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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Born Palestinian, Born Black: & The Gaza SuiteUpSet Press has restored to print Suheir Hammad's first book of poems, Born Palestinian, Born Black, originally published by Harlem River Press in 1996. The new edition is augmented with a new author's preface, and new poems, under the heading, The Gaza Suite, as...
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Bestiary: PoemsDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thoughtmyself body enough for two, for we.Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back,...
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AvidyaThe poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK and the USA. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan...
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Apple: (Skin to the Core)PRINTZ AWARD HONORNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST A moving memoir-in-verse that chronicles one Native teenager's search for belonging The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In Apple (Skin...
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An Optimism: PoemsHere is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible...
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And Another ThingPatrick Paridee Samuel's And Another Thing is an audacious, shape-shifting collection that moves through queer identity, pop culture, desire, and dislocation with sharp wit and restless energy. The poems are tactile and cinematic, layering surreal imagery with the raw textures of memory, lust, and...
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Ancestors Said: 365 Introspections for Emotional HealingA joy-filled gift from the ancestors composed of 365 gentle prayers and affirmations to intuitively provide you with healing all year long. "Ancestors said they experience life through your eyes. Living your life as full as you can nourishes them. You being alive is...
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A Midnight Treasury of Macabre and Weird PoemsA handsome tome of dark poetry to feed the fans of all things macabre, gothic, and weird. The perfect book for fans of Edgar Allan Poe and, more widely, for those who love their dark side with a touch of horror. Poetry's fascination with...
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All This Is Love: A Collection of Virgin Islands Poetry, Art & ProseAll This is Love: A Collection of Virgin Islands Poetry, Art & Prose is a poignant reminder of the reservoir of artistic talent constantly percolating in the Virgin Islands. The contributors, each an accomplished artist in her or his own right, have brought a...
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All the Words I Can Remember Are PoemsAll The Words I Can Remember Are Poems challenges colonized ideas of history and truth, particularly in relation to Filipinx/a/o history and its colonization by the United States. Engaging with archival materials and playing with the sounds of remembered words and their unique associations,...
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All I See Is You: Poems and Prose on MotherhoodJessica's poetry books have sold over 150,000 copies worldwide!"Mama, I can't see past you right now, I'm so small and everything's a little blurry.All I see is you.When you feel alone, like the walls are closing in, remember I'm here too. I know your...
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A Literary Field Guide to Southern AppalachiaGetting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth....
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Agrippina the Younger: PoemsA poetic journey through the past of the Roman Empress Agrippina looks toward the future Agrippina the Younger follows one woman's study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter...
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AgathaThis is not just a book about the body but a profound exploration of what it means to inhabit one. In Agatha, Lex Orgera masterfully weaves a tapestry of poems that delve into the myriad ways a body navigates the world-through selfhood, autonomy, and...
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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 Child's Anthology of PoetryA timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages--an indispensable introduction to literature and life that brings together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry.The simple pleasures of reading and listening to poetry can...
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A Bright and Borrowed Light: Poems"A kaleidoscopic and finely-tuned voice full of acuity, wit, intelligence and, perhaps most importantly, a deep and defiant love for a world burning at its edges. I am so grateful to have come upon this true poet." --Ocean VuongA gorgeous collection of poems exploring...
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{#289-128}: Poems"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections --...
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101 Famous PoemsFully indexed by title, author, and first line, this much-loved collection, in print since 1916, is a wide-ranging collection of the best-known English language poets, from William Shakespeare Robert Frost, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edna St. Vincent Millay.Author: Roy J. CookPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished:...
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Wounded in the House of a FriendAn exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez writes of an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape,...
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