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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Fifty Mothers: PoemsPreeti Vangani's Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker's Bombay home. Pierced with joy, with music and sweat, traffic and smoke, the collection layers family dynamics, gender roles, and the pain and pleasure...
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Every Place on the Map Is Disabled: Poems and EssaysAn anthology of poems and essays by and celebrating Disabled writers Declaring that Disabled people exist, innovate, thrive, and persevere, Every Place on the Map Is Disabled imagines the world we deserve. Its contributors spotlight the wisdom Disabled people embody from living within and...
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Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative PressThe innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses. In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kosick chronicles the rise, work, and legacy of the Alternative Press, a grassroots art and poetry publishing initiative founded in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Operated by Ken...
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Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An ErasureA revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine's Common Sense--calling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans In his famous cry for inhabitants of the thirteen colonies to seek independence from Britain, Thomas Paine claims to...
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Breathing Room: Poems of Rest and RetreatAward-winning author and poet James Crews's newest poetry collection gives readers permission to find the pause in every moment and cultivate healing from a sense of everyday awe for nature, each other, and our fractured world. With the world returning to its old, unsustainable...
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Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary EndingsBreaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal...
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BachelorIn Bachelor's opening poem, Gustavo Hernandez writes "I often stand right here and wonder about my voice. What it is now." The "here" in Hernandez's poems is opalescent: the physical and spiritual footprint of the family home; the wide wake of loss; the stillness...
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A Suit or a Suitcase: PoemsInstant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space. The title of Maggie Smith's new collection comes...
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A Stone's Throw from CrayMichelle Alexander's A Stone's Throw from C r a y takes up and is moved by radical Black creativity. To be thrown here unfolds an experience of human connection, struggle, and transformation within and outside institutionalized and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The poems skip across surfaces...
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A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor PlayA paean to play from an award-winning poet and a New York Times best-selling illustrator. The trappings of childhood change from generation to generation, but there are some timeless activities that every kid loves. Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham celebrate these universal types of...
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A Season: PoemsA Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen--between self and world, sound and echo, the uncanny and the sublime--they work to reweave an intimacy...
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Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time. With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser's poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of...
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A Little FeralIn A Little Feral, Maria Giesbrecht delivers a debut collection that navigates faith, family, and personal resurrection through a voice at once wild, intimate, and quietly rebellious. Written in the aftermath of leaving a conservative Mennonite upbringing, these poems chart a parallel journey of...
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After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025A revolutionary anthology of visual poetry contextualizing works within their original small-press publications, from authors such as Wallace Berman and Marian Zazeela to titles such as Ginger Snaps and FuturaBy the 1960s, visual and experimental poetry was widely acknowledged as the first truly international...
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A Dollar For SundayBorn from a desire to forge a creative path through life's hurts, this book is a testament to the power of faith and the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on a lifetime of reading and a deep-seated calling to serve others, the author...
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13 Questions for the Next Economy: New & Selected WorksSusan Briante, award-winning poet and chronicler of globalization, The Great Recession, and the militarization of daily life, returns with 13 Questions for the Next Economy. This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus prize-winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from...
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We (the People of the United States)"An essential addition to the American poetic canon." --Booklist From an award-winning poet praised for his "rhapsodic, rigorous" work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made...
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Poems for Every Season: A Year of Haiku, Sonnets, and More⭐ "Splendid."--Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)⭐ "A remarkable collaboration." --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)⭐ "Charming." --Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)Poetry and the beauty of nature combine for this breathtaking celebration of the year.In this stunning combination of wordcraft and woodcuts, readers meet the changing seasons with thirteen poems,...
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More More More, Said the Baby: A Caldecott Honor Award WinnerShare this Caldecott Honor-winning book with the little ones in your life. Vera B. Williams's tribute to babies and the people who love them is a happy celebration--you won't be able to stop smiling while reading the catchy refrains.Here are Little Guy, Little Pumpkin,...
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Black Passport: A Migrant's MemoirIn Black Passport, Paul Akpomuje takes us through a journey of black African migration in Canada, tracing the complexities of identity, the possibilities of fugitivity, the weight of home, and the ways borders, paperwork, and diasporic placemaking shape and are shaped by belonging.This collection...
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