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's a Reason Flowers Are Not GrayNanci Woody was a college Dean and author of accounting and business math textbooks before writing her novel, Tears and Trombones. It won the IPPY (Independent Publishers) award for "Best Fiction in the Western Pacific." Recently she wrote the pilot for a streaming series...
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Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems"Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and The Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterLos Angeles slums, bars, and more...
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Room Swept HomeIntimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineageWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationRoom Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all...
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(On Un-)Becoming: Poems(On Un-)Becoming is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency's mother, chosen family & other selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of "transitioning" from the realm of Westernized notions of gender and expands exploresexplodes...
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January ChildrenSillerman First Book Prize for African Poets2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."--Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years...
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How the Light Gets In: And Other Headlong EpiphaniesSixty prose poems ("proems," by the author's reckoning) on matters theological, spiritual, and mystical. White a bit outside Orbis' traditional spirituality offerings, this book will offer readers a lyrical but commonsense take on the ways grace, prayer, sin, suffering, and redemption play out in...
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Galahad and the Grail (Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad), 1"An astonishing achievement. . ." -- Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi"Vigorous and fresh. . . whets the appetite for much more." -- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury"A rare glimpse at a magnum opus in the making." Daniel...
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Feral Skies: Selected PoemsThis is quite evident in impressive condensations visible in several poems. The poems amply show the vigor of everyday idiom and vocabulary. Ken Hada lives and writes in the Cross Timbers in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. Much of his writing is grounded in the ecology...
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Empty Nest: Poems for FamiliesA stunning anthology of poems edited by Carol Ann Duffy on that special bond between parent and child through life, featuring some of our most beloved poets.Author: Carol Ann DuffyPublisher: Picador USAPublished: 02/17/2022Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9781529028690About the...
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Dear DearWinner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award, Reuben Gelley Newman's Dear Dear renders queer love through the lens of music, art, nature, and politics. Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski, Gelley Newman flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking...
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Complete Spanish Workbook For Adult Beginners: Essential Spanish Words And Phrases You Must KnowHow amazing would it feel if learning conversational Spanish came naturally to you?Learning a brand new language, especially Spanish, can seem extremely daunting for students. Unfortunately, 80% of students give up before ever becoming conversationally fluent in Spanish... which means they'll never be able...
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BreatheHicok's newest collection interrogates love, purpose, belief, and desire with stunning candor and an ever-burning desire for understanding.Hicok's poetry has long been distinctive for its compassionate breadth of feeling, curiosity, and play. In Breathe, he meets the social and cultural moment, soothing distress with...
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BrambleThis seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. In the biblical book of Judges, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and fairy tales, roses grow...
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Bottom FeedersA vibrant and gritty debut from poet Arielle Hebert, Bottom Feeders is a queer coming-of-age collection set in late 2000s Florida, during the height of the opioid epidemic. Here, overdoses, red tide blooms, and hurricanes are as much a part of growing up as...
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Blue Ink Tears: A Collection of PoemsIn this bilingual poetry collection, Roberto Germán, shares writing across 20 years of his life. The poems tell stories of love, relationships, race, identity, and everyday living. These subjects divide the book into three parts. The poetic forms include free verse, rhyme, haiku and...
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Black Hole FactoryA black hole is a region of space-time exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing-not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light-can escape from inside it. In Black Hole Factory, poet Eric Smith writes his way into and out of such holes with...
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Away to See: Martha's VineyardA poetic and painterly tribute to Martha's Vineyard, Away to See captures the beauty, stillness, and spirit of this iconic coastal destination through lyrical prose and vibrant, full-color paintings. With 46 original works by Paul Norwood and reflective vignettes by Liz Norwood, this contemplative...
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America Tis of Thee: Whose Sweet Land of Liberty? Collection of PoemsAmerica Tis of Thee: Whose Sweet Land of Liberty? is a compelling collection of contemporary poetry that explores the complexities of freedom, democracy, race, and identity in America. In this powerful work, Adriane L. Johnson uses thought-provoking verse to examine social injustice, political division,...
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A Catalog of Future Mercies: PoemsIn ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violence In this luminous memoir-in-poems, Serena Chopra explores the complexities of mercy in an immigrant family haunted by generational violence. Drawing connections between the brutalized prairie beneath suburban lawns...
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28 Portuguese Poets: A Bilingual AnthologyThis major bilingual anthology, with English translations by Richard Zenith and Alexis Levitin, introduces the work of 28 Portuguese poets (beginning with Fernando Pessoa and his 'heteronyms'), and reveals a richly varied body of verse that is at once a place of departure and...
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