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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I Love Our Earth / Amo Nuestra TierraCelebrate our beautiful home in this joyous, poetic bilingual tribute to the Earth's colors, climates, and seasons. Panoramic photographs capture the majesty of nature from swirling deserts to curling ocean waves. Close-ups reveal quieter treasures like springy moss and sunlit leaves. Tying all these...
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Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and PoemsAward-winning author Grace Lin joins science writer Ranida T. McKneally to get kids talking about the science of food, the five food groups, and what a healthy meal looks like. Answering questions like why are so many vegetables green?, What's the difference between brown...
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HolocaustIn Holocaust poet Charles Reznikoff's subject is people's suffering at the hand of another. His source materials are the U.S. government's record of the trials of the Nazi criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the transcripts of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Except...
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Bone Palace BalletThis is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate...
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Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: PoemsAn exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates...
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Virgin: PoemsSelected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes...
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ThresholesThresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family's past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What...
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The Mountain in the SeaRenowned for his pioneering mixture of both Spanish and English in poetry and prose, Victor Hern ndez Cruz has now incorporated Arabic language and North African culture into his unique poetic idiom. As Cruz builds poetic bridges between Arab-influenced Spain, Spanish-influenced North Africa, African--influenced...
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Coal Mountain ElementaryA singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color...
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Some Thing BlackWritten in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who...
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Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded SessionsA fascinating close-up of Mr. Strasberg's philosophy of theatre and method of working with actors.--Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times Unavailable for over fifteen years, these transcripts of Strasberg's private acting classes provide a revealing look at one of the nation's most famous acting...
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Muddy MatterhornHeather McHugh's first book in a decade, Muddy Matterhorn, reclaims the mix of high and low that is her sensibility's signature, in matters practical and philosophical, semantic and stylistic, mortal and transitory, amorous and political, hilarious and heartbreaking. With fierce attacks on technology and...
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RailsplitterRailsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln's persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President's...
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Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems"This is Neruda at his finest, his eloquence and passion skillfully arranged in an accessible yet profound package." --Publishers Weekly"This brief visit with Neruda ends all too soon, yet reminds one why his work still matters." --Washington Post"They are vintage Pablo Neruda, literally and...
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Imaginary VesselsCompelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world. --The Boston GlobeRekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being. --Rain TaxiIn acknowledging the disappointing...
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One Man's DarkMaurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim. --New York Times Book ReviewManning's genius--his truly staggering genius--is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly,...
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Shirt in HeavenJean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings.--The New York Times Book ReviewQuietly marked by...
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Compass Rose2015 Pulitzer Prize finalistCompass Rose is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world.--Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism--and observes their correspondences with...
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AlightWith anatomical precision, Joudah illustrates scenes that are at once uncanny and contemporary, be it a Bedouin woman's lavender mourning veil, the chrome doors to an alchemist's home, or the mysterious speaker in 'Smoke, ' who exits abruptly and claims to have 'scripts to...
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Book of TwilightThe greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.--Gabriel Garcia MarquezHis enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He had to do it, in order to name a world. Our...
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