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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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Selected Poems 1983-2020This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation.Selected Poems 1983-2020 is Steven Heighton's seventh volume of poetry and the first since...
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Pricks in the TapestryPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This book is a record of my thinking and feeling during my mid-to-late-twenties. Like any record, it is incomplete and imperfect--I do not always identify with the speakers of these poems, even as I recognize their speech (and sometimes, their desires)...
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Millay: Poems: Edited by Diana Secker TesdellOne of America's most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the...
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Was Body: PoemsReading Was Body provided a jolt I didn't realize I needed. Using tropes of iteration and erasure, medical mythologies, nude portraiture, phantasmagoria, and "theme and variation" on phrases ranging from "cellar door" to "lighter fluid," Billie R. Tadros bewitches us with language's associative properties....
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Now It's DarkA new collection of poems from one of America's most vital and imaginative poetsThe poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has...
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Un-AmericanPoems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?2021 PEN Open Book Finalist 2021 NAACP Image Award Finalist, Poetry2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, LonglistDancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes--linguistic, cultural,...
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One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin IsshuThe Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology, called karuta. Collecting one...
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October Mourning: A Song for Matthew ShepardA masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a...
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Sunflower Soul"Sunflower Soul" is a collection of 200 poems divided into five chapters discussing themes of growth, pain, love and so much more. Written as an evolution from seed to full bloom, this series of prose takes readers on a journey from facing defeat to...
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Bury Me in ThunderBury Me in Thunder, the full-length debut by syan jay, is an eviscerating collection, suffused with nature, ceremony, and pain. Here, a mother gives birth in a field of flowers, a child emerges from the stomach of a whale, while the speaker keeps working...
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Ghost DogsGhost Dogs, Dion O'Reilly's fine first poetry collection, will haunt you the way art should. Bristling with pain, wit, desire, and tenderness, these poems investigate not only "the daily harms" of an abusive childhood, but the deep solace non-human animals can offer. In vivid,...
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RidgeLines: A View of Nature and Human NatureRidgeLines is an exploration of nature and human nature. It is celebration, wonderment, reflection, and deep inquiry. The stories, though in the author's unique voice and arising of a particular place, readily become our own, traveling time and distance. This book is an opportunity...
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Dinosaurs Galore!Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz have combined their talents once again to create this funny, rhythmic and fact-filled picture book about the lives of the great dinosaurs. From sun-up to sundown, meet the creatures that swam, roamed and flew over prehistoric earth. This title...
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Field Notes for the SelfField Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt's tintinnabulations--overlapping structures...
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From Unincorporated Territory [Hacha]from unincorporated territory hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Gu han (Guam). Perez weaves avant-garde, eco-poetic, indigenous, documentary, multilingual, and abstract expressionist modes to tell the complex story...
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AlmaUn recueil de po sie peut-il se lire comme un roman ? Certainement. L'h ro ne de ce recueil nous fait d couvrir une vaste galerie de personnages qui gravitent autour d'elle, commencer par Pierrot, son homme. Les effets de la Crise conomique de...
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I Am More Than My NightmaresI Am More Than My Nightmares is my journey from being engulfed in fear to learning how to let my mind free when it is calling for a break. I have learned over the past few years how to better handle the worry and...
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Chat 'Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican ConversationsChat 'Bout : An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations Jamaicans love to 'tek bad tings mek laugh' and Chat 'Bout lets you get in on the conversation. Written in Patwa or Patois, Chat 'Bout celebrates all things mundanely Jamaican. Unfiltered, honest and funny, it examines...
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Dancing on Stars: Poems for the Hearts of Parents and ChildrenDancing on Stars is a mothers poignant and humorous weaving of poems based on pictures of her children or real-life events remembered fondly. The poems invite you in and ask that you remember the magic of the world through the eyes and heart of...
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How to Hang the MoonHuascar Medina is currently the Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2021), a playwright and also serves as the Lit Editor for seveneightfive magazine located in Topeka, KS. He's a member of Topeka's Speak Easy Poetry Group, the Red Tail Collective in Lawrence and the Latino...
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