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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What to Carry Into the FutureSet within New York City's subways, streets, and waterways, What to Carry into the Future explores the form resilience takes in the face of ongoing crises.Author: Susan LandersPublisher: Roof BooksPublished: 03/12/2025Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9798991501101About the AuthorSusan (Sue) Landers is the author of Franklinstein...
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What Learning Leaves: New EditionCalled "a ranting comic showman and a literary provocateur" by The New York Times, Taylor Mali writes eloquently and entertainingly about his experiences in and out of the middle school classroom. Bob Holman, the man who brought the poetry slam to New York City,...
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We Were HerePoetry from the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian war.Author: Artur Dron, Yuliya MusakovskaPublisher: Jantar PublishingPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781914990267
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Wamponomon: The Place of ShellsWAMPONOMON: The Place of Shells is a poignant and heart-breaking look at the past we all carry within us. A reflection on place, it is the Long Island of the author's childhood, but also the history of the land, both real and imagined. It...
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Waltharius: The Latin Epic of Walther of AquitaineWaltharius is one of the great monuments of medieval European literature. Set in a fifth-century world of Goths, Huns, Franks, and Burgundians, this poem from the ninth or tenth century tells a lively tale of adventure, treachery, and combat. It recounts the daring escape...
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Vita NuovaDANTE ALIGHIERI: THE VITA NUOVA Translated by Dante Gabriel RossettiEdited by Cassidy Hughes Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova is his 'Book of Memory', the poetic account of his love for Beatrice Portinari. It is one of the great poetry books of love in world literature....
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ViableIn Viable, Julie Hensley has woven a beautifully contemplated life, as the speaker becomes daughter, woman, writer, lover, mother, and branches outward into the voices of historical women who share the pain only mothers can. Sensual, intuitively musical, and incredibly observant, these poems turn...
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Uplyff Inc Presents Poetic Power: An Anthology of Contemporary PoetsThis collection of poems was written by members of Uplyff Inc's Poetic Power. Uplyff Inc is an African centered community organization based in Cleveland, Ohio structured on a foundation using the principles of Kwanzaa. This collection of poetry from various contributors focuses on the...
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They Will Tell You the World Is Yours: On Little Rebellions and Finding Your Way"There are wonder and wisdom in these pages."--Joanna Gaines Where do we find true fulfillment? How did we get lost along the way? These lushly written, emotionally resonant stories light candles along the path as we each search for purpose. They will tell you...
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The World Is My Canvas: R.I.P. Recovery in ProgressTake a glimpse into the journey of a man who has captivated listeners with his compelling life stories of addiction, incarceration, heartache, betrayal, loneliness, depression and even death. These poems are written from actual experience and each word is depicted with real emotion that...
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The VixenA remarkable volume of poems about the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch)."One of the most distinctive and original voices in American...
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The Small Blades HurtIn The Small Blades Hurt, Erica Dawson picks up where her debut collection, Big-Eyed Afraid, leaves off: "The world's outside. I'm in." She moves from her border state Maryland to the true South, the Midwest, and back, delivering poems where a single dance's story...
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七步诗: The Seven Step PoemThis is a story of two brothers and the jealousy that would end up gripping one and threatening the other... The Seven Step Poem: The Poem of the Seven Steps or Quatrain of Seven Steps is an ancient Chinese story that has been passed...
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The Poetry of My SoulThe Poetry of My Soul is a series of poetry books that consist of real-life stories gracefully transitioned into deeply expressed poems. These poems were written by a young female finding herself struggling to overcome feelings of grief, anger, hurt, and longingness. Volume 1:...
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The Pinko Commie DykeThe Pinko Commie Dyke is a lesbian archetype, an imagined dyke superhero, a dastardly villain, and an amalgamation of all lesbians and contemporary queer women. This edition of The Pinko Commie Dyke features a beautifully illustrated cover with original artwork by Isabel Clare Paul...
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The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and ConsolationThe comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry A Penguin Classic Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing...
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The Odyssey"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven / far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy" Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca....
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The Marriage of Heaven and HellThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal...
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The Golden Book of WordsThis landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again, both as a tribute and a joy to read. Mayer was a marvelous poet...
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The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of...
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