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Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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All Things Bright and BeautifulRich and lively illustrations bring to life a classic song for today's kids and families "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful--the Lord God made them all." In this stunning book, birds soar, bugs burrow, elephants...
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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected PoemsThe largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from "the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of" (Los Angeles Times)―now thoroughly revised and updated Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography...
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A Body More TolerableFerocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of viewa body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts,...
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Wild/Hurt: PoemsWild/Hurt by Meg Ford takes the abstract 'journey' of trauma recovery and makes it concrete with interactive poetics. The reader can follow multiple paths that mirror the choices, experiences, and struggles one makes when reclaiming themselves in the face of sexual abuse. While being...
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Where Hope Comes from: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light**The Sunday Times Bestseller** Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet, including more than twenty poems exclusive to the US edition. I took my worries out and laid them carefully on the kitchen table. Then...
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Tree Fall with BirdsongTree Fall with Birdsong explores the natural world around the poet's home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled. These poems look to the natural life cycle as...
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook SeriesTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build--meticulously and with principled care--a vision of...
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The Waste Land and Other PoemsA Penguin Classic While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery...
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The Red Wheelbarrow & Other PoemsGathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader--The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.Author: William Carlos WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 05/29/2018Pages:...
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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, a"[The editors'] collaboration resulted in a book with a remarkable group of poets across the ages, from Emily Dickinson to Charles Bukowski, from Catullus to Bob Dylan. . . . These are poems focusing on concerns of the heart--fathers and sons, love and hurt,...
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The ParadisoIn The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity,...
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The Night Before ChristmasThis bestselling beautifully illustrated edition of the classic Christmas poem about Santa Claus, sugarplums, and reindeer makes the perfect holiday gift for families. Clement C. Moore's timeless Christmas Eve poem comes to life in this New York Times bestselling illustrated edition of The Night...
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The Making of a PoemTwo of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form" a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would...
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The MahabharataA new selection from the national epic of India Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a conflict...
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The Lays of BeleriandTales told through the ages of quests and curses, enduring love and immeasurable tragedy "The power of Tolkien's central characters--tragic, cursed Túrin; the lovers Beren and Lúthien--shines through."--Library Journal Gathering together two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world--those of Túrin, a hero...
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The Key to Everything: May Swenson, a Writer's LifeAn intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet May Swenson (1913-1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and...
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The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: Being Dreamity, Algoriddims, Chants & RiffsZooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, which continues Marcia Douglas' "speculative ancestral project" (The Whiting Foundation) begun with The Marvellous...
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The Invisible Sun: A Guide for the Soul from Rumi's MasterThe first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics--Attar--the twelfth-century poet Rumi called his master.Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (1145-1221) was revered by Rumi and though his work is beloved around the world, he is mostly unknown to English readers. Translated...
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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody--language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."--Boston Evening...
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a...
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