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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Scrap BookScrap Book, the debut collection from Nick Martino, is a lyric, hybrid exploration of his father's prison sentence and its aftermath--an inherited history marked by silence, fracture, shame, and addiction. Weaving poems with invented forms, familial documents, and fragmented memory, Martino constructs an autoethnographic...
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Raging MeditationsIn T.C. Barrera's debut poetry book, Raging Meditations, he explores themes such as addiction, recovery, regret, mental health, cognitive dissonance, internet brain rot, testicular cancer scares, political unrest, the generational identity crisis, and the evils of self-checkout. An unflinching, unafraid collection of 101 poems,...
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Poems of Robert Frost (Masterpiece Library Edition)Read Robert Frost's first five poetry collections in one stunning volume. Frost's poems are remembered for their musicality, direct language, moving images, and ability to inspire introspection and awe. Elegant Masterpiece Library Edition honors the Peter Pauper Press founders' tradition of publishing beautiful books....
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PentimentoFrom an Italian word meaning "to repent," a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist's earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes of confession, ekphrasis, and biblical persona, Pentimento excavates a queerness entangled...
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Peach State: PoemsFinalist, 2022 Patterson Poetry Prize Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly...
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My Life in Moments: A Poetic MemoirThis sweet and intimate poetic memoir by Jessica Amos, invites you to question the nuance of memory and how it changes over time, just as we do. Who's to say why we remember the things we do, and forget others? What evidence is there...
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Love You, Now Listen: A Father's Short Poems About LifeLife, like a cigarIt is to be enjoyedFor each breath we takeBrings us closer to the end ...A father reflects on a life well-lived in these poignant, uplifting poems. As thunder rumbles and waves roll by, the speakers marvel at small miracles, reminding us...
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Looking for the Gulf MotelRead "a collection of poems you will want to take with you, everywhere you go" (Indiana Review) by the 2013 inaugural poet for President Barack Obama. Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking...
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Lincoln's Lover: Mary Lincoln in PoetryIn his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other--one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what we know about ancient history throughout the...
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Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John TrudellLines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of...
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King MeOn the "Best Poetry Books of the Year" list from Library Journal "A sophisticated and breathtaking writer, Reeves takes the reader on a harrowing journey: each poem comes packed with arresting imagery, relentless in its examination of how tragedy and trauma become internalized --...
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Journeys of the MindJourneys of the Mind is a poetic exploration of memory, healing, and self-discovery. With lyrical grace and emotional depth, Paisley Rose invites readers into a world where pain transforms into power and difference becomes beauty. This collection is for those who've broken and rebuilt,...
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Idylls of the KingFrom the influential English poet, a collection of poems featuring the legendary King Arthur, a hero imbued with the values of the Victorian age Alfred Tennyson had a lifelong interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem...
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Iblees KI Majlis-E-Shoora: The Devil's Advisory CouncilIblees ki Majlis-e-Shoora is a conversation between Iblees (the devil) and the five members of his advisory council. It is one of the final works of Allama Iqbal. The work consists of 64 amazingly dramatized, well composed couplets. Here, Iblees presides over the clandestine...
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Homer's Odyssey: An Illustrated RetellingA lush, illustrated prose edition of Homer's Odyssey, written by American classical scholar Barry Powell and featuring beautiful, woodcut-style artwork Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan. Embark on a timeless journey with Homer's Odyssey, one of the most epic...
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in VerseIntroduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In...
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Four Nose Jobs a Day: Poems"Banhart approaches somber themes with whimsy... his work expounds on a crucial tenet of queerness: liberation in lightness and in unabashed optimism. Funny and enduringly weird. " --PITCHFORKLike Devendra Banhart's music and visual art, his poetry appears at the convergence of humor and sorrow,...
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For Every One"A lyrical masterpiece." --School Library Journal (starred review) Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author...
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Fancy Feet: Guess Who's Walking (the Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series)From the slimy snail to the jumping kangaroo, kids will delight in learning about the many fantastic feet of our world in this nonfiction picture book guessing game and companion to Wonder Wings from critically acclaimed creators Rebecca E. Hirsch and Sally Soweol HanSome...
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Don't Let It Kill You: PoemsFrom hospital rooms to dive bars, Don't Let It Kill You by Theo LeGro confronts the complexities of loss and mortality with ferocity and wit. These poems test the tension between survival and surrender, healing and destruction, where the body is a site of...
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