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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Lines in OppositionLines in Opposition discovers truths without abstractions. Images and details endorse the hope that marriages might secure Love within families-fathers, mothers, children, friends. Maureen Sherbondy recreates a Past that disappears and reappears with every syllable like a dozer leveling walls inside a house we...
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Erectric SchlockIn Erectric Schlock Aimée Lê asks big questions, big questions like: do you really want to live in a world where a Subway sandwich costs $5.99? Tough luck. Invasive technology has made life a living hell and enriched a handful of reptiles. Tough luck....
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The Great ApesAn inimitable and eccentric suite of five long poems in the most aberrant tradition of epic poetry; this sequenced fable grinds human nature through its cousins and throws words like faeces at a confused tourist. Rabid and satirical, The Great Apes is a poetry...
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portraits of red and gray: memoir poemsIn this collection of memoir poems, James C. Morehead (Poet Laureate of Dublin, California) brings universal themes to life through journeys to the USSR and the mountains of Tuscany, the concert halls in San Francisco and a tiny town in Wyoming, the cables of...
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Earth Rejoicing"The poems comprising "Earth Rejoicing" are deftly crafted with a buoyant and vivid imagery that is truly memorable. Indeed, "Earth Rejoicing" features the kind of poetry that will linger in the mind and memory long after this little volume is finished and set back...
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Ragged DisclosuresRagged Disclosures is a prose poetry collection that explores the poetic sequence. It demonstrates how related or repeated tropes, images and themes may be developed and reinflected as sequences unfold and how, in such sequences, recurrent motifs resonate productively between different individual works. The...
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The Girl Who Quit at LeviticusThe poems of The Girl Who Quit at Leviticus are, like all forms of story, about sex and death: the life force and whatever is its negation or absence. They don't want to deny the regret, rage and dread of a life, but they...
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The Church of the Love of the WorldThings being so urgent, when youopen a book its leaves should take you back to the forest they came from ...('Vestige')So opens the first poem in Grace Wells' The Church of the Love of the World, a book that begs us to "only connect"...
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City Scattered: Cabaret for Four VoicesGoblets of gin, fans of feathers, war-bombed bricks, loaves of bread, soot, smoke, and paper money--such are the tangible things that touched the lives of women who worked as wage laborers during an era of Europe of cabaret and hyperinflation. The crises of modernity...
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Portrait Before DarkPortrait Before Dark is a poem cycle that constitutes an imaginary dialogue between the poet and patron of the arts, Edward James, and the eccentric Viennese ballerina and star of the 1920's, Tilly Losch.Liana Sakelliou began writing these poems in August 2009, when she...
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Sunset CueWinner of the 2021 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize. The poems collected in SUNSET CUE have a rare, mystical quality. Through her observant eye, love of science and nature, and poetic alchemy, Angie Macri transmutes her subjects-red-winged blackbirds, a garden at the end of fall, children...
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Making Silent Stones SingThe poems in Making Silent Stones Sing by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, capture a geoscientist's contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing landscape of her life and history. Individual poems explore universal themes: wonder, joy,...
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Aetia. Iambi. Lyric PoemsCallimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world...
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Fragmentary Republican LatinThe Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry. Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans as the founder of Latin literature, introducing tragedy and comedy, adapting...
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We Are the Ones PossessedAdrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of La Belle Ajar, brings you a horror death themed collection with mortality, murder, and muerte oozing from every one of these terrifying verses.Inspired by NightWorms, Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties & Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, get...
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Pee PoemsTranslated by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu. Chinese writer Lao Yang's PEE POEMS go deep and dark--with deceptive lightness--into the metaphysical and the social, offering insight and humor along the way. Written over the past decade, this iconoclastic collection is the first of Yang's...
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Ecstasy: A Poetry CollectionNever had the great fortune to have a taste of ecstasy! Here it is in the form of a book that you will cherish forever. Even if you have tasted ecstasy before, this book brings to you ecstasy like never before. So dive into...
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Incentive wish: Impetus loveA incentive wish and fulfillment of goals and dreams, socially and differentials behaviour to conquer every step a enjoyable one, further cherish beautiful way to make it impetus love for socially and individually available on time. shadows dances nights away all around, all time...
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Love with Lust and other poemsThese Poems were completely a blend of nature and love portrayed with my inspiration on metaphysical poetry. And here I came out with emotions what i enjoyed and admired in my life. I hope my words will make you feel relatable and relaxed and...
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Poems from the AsylumBiography and complete anthology of harrowing and insightful poems written in 1932 by Martha Hedwig Nasch, patient-inmate #20864 at the St. Peter State Hospital for the Insane.After noticing something strange from a secret medical procedure in 1927, St. Paul, Minnesota, Martha Nasch's doctor claimed...
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