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 IliadDue to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may, in fact, be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral...
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Real Love Still Exists: A Poetry Experience that Rejuvenates Love and RelationshipsIn a world that has become accustomed to disheartening deeds and distorted expressions of love, it is imperative to revisit the foundation of pure, meaningful, and divine love.This book of poetry enters into realms of affectionate love within spiritual and marital relationships. Additionally, these...
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Dead Dog Poems: Winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Prize in PoetryDead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the emergency vet and hearing that your beloved...
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Chapter & VerseDick Martin's lawless imagination consumes language at an alarming rate, seemingly heedless of conserving a literary future, and leaving in its wake reality-induced characters like drugs for addicts. ("Come on, let's get unreal.") Chapter & Verse is addicting, like good reading. The crowd of...
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On Seamus HeaneyA vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national...
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Being the BirdThis collection includes a large number of previously unpublished poems, as well as poems published on my website and my two previous collections, In The Water Was The Fire and Souvenirs of Spirit. It also reprints a number of prayers and blessings related to...
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Calling from the Scaffold: PoemsCalling from the Scaffold is a collection of poems about connecting and not connecting--of approaching the brink of connecting. It's about paying tribute and salvaging and gratitude. The voices vary in their longings: we hear from men and women, the young and no longer...
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The Girl Who Wrote Her Own Fairytale"Why do we read stories!" yawned the I-am-not-sleepy little girl. Her grandmother asked back, "Why do you think? The characters? The worlds they create? Maybe as a way to escape?" "Yes," she replied through eyes full of sand. "Yes, all of that. And ..,"...
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Ramble Young Girl RambleRamble Young Girl Ramble is a poetic dance of grace and fight to be heard. This 138-page turner of poetry and prose will make you look within with every read. RYGR requires much of its readers. It understands "inner freedoms become outer realities" and...
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Beyond the Edge of Suffering: Prose PoemsProse poems and flash fictions revealing the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of living through Covid, political chaos, and personal upheaval. Peter Conners' unique blend of prose poetry, flashfiction, and other spare poetic forms pays witness to the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of surviving a...
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The Four JourneysO human you are struggling towards your Lord and striving until you come to know Him. Quran 84:6"The notion of the complete human being or the 'Insan al-kamil' was addressed by early Islamic scholars and masters following the model of the Prophet and his...
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Slug: And Other Things I've Been Told to HateAuthor: Hollie McNishPublisher: FleetPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 496Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.70dISBN: 9780349726359About the AuthorHollie McNish is an award-winning poet based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for Nobody Told Me and has published three other collections -...
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Focal PointWinner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award, Focal Point is a scientist's unofficial dissertation, a daughter's faithful correspondence, and a coming-of-age story. Written largely while Jenny Qi was a young Ph.D. student conducting cancer research after her beloved mother's death from cancer,...
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The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three CantosIn Kandé's epic poem, African history collides with the contemporary reality of migrationSylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar,...
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Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected PoemsDavid Lee is a major figure in American letters: the author of fifteen books of poetry, a celebrated teacher, a legendary reader in classrooms, bookstores, and taverns; and the first poet laureate of Utah. His work is full of the most various qualities: soul-crushing...
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Into the Good World Again: PoemsIn these unsettling pandemic times, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland offers poems of grace, resilience, and healing remembrance.These are poems of remembering, not only the anguish and isolation of the global pandemic, during which most were written, but also remembering as a creative...
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ClearingWinner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness, "asserting feminist viewpoints and mortal terror in lush musical lines" (New York Times). The women in Allison Adair's debut...
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Worldview Guide for The Aeneid"[O]ur ancestors found in the Aeneid a purpose, a pathos, and a profundity that moved them. It was Virgil-not in opposition to but alongside the Bible-who taught Christian Europe the shape of history, the cost of empire, the primacy of duty, the transience of...
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Haiku (Volume IV): Autumn / WinterReginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964) was a prime mover in the popularization of haiku and Zen philosophy in western culture. Born in England, Blyth spent most of his working life in Japan, where he acted as a professor of English and foreign liaison, and became...
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Wolf Lamb BombAviya Kushner's debut poetry collection, Wolf Lamb Bomb, revives and reimagines the Book of Isaiah in an intimate conversation between woman and prophet. In the aftermath of September 11th, ongoing violence in the Middle East, and resurgent antisemitism, Kushner reflects on a Biblical understanding...
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