Poetry
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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Beowulf: An Imitative TranslationThe name Beowulf lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible...
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The Atom To Be Split: New and Selected Essays on Robinson JeffersThe Atom To Be Split collects new and selected essays by Robert Zaller on the work and career of Robinson Jeffers, whose prophetic verse, more than fifty years after his death, speaks increasingly to students of literature, history, science, and theology, as well as...
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The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano"Seldom have careful scholarship and book design combined to make a work as attractive as David Quint's new translation of Poliziano's Stanze per la giostra." . . . Quint's facing translation is excellent, conveying the tone and content of the poetry in prose paragraphs...
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Of Form & GatherOf Form & Gather marks the dazzling debut of Felicia Zamora, whose poems concern themselves with probing questions, not facile answers. Where does the self reside? What forms do we, as human beings, inhabit as we experience the world around us? Echoing the collection's...
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Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante CommentaryIn Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history...
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Pity the Drowned HorsesPity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are...
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Kingly CrownSolomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown). Hailed by scholars as one of the most important classics of Hebrew literature, The Kingly Crown employs...
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Young RainWith Young Rain Kevin Hart continues his 'ransmemberment of song' into a realm all his own. . . ." --Harold Bloom"Kevin Hart is one of the finest poets writing in English today. I admire his erudition and his imagination, the way history, art, myth,...
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Times BeachWinner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from...
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Wild Track: New and Selected PoemsThe poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart's poetry both in the...
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Poetry & Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern IrelandMichael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland, Richard...
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Contemporary Russian Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology"The book is a credit to the press, a boon to everyone interested in Russian culture, and an important resource for teachers and students of Russian literature." --Library Journal" . . . a solid and conscientious piece of work, informed by discerning taste and...
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The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb RileyFew lives have left so vivid an impression upon a native environment as that of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet. His folksy, down-home rhymes are still enormously popular in his native state and beyond. This publication brings back into print the complete Riley...
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Girl with Death MaskLove, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in...
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Complete PoemsAlthough best known for his tales, Edgar Allan Poe himself thirsted for fame primarily as a poet. This volume, assembled by the eminent Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, is the single most authoritative edition of Poe's poems ever published: 101 poems and their variants,...
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Ti lascio andareA volte mi piacerebbe scrivere, o dirti semplicemente quel che sto pensando, anche se banale. Descrivere l'emozione, quella che dà quel leggero brivido alla schiena e farlo nel momento stesso in cui la sento. Nel momento stesso, in cui chiudo gli occhi e la...
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The WandererThe Wanderer was first published in 1932. Much of Gibran's writings deal with Christianity, especially on the topic of spiritual love. But his mysticism is a convergence of several different influences: Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Hinduism and theosophy. His most famous work is The Prophet.Author:...
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Vengo dalla schiuma del MareTutto quello che avete sempre cercato, nella vostra mente, nel buio di un paesaggio, nello sguardo di chi fissa il soffitto senza sapere realmente perchè, nei vostri occhi stanchi e nei vostri sorrisi spenti è qui .Author: Riccardo LivigniPublisher: Lulu.comPublished: 05/27/2017Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Fammi pianuraIn Fammi pianura la poesia illumina l?esistenza, la realt? presente, traccia sentieri che riaccendono scintille, scaglie di luce che risvegliano il vivere quotidiano con un respiro cosmico, immateriale, che valica i confini del mondo. Una poesia di mistica nostalgia, di orizzonti altri dove ogni...
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How to Read a Japanese PoemHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from...
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