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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I Carry my Ancestors in my BonesIn this deeply personal and transformative debut collection, queer Mexican immigrant scholar, professor, and mother Dra. Hortencia Jimenez invites readers on a journey of healing, reclamation, and radical self-love.Blending English, Spanish, and Spanglish, and lived experience, these poems explore identity, immigration, culture, food, ancestry,...
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Harvest of What RemainsThis book is a tribute to all caregivers, whose dedication often goes unrecognized. It offers comfort and understanding to anyone who has cared for someone with dementia, or anyone who has witnessed the slow unraveling of memory. It should be obligatory reading for all...
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Eek, You Reek!: Poems about Animals That Stink, Stank, StunkEek, you reek, You make a funk. Where you have been Things stink, stank, stunk. You've left a path, A swath of smell, And--yuck! You did it very well. Warning: this book reeks! It's rotten, rancid, foul, and funky. Within these pages, you'll find...
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Documentary Now!: Fourth Edition (Revised and Expanded)McSweeney's and Broadway Video present the official nearly-600-page comprehensive companion book to IFC's Documentary Now!, including new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, the complete sheet music for Co-Op: The Musical, and much more. Hitchcock/Truffaut, Cahiers du Cinéma,...
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Defacing the MonumentDefacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation. It's an attempt to bear witness to what...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: A poem by Walt WhitmanPoetry by Walt Whitman. Book design by Lawrence Jay Switzer. Walt Whitman's glorious tribute to America and Americans. A single poem, 32 pages, full color, Illustrated. Book design by Lawrence Jay Switzer.Author: Lawrence Jay SwitzerPublisher: BlurbPublished: 01/08/2019Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w...
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Candilazo: A Poetic SweetIn Candilaso: A Poetic Sweet, the poems explore the beauty nature provides: purple fog under El Escorial outside Madrid, Spain, from turmoil to thankfulness to God for recovering from sickness, gleaming blue eyes by strong light reflection and vase artistry silhouetted by a woman...
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Bloodroom"Do you identify with any of the above terminology? Occasionally. Some days they feel appropriate. Others, I resent these tools of our language. I reject and embrace, synchronously."Bloodroom is a howling, scorching debut collection of deftly formatted poetry-circling, and delicately probing, themes of familial...
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Birds of America: PoemsAn evocative, uplifting, and thoughtfully illustrated collection of poems steeped in the natural world, examining life and healing in the aftermath of trauma "An achievement . . . This book reminds us what poetry is capable of."--José Olivarez, author of Promises of Gold See...
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Amphibian: PoemsExploring queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino AmericanHow does a queer brown body move through the American panorama? In Amphibian, Joseph O. Legaspi explores the metaphor of "amphibious living"--adapting, surviving, and flourishing in varying geographies--as it pertains...
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What's Possible: New & Selected PoemsW.H. Auden said about poetry: "there is only one thing / that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being / and for happening." For forty years, Robert Cording's poems have sought to praise a world that need not be,...
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: PoemsFrom a master lyric poet characterized by Mary Oliver as "a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting and oratory" comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of...
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We Are the Dreams of Our AncestorsWe are the hopes and dreams of our ancestors. We are unstoppable! This powerful poem was written by five Black, bold, and brilliant children, along with Wisdom Mawusi, writer, educator, and activist. Through vibrant illustrations and rhythmic language, this enchanting book celebrates different cultures...
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Warrior DadWarrior Dad is a powerful collection of odes and illustrations inspired by a father's love for his daughter and shaped by years of military service. It tells the story of a father deploying across long seasons of war while watching his child grow from...
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Ugly WhimsyA bard of the social media age, comedian Joshua Turek is the author of two bestselling poetry collections, On the Outside Looking Up and Of Dumb Importance. His trademark conversational style continues in his third collection, Ugly Whimsy, where the writer searches for the...
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This Is How the Bone Sings"THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of war and unspeakable trauma. This lyric collection of profound beauty and grief reminds us to share our tales of generational trauma and topography-shaping our...
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The Works of Anne BradstreetAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work. Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's...
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The Song of RolandOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem...
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The Great Gathering PlaceA gorgeous and powerful celebration of finding belonging and community.This poetic picture book begins with an invitation: "Let's go to the Great Gathering Place. Come, I'll take you in my big red canoe." Readers travel along the river to a special place on the...
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Summer is... A Summer Read Aloud Rhyming Book for Toddlers and Kids: Fun and Educational Rhyming Picture BookSummer Is... A Joyful, Rhyming Celebration of the Season! Supports early literacy through rhythm and rhyme Encourages seasonal awareness and nature-based learning A keepsake for celebrating summer, year after yearFrom sandy shores to bright blue skies, Summer Is... captures the joy of summer through...
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