. Strikingly clear, graceful, and musical, they show her skill as a writer and thinker. If her better known verse formed her "letter to the world," the passages here may be the most essential of them all.
Morning without you
is a dwindled dawn.
--Emily Dickinson
No American poet ever perfected the art of love verse more than Kenneth Rexroth. Shunned by the literary establishment, his precise imagery, his direct expression of passion, and his fusion of epigrams from antiquity with Asian poetry was revolutionary. In an indelible poetic biography, contrasting his idyllic verse with the shambles of his life, his poems in this collection have been organized by his loves, affairs, and failed marriages, all annotated for a detailed literary and historical context.
You wake me,
Part my thighs, and kiss me.
I give you the dew
Of the first morning of the world.
from Marichiko IX
