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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As We Were Saying: Sewanee Writers on WritingEvery summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during...
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Moldovan Hotel2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Shortlist Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish...
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No Hierarchy of the Lovely: Ten Uncollected Essays and Other Prose 1939-1981Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essays. NO HIERARCHY OF THE LOVELY celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Robert Duncan, a key figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain school of poetry, by recognizing his accomplishments as a prose writer....
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The Definition of Empty: PoemsThe Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies. Told from the point of view of a public servant trying his best to...
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Lost LanguageIn Lost Language, written during the months after a husband's sudden death, Faith Shearin explores the loss of the private language spoken in marriage. She also considers an ancient dancing plague, moon trees, rat kings, and animals in space; she remembers a biology classroom,...
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The Old Racist CatThis grumpy cat has a bone to pick with everyone. From Frogs to Limies, from Gypsies to Jews, and from Hipsters to Hispanics. Once he hates one of them, he hates all of them. Follow Hutch as he misjudges and holds grudges, lovingly narrated...
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The Best Poems of Alexander Pushkin, Lost in Translation?Alexander Pushkin, the greatest name in Russian literature, a voice that must reach English speakers again and again Could there be a nobler and more difficult task than translate Pushkin? This book offers 50 famous poems in Russian and English side by side for...
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America's Favorite Poem"If Frank O'Hara, Shakespeare and André Breton were alive today in Brooklyn, they might be Jason Koo. Jason Koo is alive today and he writes and I listen. I listen because he tells me something very important about what it means to be an...
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Pixel FleshPoetry. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington. In PIXEL FLESH, superbly translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Agust n Fern ndez Mallo posits and then destabilizes hypotheses, unifying apparent opposites by revealing them as the poles of a single surface. With inexhaustible curiosity, bracing inversions of...
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Girl as Birch: PoemsIn Girl as Birch, Gibson mimics the flexible (adaptable? too pliant? healthily, if secretly, resilient, then, finally, aligned) motion of a birch in strong wind, as it relates to the options seemingly available to her, growing up as a girl. The poems imitate in...
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Light Sleeper: PoemsLight Sleeper is a new collection of poems from Coleman Stevenson, author of Breakfast, The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609, The Dark Exact Tarot Guide, and a book of essays accompanying the card game Metaphysik."Existing somewhere between a grimoire and a naturalist's most intimate...
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Country of Warm SnowIn Country of Warm Snow, the author seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once. It is the life of an immigrant who has been in the US for fifty-odd years, whose heart, when he's in one place,...
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Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis WheatleyPhillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is...
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The Sea Needs No Ornament / El Mar No Necesita Ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women PoetsThirty-three poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean offer poems in a variety of forms and styles--from free verse, formal, experimental, and exuberant to minimalist-- employing a range of language registers, including borrowings from children's ring games to blues rhythms. They speak in equally...
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This Woman is HauntedBetsy Littrell's debut collection explores the secrets that women keep. Using both lyrical and narrative styles, her voice is strong and real as she searches for peace through childhood, relationships, womanhood and motherhood. The experiences are often shared universally, but not often spoken about,...
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The Courtship of Miles StandishFirst published in 1858, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" is a narrative poem written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has since become an important part...
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A Sun Inside My ChestTerri Kirby Erickson's sixth collection of poems, A Sun Inside My Chest, is one of those big books, the kind that fling themselves straight into our hearts and wedge there forever among the songs and prayers that sustain us. . . Her poems resound...
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ArenaPoetry. Thoughtfully, painfully, bitterly, lovingly, the poems in Lauren Shapiro's ARENA expose how the limits of the unreal become real when one is forced to interrogate a family member's attempted suicide. But what is interrogated and assimilated and articulated is not just death, mourning,...
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La Piel En Los Labios / My Skin on Your LipsMiguel Gane, autor referente de la nueva generaci n de poetas, nos transporta en su tercer poemario a un universo lleno de sensualidad, en el que los sentidos son protagonistas esenciales. Poemas que cuentan el inicio y fin del amor desde el erotismo y...
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