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 Acrobat: Essential PoemsA paperback originalA vibrant collection of the lasting, essential work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska's work is known for its precision, cleverness, deceptive simplicity, and the way the poet plays out domestic and human concerns against the tapestry of history. With...
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Sun Under WoodRobert Hass demonstrates once again the unmistakable intelligence and original voice that have won him both literary acclaim and the affection of a broad general readership. Here Hass extends and deepens his ongoing explorations of nature and human history, solitude, and the bonds of...
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St. Matthew PassionFrom one of the most lauded poets of her generation comes a major new work. Winner of the International Griffin Prize, the Rome Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, among many other awards, Gjertrud Schnackenberg has always put her technical...
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Proverbs of Limbo: PoemsA new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of...
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Neighborhood OdesAward-winning poet Gary Soto and Caldecott winner David Diaz turn their eyes on the world of kids. From family pictures to pinatas, from the gato with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the startling and often overlooked moments that...
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Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate ShipwreckQuebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado...
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Everything Is Water: Poems Volume 13Everything Is Water is an open letter to caregivers as the speaker grapples with her partner's life-threatening illness, pregnancy and new motherhood, and marriage. Growing up on the Virginia coast, the speaker knows the water's danger and allure--asks, what is beneath, what has control...
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Devotional ForensicsWinner, Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his highly anticipated debut collection. Kidney's rich, innovative imagery finds the durable in the contemporary and articulates a...
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Daughter of the Mountains: Poems of Heartbreak & HomecomingA "beautiful poetry collection" (Electric Lit) that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters...
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Burnt Toast At SunriseBurnt Toast At Sunrise by Jessie Raelynn is a poetry collection about sudden loss, survival, and the miracle of finding your way back to joy and hope alongside grief.The collection unfolds across three sections, tracing the shape of grief. It begins with the shock...
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Broken RadioBroken Radio is a compilation of poems and short stories about love, war, and quirky experiences of my life. James J Barry was born and raised in Massachusetts and currently resides in New Hampshire with his wife, Suzanne. He is a proud father of...
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Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & FragmentsThe Pulitzer Prize winner's final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for "His hands strip poetry to its nub." --Los Angeles Times "Reading [Wright] is like walking...
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All There Is to LoseMarking Aiden Heung's debut collection, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems,...
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70,000: PoemsA powerful act of remembrance and resistance, 70,000 transforms cultural erasure into an archive of grief, memory, and hope. 70,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspired by the removal of approximately 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during...
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When You Were HumanThis collection of poetry offers readers multiple entry points to discover the Virgin Mary- as the miraculous mother of God and as the archetypal spiritual mother of all. By examining how Mary is introduced to us through prayer candles, car air-fresheners, ritual prayer, legend,...
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When Mulligrubs CallThis illustrated poetry book takes readers on a journey of emotions, friendship, and hope. Faye is a lovely and curious creature having dazzling colors who loves dancing. One day, the colors fade, and unfamiliar sadness settles in. Faye starts thinking that this darkness will...
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Vietnam War Combat PoetryAbout the AuthorI joined the Army to go to war in Vietnam because my uncles and father served in WW2. I chose armor as my M.O.S. I was trained on the M-60-A1 tanks. I qualified expert in tank weapons. My M.O.S. was 11-E-30 tanks...
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Tiki BlueGreg West faced the unimaginable reality of losing his beautiful wife, Tiki, after 31 years of marriage. Two years later, the weight of grief slowly began to melt, reshaping itself into enduring memories. In the quiet aftermath of that loss, a new journey began.Tiki...
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The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer's Epic"Phil Cousineau always notices what nobody else does -- a sure sign of a sharp writer. His odyssey through the Odyssey uncovers new sights at every site." -- Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events A fresh, modern companion...
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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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