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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There Once Was a GIrl...This charming collection of poems was written over the course of a lifetime. From poems about being a mother of young children to reflections on aging and illness, There Once Was Girl... offers a glimpse into the inner life of a mid-western woman of...
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Refuge & OccasionVyt Bakaitis, poet and eminent translator from the Lithuanian, has gathered here poems from the past decade. This new collection, Refuge & Occasion, pursues several strands that ultimately braid together with characteristic freedom of shape and music whereby the requirements of the utterance design...
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The Sex The Lies The Soul TiesWe do live in a saturated sex world. When sex is taken outside of God's purpose, the lies and soul ties begin to be evident. In this book, we go from the pain of silence to healing from broken chains.Author: Denise BrysonPublisher: Afflatus Publishing...
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Lent Then and Now. People, Poems, and PortraitsThis is a book of poems, written from the imagined point of view of Biblical characters, for each day of Lent. In an attempt to look at these events in a new way, each poem is accompanied by the portrait of a 21st century...
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The Song of the Massacred Jewish PeopleThe remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each...
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The Lady of the LakeAfter James Douglas and his daughter Ellen are banished from their home, they go into hiding with the help of several enemies of the king. The Lady of the Lake is an intricate story filled with political and social intrigue, romance and chivalry. James...
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Waltzing with Water: Tempos in VerseWith this collection of poems, Elizabeth Spencer Spragins explores the mystical and musical allure of flowing water in landscapes across the country and beyond with the intention of deepening connections between nature and spirit. As the tempo increases from adagio to andante to allegro,...
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The Labyrinth of Love: Selected Sonnets and Other PoemsRenaissance and Medieval StudiesSeries Editor: Charles Ross This is a verse-translation of a sixteenth-century French poet who is considered one of the greatest of all Renaissance lyric poets. The translation endeavors to capture and convey the intensity, passion, and musicality of Ronsard's verse. The...
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RoseSunWaterRoseSunWater is a collection of bioluminescent writing that seeks to keep memory alive in the face of colonial gentrification of the city, the peninsula, and the mind. The writing contained seeks to render the spillage of the spirit through ancestral retracings from Los Angeles...
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Hæstingas: A retelling of the valiant fall of England in verseDragons, mythical beasts, mighty warriors and perilous forests. This is England in 1066. The Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, is bound north to repel a strong force of Norsemen - unaware of the approaching threat upon the southern shores of his kingdom. Among his army of...
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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Esprios Classics)Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors...
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A DestiempoPoes a del amor y del desamor como trasfondo. Poes a urbana con destinatario.Author: Susana Gómez Martín, Inma Gómez MartínPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 01/13/2021Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.18dISBN: 9798593957276Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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NaturePoetry. A long poem that's an essay but not, a work of philosophy but not, a gently stated argument that seems to have multiple points heading in multiple directions; a text about nature but also about thinking, language, identity, consciousness, science, idealism, economics, religion,...
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What Feels Like Love: New and Selected PoemsAfter holding the prestigious Kingsbury Fellowship at Florida State University and landing a professorship at Western Kentucky University, Tom C. Hunley published two volumes of poetry in 2004: The Tongue, described by Philip Dacey as having "the kind of insouciance praised by Whitman and...
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Opera BuffaOpera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises / There are no foodstuffs....
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Everything Never Comes Your WayIn her third collection, Nicole Stellon O'Donnell explores the landscapes of memory, argument, and wilderness. These poems deconstruct memoir, dig at the roots of philosophical argumentation, and critique the role of the poet as an observer of the natural world. From manicured baseball fields...
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Still Growing WildflowersHere's the thing about wildflowers...they dance, even when it seems there is nothing worth dancing for. They bloom with or without you.Readers who love "Milk and Honey", "The things I didn't say in therapy", and "The Princess Saves Herself in This One" will relate...
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New York DiaryLike a prose version of a chatty Frank O'Hara poem, Tim Dlugos' New York Diary is dense with the goings-on of a crush of proper names we normally might not care much about. Yet-again like O'Hara-Tim, in his accurately super-speedy rendering of the summer...
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Snow Approaching on the Hudson: PoemsAugust Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise, wise, and sometimes madcap poems that are grounded in the wide array of places, people, and most especially voices he has encountered in his real and imaginative worlds. Snow Approaching on the Hudson is a...
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Lovers of TodayIn Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining. Taken from a bar of the same name in New York...
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