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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The PastElegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigrationThe poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to disrupt this Westernized desire. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987,...
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Flower Grand FirstGustavo Hernandez's debut poetry collection, Flower Grand First, moves through the complex roads of immigration, sexuality, and loss. These poems are points plotted on maps both physical and emotional-the rural landscapes of Jalisco, the glimmering plains of memory, the busy cities of California, and...
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The Sacraments of Desire: Poems"The blinding intensity of Ms. Gregg's lines stains the reader's psyche the way lightning or heartache do."-Joseph Brodsky "Love, death and longing are archetypal presences in Gregg's intense, sundrenched lyrics, which have been compared to archaic Greek poetry."-Publishers Weekly "Beautifully crafted poems, vulnerably sensitive,...
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C+nto: & Othered PoemsWINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021WINNER OF THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2022The female body is a political space.C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim...
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence DunbarThe Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a comprehensive selection of the iconic writer's beloved poetry that features his unique rhythm and famous dialect. His work is a beautiful and critical examination of the human spirit. Paul Laurence Dunbar produced an impressive volume...
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Alien MissIn her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic,...
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Spot Weather ForecastFrom the unique perspective of a U.S. Forest Service elite, a Type 1 Interagency "Hotshot" Crew (the "SEAL Team Six of the firefighting world"), poems weave together memory, urgency, and the passage of time. Features segments from actual incident reports, forcing readers to witness...
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DiamondsDiamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life--and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love. Witty resilience abounds...
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Against Silence: PoemsAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and "one of the undisputed master poets of our time" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR) Words, voices reek of the worlds from which theyemerge: different worlds, each with its...
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EecchhooeessAn exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard's long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetryAmerican poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard's writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical...
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My Husband Would: PoemsSet at the crossroads of middle age, Benjamin S. Grossberg's fourth full-length collection of poems, My Husband Would, investigates love and family-both the families we are born into and those we create for ourselves. Funny, cinematic, and inventive, his poems recount family lore-a mother's...
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Poems of Earth and Spirit: 70 Poems and 40 Practices to Deepen Your Connection With Nature2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist This book of poetry and practices shows how we can connect with the deep peace, simple joy, and healing power of nature anytime, anywhere. Through intimate original poems, we experience loving encounters with trees, the gratitude of...
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Gladiola GardenGladiola Garden is a beautiful collection of poems written by Effie Lee Newsome. One of the first African American poets who wrote primarily for children, she used her poems to help young readers celebrate their own beauty and recognize themselves in fairy tales, folklore,...
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Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny PhantomDear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Exploring the interplay of adolescence and media, Dear Azula is a masterclass on how Generation Z see themselves reflected on screen, how they find themselves in...
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.3: The Songs and Sonets: Part 3: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and GlossesThis tenth, and final, volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of 32 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared,...
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Ghost LettersEach of these brilliant epistolary poems is a surrealist landscape-blurred beginnings, sorrowful endings, archetypes tangled in the roots of trees-where everything is held together by a speaker who is reading letters culled from a just-opened time capsule. Each poem captures the complexity of the...
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Poetry Rebellion: Poems and Prose to Rewild the SpiritWarning: this anthology contains poems to enter the. bloodstream and rewild the spirit.As with all life on Earth, the climate emergency, species extinction, ecological disaster, global pandemics, economic collapse, war, genocide and social injustice are all interconnected -- how do we face our fears?...
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Hong Kong Without Us: A People's PoetryHong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials--and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated...
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Mihai Eminescu -The Legend of the Evening Star & Selected Poems: Translations by Adrian G. SahleanPoems and prose by Romanian 'national poet' Mihai Eminescu (1850 -1889), considered Europe's last great Romantic poet and celebrated by UNESCO as Year-2000-Poet-of-the-Year. Translator Adrian G. Sahlean is viewed as the poet's premier voice in English, and his rendition of Eminescu's masterpiece "Legenda Luceafarului"...
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All the Beauty Still Left: A Poet's Painted Book of HoursThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.--Anne Frank The illuminated medieval manuscripts known as Books of Hours have been used to guide contemplation and prayer for centuries, with their intricate designs and exquisite coloring. Devotional poet, priest, and National...
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