Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems from across the world that invites us to celebrate poetry's power to capture the truths that really matter. 100 Poems That Matter examines universal themes of love, loss, and the experiences that define...

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."...

DAVID DUCHOVNY'S SEVENTH PUBLISHED--AND FIRST POETIC--WORK covers a range of intimate themes and topics, including love, the loss of love, parenting, Duchovny's own parents (in particular his father, who looms large throughout the work), alienation, and other emotional quandaries. Fans of Duchovny's fiction will...

DAVID DUCHOVNY'S DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY covers a range of intimate themes, in particular his relationship with his father, who looms large throughout the work. Here, Duchovny's typically clever wordplay distills to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what the author holds most dear. His...

As if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt. Demanding "if you really love a writer, bury her in...

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York...

Selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters."Violence is a failure of communication" opens this book as an omen and foregrounds a family...

A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom.The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren is at once a domestic autistic ethnography, a more-than-human erotic pastoral, and an illustrated choreography...

Hicok's newest collection interrogates love, purpose, belief, and desire with stunning candor and an ever-burning desire for understanding.Hicok's poetry has long been distinctive for its compassionate breadth of feeling, curiosity, and play. In Breathe, he meets the social and cultural moment, soothing distress with...

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.Author: Charles...

"One of the greatest American poets of her time."--New York TimesCollected Poems features Edna St. Vincent Millay's incisive and impassioned poetry and sonnets, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine the Harvest, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay. Alongside...

"Corazón Espinado" de María Iglesias es una obra extraordinaria que entrelaza poesía y prosa para narrar el amor perdido y el dolor que de ello emana. Con maestría y sensibilidad, la autora captura la intensidad de las emociones de una joven mientras procesa el...

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterThere is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes...

Formally inventive and conversational, the poems, prose poems, lyric essays, and "notebook entries" in Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? explore our bewildering, increasingly fragmented lives. Unpredictable and unfailingly curious, Donna Masini--in her most compelling, wide-ranging book yet--moves from elegy and intimate...

Segundo y poderoso poemario de esta autora best seller. Dividido en cinco movimientos (marchitarse; caer; enraizar; crecer; florecer), este poemario se desliza desde las profundidades de un desamor y el dolor que conlleva hasta la fuerza y la alegría que pueden florecer tras ese...

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature,...

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of a 2020 Whiting Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetrySelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers...

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also--as it has been for centuries--a work of loveWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize Winner of the Massachusetts Book AwardPeter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can...

With her pen and her camera lens, popular writer, poet, and YouTube artist Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story,...

A hymn to perversity, a lyric pledge to desire and risk, Glove Money pages through the canon to "seed its sugar in your dreams."In this joyful and irreverent exploration of the role of poet-as lover, Sophia Dahlin plays Sappho, O'Hara, romantics and troubadours, assembling...