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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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Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don...
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The Dream of ReasonJenny George's debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya's grotesque bestiary, George's own...
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World's End"World's End, like much Neruda, contains bewildering multitudes. Some poems incite, others console, as the poet--maestro of his own response and impresario of ours--Looks inward and out.--Los Angeles Times"We are faced with the unavoidable task of critical communication within a world which is empty...
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Then Come Back: The Lost NerudaFeatured on NPR's All Things Considered.A literary event of universal importance.--The GuardianThe earliest poem in the collection dates to 1956, and several are love poems, a form Neruda was famous for.--The New York TimesThis new volume will be a labor of love for the...
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After the Point of No ReturnWagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts.--The Seattle TimesIn his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form,...
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Still Another Day"Neruda's lyricism wakes us up, even in the face of death, to the connections we have with our land, inner and outer."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe first authorized English translation of A n, considered among Neruda's finest long poems.More aware than ever of his...
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The Separate Rose"This is pure Neruda at his prime, which is to say incomparable."--Choice"The Separate Rose represents Pablo Neruda at the peak of his art, and William O'Daly has done an important service by bringing it before American readers with such care."--The Bloomsbury ReviewThe coast of...
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99 Poems: New & SelectedNow in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana GioiaSo much of what we live goes on inside--The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are no less realFor having passed unsaid. What we concealIs always more than what...
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Eunoia: The Upgraded EditionWinner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram. The word 'eunoia, ' which literally means 'beautiful thinking, ' is the shortest word in English that contains...
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The Book of KellsBarbara Crooker's eighth book of poetry, The Book of Kells, focuses on the illuminated medieval manuscript with a series of meditations on its various aspects, from the ink and pigments used by the scribes and illustrators to the various plants, animals, and figures depicted...
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ReflectionIn this inspiring collection of original poetry, NFL wide receiver Tyler Lockett deftly weaves words, thoughts, and images as smoothly as he makes remarkable plays on the field. Fueled by faith and powered by a strong work ethic, Tyler Lockett's debut book of poetry...
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L'ILIADE et L'ODYSSEE: Edition integrale - Traduction FrancaisePlongez dans plus de 600 pages de r cits h ro ques que vous n'oublierez jamais L'Iliade et l'Odyss e sont des chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt rature Grecque, attribu s au po te Grec Hom re, fondateur de la culture Grecque et pionnier de...
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Flare Stacks in Full Bloom: PoemsFlare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. This region, sometimes called "Cancer Alley," is home to the nation's largest oil refinery. It has also been on the front lines of climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey,...
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The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia: Volume 9Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia's artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This...
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I Wrote This for You: 2007-2017I need you to understand something... Ten years ago, I started writing this for you. I wrote it for you and only you. Since then, millions of other people have read it, but none have understood it the way you understand it. I set...
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I Wrote This for You: Just the WordsThe follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for You I Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never before seen...
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Lesya UkrainkaThe Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature, she sought difficult and complex motifs...
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Waves of LifeLeena's visceral collection of poems takes the reader on a raw and moving journey through the darkest depths of the human psyche. Both brutally unforgiving and beautifully compassionate, Leena's book reveals the profound beauty and gifts that life's struggles have to offer. Divided into...
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Beginning in SightBeginning in Sight is Theodore Ell's first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and recouple bygone experience to the drifting world of today. The poems branch out from...
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The Tighty Whitey Spider: And More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made UpAnother side-splitting collection of poetry from beloved children's poet Kenn Nesbitt!Following up the bestselling collection, My Hippo Has the Hiccups, Kenn Nesbitt dares to go where no poet has gone before, creating a whole host of laugh-out-loud scenarios involving animals doing extreme sports.Kids love...
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