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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Mondegreen: Songs about Death and LoveA mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to...
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Condiments & Entrails"Moo! Moo! Marvel at John Durak's brilliant poetry! It rages off the page!" --Nick Cave, musician and author of The Death of Bunny Munro "Durak's poetry is extraordinary. Hard, sensual, clear, funny, and dazzling in its clarity and directness. His verse is shapes, elegant,...
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Motion for Justice: I Rest My CaseRich in information, Motion for Justice: -- I Rest My Case shares Brian Vukadinovich's experiences and intimate knowledge of governmental and judicial corruption and what went on behind the scenes in Indiana for years in efforts to take away his freedom and livelihood as...
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Mortal ManThis is an exciting collection from the experience of an African American writer whose voice should be read and heard whether black or white. The lyrical content in his work flow from poems relating to matters of the heart to poems of the struggle...
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Anthology of Short Stories and Poems IIThis new book continues the adventures of Private Detective Jack Donavon of the "If Could Hear What I See" series as he continues to search for the person who caused his hearing loss. This leads Jack back to Florida where he meets his attacker...
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A Half-LifeA poetry collection centered on the Korean American experience. The term "half-life" is used to describe radioactive decay, pharmaceutical drugs, rocks, the atoms of our human bodies, and even technological products. Using this idea as a starting point, A Half-Life provides a rare glimpse...
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de Book of JosephDE BOOK OF JOSEPH, the third book in Mordecai's epic trilogy about the lives of Jesus, his mother, Mary and his foster father, the tekton of Nazareth, is a dazzling retelling in Jamaican Creole of the story of Joseph's early life, his marriage to...
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Almost Home: Selected PoemsAuthor: Aaron J. CancePublisher: Hothouse BooksPublished: 08/24/2021Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.24dISBN: 9781737456001About the AuthorCance, Aaron J.: - $12.95 POETRY
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The Store-House of Wonder and AstonishmentFollowing natural history writings from Aristotle to Darwin, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment celebrates the combination of discovery and error passed along for nearly two thousand years. Into this mix comes the repressive influence of the Church on scientific thinking, followed by European...
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The Valley of Vision"When you are very old, with snowy hair, Sitting beside the fire at candle-light, You will remember all my rhymes aright..."The Valley of Vision, by Blanche Mary Kelly, is a collection of poetry rich in tradition. With evocative and emotional subject matter Kelly's words...
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Ezra Pound's JapanThe first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound's interest in 'hokku' and Fenollosa's...
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Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its BeakCardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak takes readers on a journey through poetic portraits, exploring the lives of passionate social justice advocates and historical migrants such as Ota Benga, Sarah Baartman, Isidro Marcelino Orbés, César Vallejo, and Gertrude Stein, among...
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Monogamy: Its Songs and PoemsMonogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes...
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Terra Incognita: PoemsThese masterful elegies follow the contours of a troubled mother-daughter relationship, explore the paradoxes of mourning, and relish the complicated joys of perseverance to map not only how one makes sense of the world but also how one reenters it after experiencing a transformative...
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Red SledDad + lad + red sled = magic! In this warm story, a boy and his father venture outside for a winter night of sledding. Climbing aboard their red sled, they zoom down the hill under a starlit sky before--with spirits lifted high--returning home...
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Contour FeathersAuthor: Ken HadaPublisher: Turning Plow PressPublished: 10/08/2021Pages: 162Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9781735576244About the AuthorHada, Ken: - Much of Ken Hada's poetry is formed on his back deck in rural Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. His work has been awarded by The...
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Poetry Through The Eyes of a Black WomanThese collections of poems tell a beautiful story of what it means to be a Black woman in America. Each poem in the collection is loaded with timeless wisdom for generations to come. The reader will gleam from the wisdom of an elder, while...
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Rumi: A New CollectionLove, devotion, suffering, and longing mysteriously co-exist in the poems of Jalal-ud-din Rumi. Composed almost eight centuries ago, the deep spirituality and buoyant wisdom of the poems are a source of inspiration to millions today. Farrukh Dhondy's translations not only offer a modern idiom...
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Shadows Uplifted Volume III: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American PoetryA landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these...
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He Spoke of Love: Selected Poems from the SatsaiThe seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows. The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with archetypal hero and...
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