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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The Little Book of EThe poet lives inside and outside of life. In the little book of e poet E. Ethelbert Miller embraces the Japanese poetic form of haiku to comment on our contemporary world. Written during the pandemic Miller's poems follow in the tradition of Basho and...
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The Last Place on EarthIn this autobiographical book of poems, the arcof a life is considered from childhood to last days, each poem a stop along the way. From remembering how his mother wrote, "A bird / skipped across the surface of the page." To consideringhow he might...
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The K?rm?n LineThe K?rm?n line describes the altitude at which outer space begins and national airspace ends, where the body in flight achieves orbit. In The K?rm?n Line, a heartsick narrator drives across the Jornada del Muerto to the commercial rocket launch site Spaceport America. Tracing...
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The Grateful Giraffes: What is Gratitude?A Treat for All Ages Discover the keys to gratitude with the Grateful Giraffes: Gift, Gail & Gilbert as they bring to life the lighthearted and empowering poem, Gratitude Is.Read along with children to explore the big words, and how to make gratefulness a...
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The Diminishing HouseIn Nicky Beer's The Diminishing House, birds are disemboweled, a father is mourned, and a basement fills with snakes. This first book of resonant lyric poetry meditates on such subjects as animals, art, and anatomy, and transforms the familiar and mundane into something strangely...
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The Chapel of Small BreathOur lives are awash with moments when we come undone: we face a loved one's belongings after they have gone, a deer jumps in front of the car, or we face a debilitating illness. The Chapel of Small Breath meets us there. As the...
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The Chances of Harm: PoemsIn The Chances of Harm, Adrian Rice is a superb celebrant of the everyday, telling how though by times he may "feel that all of our days have really been the selfsame day", he rejoices in endless wonders around him, birds flitting, dusky trees,...
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The Blue Divide"With clarity and intensity, Linda Nemec Foster dives deep into the shadows, and deep into the light-global landscape, personal touch; faith and art; the sensual and the cruel; forward and backward through generations of family, acknowledging loss wherever it occurs-all with her trademark tenderness...
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The Birthday YearsOff and on since Rachel Guido deVries was eleven years old, she has written a poem on her birthday. Now at 75, she has gathered these poems into a collection both intimate and expansive, mixing the natural world with personal insight.Author: Rachel Guido DeVriesPublisher:...
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The Birds Are Singing In The SnowThese poems are intended to help people fall more in love with the natural world. Grounded in accessible language, each poem tries to bridge mind and heart to create a luminous and spiritual connection to all that is.Author: John M. BatesPublisher: Manitowish River PressPublished:...
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The Aching Unrest of SpheresThe Aching Unrest of Spheres consists of poems written between 2002 and 2022 in Hawaii and the high desert of Northern Arizona. The poems explore personal mythology, love and desire, often set within dreamscapes and immersion in nature. The narratives often function as spiritual...
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Tall As You Are Tall Between Them"A fierce and frightening intelligence animates Annie Christain's Tall As You Are Tall Between Them, a book of teeming references and unsettling implications. Whether they've sprung from biblical figures, pop stars, or serial killers, these wild, wide-ranging monologues can sound like depositions or fever...
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Talking to the Machines and Other PoemsMarc Thomas, in his second volume of poetry since Surviving Fragments, takes on the machines -- how artificial intelligence says more about Us than Them -- and reflects on the once-in-a-century COVID pandemic as well as the century-old (and often inscrutable) literary masterpiece of...
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short IntroductionSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed...
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Swimming Swimmers SwimmingThese poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits....
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SurPoetry that explores wildness and composes a landscape of complex human emotions. Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to the natural...
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So You Know You're Not AloneTo be present with what is, to feel peace within the now. To shift thought patterns, to move through grief, and accept the passing of time. To allow yourself to feel and be with your emotions. To have faith.Author: Becca TaylorPublisher: Becca TaylorPublished: 10/22/2024Pages:...
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Southern Poets And Poems, 1606 -1860: The Land They Loved Volume 1THIS COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN POETS AND POEMS, 1606-1860, is made not from the viewpoint of a literary critic but that of a student of history interested in how the experiences of the Southern people have been reflected in verse. Poetry contains a kind of...
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Sonnets and Lyrics: By Helen Jackson (H.H.)This exquisite collection of poetry showcases the talents of Helen Hunt Jackson, one of America's greatest literary figures. Featuring both sonnets and lyrics written under her penname, 'H.H.', this volume includes some of Jackson's most enduring and beloved works, such as 'Traveller's Repose' and...
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Revel -- Issue No. 2Revel Issue 2, available July 2024, contains over 200 pages of literary excellence, including: Essays & Stories by: Charles Baxter: seven short piecesSarah C. Harwell: on motherhood and piracyAlice Jones: a mixed-genre memoir essay by a psychoanalystAimee Parkison: a storyLinda Gregerson: Eliot and Ignorance...
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