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 Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated EpicIn The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue, fueled by inescapable surges of bravery. This odyssey is...
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Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in ProductionIn Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the...
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The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write: PoemsIn this moving, playful, and deeply philosophical volume, acclaimed poet Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Slipping effortlessly from personal trauma ("Song of What Happens") to public catastrophe ("Charlottesville Elegy"), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination...
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The Book of Not Entirely Useful AdviceFrom acclaimed writer A.F. Harrold comes a riotous poetry collection that encourages readers to think critically--perfect for fans of Shel Silverstein Packed with silly rhymes and witty wordplay, A.F. Harrold's poetry is positively bursting with fun--and advice. But it's not always the most useful....
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Black MattersHalifax's former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya -- a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert's photos into poetry, painting a profound...
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The National Parks: A Century of GracePoets Karla K. Morton and Alan Birkelbach began this journey to celebrate our national parks' one hundredth anniversary, but for these two poets the sojourns quickly became something greater than that. In their words, "As humans we have this tendency to look at a...
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Danger DaysThe poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely...
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La Divina Comedia: el infierno, el purgatorio y el paraísoConsiderada como la obra m s perfecta de la humanidad por Jorge L. Borges, La Divina Comedia ofrece al lector un viaje aleg rico y filos fico por el infierno, el purgatorio y el para so. Es considerada la obra maestra de la literatura...
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Keeping CountKeeping Count, M. Travis Lane's 18th collection of poetry, begins in the poet's favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. "But pull a thread: music turns," Lane writes, and the book progressively defamiliarizes the reader, moving from ecopoetry to a...
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Litany of Flights: PoemsWinner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments of incandescent transformation. These poems remind us to behold the extraordinary in the ordinary, and that the secret...
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Epigrams from the Greek AnthologyLush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up...
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Tethered to Stars: PoemsA Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of...
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UpendPoetry. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. California Interest. Longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. The book loosely navigates the archived immigration trial of Hong On, a biracial Alaska Native-Chinese man, in 1912 on Angel Island, CA, during the Chinese Exclusion...
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The Wisdom of Wild Grace: PoemsAt the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christian desert and Celtic traditions, but also feature later medieval saints like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Julian...
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Sincerely, A Broken Heart"Sincerely, a broken heart" was simply a therapist. A distraction from reality that allowed me to speak freely. It was the imaginary friend I was ashamed to have, yet it slowly blossomed into a written reflection of my deepest thoughts. Without any intention of...
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Atomic Theory 7: Poems to My Wife and GodAtomic Theory 7, a collaboration in the truest sense between the fiercely-imagined poems of Shann Ray and the sacramental art of Trinh Mai, considers a most uncommon union between the lover and the beloved: the body at rest and war, in beauty and peace,...
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Band Nerds: Poetry from the 13th Chair Trombone PlayerThe perfect gift for a current band members and band directors, and a hilarious look back for band alumni, Band Nerds: Poetry is a delightfully geeky instant classic to share with all the music lovers in your life!Music's among us, wherever you look, there's...
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Bone of Space: Poems by Zen Master Seung SahnZen Master Seung Sahn is the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. After becoming disenchanted with academics and then radical politics as ways to help people understand life, he turned to Buddhism. Given transmission at the age of 22...
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Flashlight: New and Selected PoemsGayl Teller's poetic eye works like a flashlight illuminating wider and wider swaths of reality and human interconnectedness.Author: Gayl TellerPublisher: Cherry Grove CollectionsPublished: 11/21/2019Pages: 236Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54dISBN: 9781625493316This title is not returnable
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Life StoryThis book tells Laura's story about the travels and experiences they had during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Her family was not wealthy. They were an ordinary family, ordinary folk whose desire was to farm, hunt game, and live a...
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