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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WashWASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart's praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a devotional space for healing.Stewart's third collection is uncompromising and emotionally raw. Through trauma and recovery, black girlhood comes...
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War and the IliadWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is...
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War All the Time"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterWar All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but...
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Walt Whitman: A LifeWinner of the National Book Award"Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking--hugely human, enormously attractive." --NewsweekA moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet--his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility--an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America. In...
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Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected PoemsVoodoo Libretto is in many ways a book of memories, a chronicle of both the personal and the political sensibility of a black baby-boomer. Driven by a restless and wide-ranging imagination, the poems are sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious, sometimes erotic, sometimes mystical, and...
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights MovementA Caldecott Honor BookA Robert F. Sibert Honor BookA John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award WinnerStirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights. "I am sick and tired of being sick...
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Vintage HughesThe perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories. "Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature...
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Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative ActsVerb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich's artistic collaborations with choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, galleries, and museums. Erdrich pairs her poems with reflections on these collaborations and with prompts for readers to generate their own art-inspired...
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Tummy Time FriendsFeatured in Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's 2021 Best Books for Babies list!Tummy Time Friends has been selected by Raising Readers--a nonprofit organization of pediatricians and early-reading specialists--to give to every Maine infant at the four-month-old wellness check.Infants will lift their heads to see the...
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Travesty GeneratorLike a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data. The poems pay homage to...
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TranzIn her debut collection, TRANZ, Spencer Williams writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers them structurally and individually. Her blistering lyrics and acerbic wit never flatten her...
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Tortured Poetsthis isnot an albumnot a departmentjust you and mebeing forced towrite an anthologythat was boundto failAuthor: Willow BoweryPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 02/24/2024Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41dISBN: 9798879948295This title is not returnable
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Through Rays of LightThrough Rays of Light is an anthology that captures that even in the darkest nights, we can find our way through rays of light, hope, and love. No matter how deep the valley is, we're never alone. God always sends a ray of light...
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The Years of BloodWinner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC WriterISELE MAGAZINE EDITOR'S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 THE MODACULTURE 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025 OPEN COUNTRY MAGAZINE ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo Agarau...
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The Unreliable Tree: PoemsA luminous poetry collection that weaves together nature, family ties, and memory Born from a state of fragmented time, the poems in The Unreliable Tree call out the intimate feelings mothers so often fear to share. With a precise and tender eye, Margot Kahn...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Dogs: The Classic EditionCelebrate the holiday season with The Twelve Days of Christmas Dogs, a delightful canine twist on the classic holiday poem. This charming book features original illustrations that bring to life twelve festive, playful dog breeds.The traditional twelve days of Christmas poem is joyfully reimagined,...
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The Trees Witness EverythingA lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of...
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The Ten Thousand Leaves: Poems from the Man'yoshuA sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, and so much more. One of the most important works of Japanese literature of all time, available here in an accessible translation. The first and greatest anthology...
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The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field GuideA land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and pause, hawks hunt like wolves, and bobcats skulk in...
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The SonnetsLike the plays in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, The Sonnets has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. Each sonnet is presented with accompanying material which aims to enrich your own experience of the poem, whilst leaving you to...
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