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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SongboxKirk Wilson's SONGBOX, winner of the 2020 Trio Award, is the testament of a mature poet confronting the dissolution of American assumptions, the precarious nature of identity, and the alchemical strangeness of experience. In the words of the Swedish poet Malina Mörling, the "profound...
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Sweet InspirationsThrough an inspiring collection of poetry, the author shares comforting, inviting reflections on the love of God, the beauty of a relationship with Christ, and the little joys in life. From cherished memories to wise thoughts to ponder, Sweet Inspirations encourages readers to embrace...
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The Nursery Rhyme Book (Esprios Classics)Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of...
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Soul Waves"May these words bring peace to the waves within your soul." From the celebrated author of Shine from Within comes a brand new collection of short letters, affirmations, and poems to welcome peace into your heart. In Soul Waves, Nikki Banas offers a stunning...
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Slaughter the One BirdKimberly Ann Priest's debut full-length collection Slaughter the One Bird is a haunting and incisive meditation on the enduring effects of childhood sexual abuse. Reflecting on the impact of trauma on her memories and role as a mother, Priest intertwines past and present in...
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Force of NatureWhat is divine feminine energy, and how can we channel it? Force of Nature explores this question through the lens of an African woman grappling with childhood, womanhood, cultural identity, and the societal issues that disproportionately affect women.This poetry collection parallels African women to...
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AzulAzul... (1888) is a book of stories and poems by Rubén Darío. Written while the poet was living in Chile, Azul... has been recognized as a pioneering work of Hispanic Modernism that launched the career of a leading Latin American poet. Both experimental and...
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[Squelch Procedures]In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word squelch acts as a guide to Chernoff's unique voice, which uses language to swaddle intrusive thoughts...
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Sweet Tea and KetamineWith her words, Zeinab Fakih describes the dreamlike beauty in the ordinary.Sweet Tea and Ketamine is a sombre narrative of people and memories. Through poetry and prose, Zeinab Fakih invites readers to feel every moment, creating a dream world for the romantics and paints...
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Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930The poems in Balancing were inspired by the experiences of women who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the Upper Midwest. The first waves of pioneers, predominantly Yankees from Northeastern states, were soon followed by European immigrants. Few women...
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Hits and MissivesThis chapbook calls the reader to consider the ordinary as extraordinary. Her words capture the reader with poetic surprises which remind us of what we may "know" but miss as we travel through our daily lives.Author: Carol H. JewellPublisher: Clare Songbirds Publishing HousePublished: 05/10/2021Pages:...
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HitheHithe is the debut poetry collection of Jennifer Spector. An expatriate in Panama, her writing is the distillation of decades spent intimately attentive to her environment, to the lush verdancy of that narrow isthmus between the Atlantic and Pacific. These are poems that enfold...
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Pandemic Lent: A Season in PoemsWith brevity and sensitivity, these daily haiku carry us through an unfolding tragedy, all the more delicately for their economy of words, and all the more effectively for their precision of image and feeling. -Br. Paul Quenon, OCSO, author of Unquiet Vigil: New and...
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MultiversesIn her exploration of the multiverse theory, Alvarez deals with several griefs created by the loss of two pregnancies, a beloved granduncle, her infant son, and finally her father, in the span of just four years, by constructing multiple alternate realities in which one...
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Tomorrow Ruined TodayRyan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. However, contrary to typical next steps musician pals...
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Help in the Dark Season: PoemsThe poems in Help in the Dark Season expose lessons of adult and childhood trauma, relationship joys and failures, and the all-around hard work of true togetherness. Help in the Dark Season explores the pathway of human love as it begins in the dark,...
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Inferno"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson."I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food,...
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Black UnderWinner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel...
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Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month: an angry collection of poetryThis collection of poems, personal recollections, and biting observations burrow into the heart and grabs it with a vengeance, never letting go. The honesty and vulnerability of OBrien's personal experiences, melded with enigmatic light of poetic inspiration, makes this book a must read for...
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An OrangePoetry. It would be too easy to say love vanished from the earth... begins Ted Dodson's AN ORANGE, his thoughtful, experiential second collection of poems. It's a provocation to which AN ORANGE wholeheartedly responds. Dodson's work reroutes essay, narrative, and confessionalism, detouring from criticism...
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