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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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal TimesStaying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our...
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Spendin' TimeFor fans of Oge Mora and Ezra Jack Keats comes a poetic and joyful tale about a young boy who runs errands with his grandfather in town, by critically acclaimed author, Gary R. Gray, Jr. (I'm From), and award-winning artist, Rahele Jomepour Bell."What are...
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Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989Author: Audre Lorde,Mecca Jamilah SullivanPublisher: Sinister WisdomPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781938334290About the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of ten volumes of poetry and five works of prose, including Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, The Black...
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SeabeastOrganized as an alphabetical bestiary, Seabeast lyrically catalogues whale species by common name and behaviors, resulting in a poetic compendium that defies pathetic fallacy even as it sings the similarities between homo sapiens and the marine mammoths that have long captured our fascination. In...
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Parable and Paradox: Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other PoemsSince the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom,...
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Orlando FuriosoThe only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's...
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Nocturama: PoemsA dazzling second collection from "an immensely gifted poet" (Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine).Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer's new poems attempt to make sense of some of life's darkest turns: a father's bout with leukemia, the slog of mental illness, a friend's...
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New York Ironweednew york ironweed was selected for the 2025 Ottoline Prize.new york ironweed is a field guide unlike any other. An intimate companion to take along with you on walks in New York or anywhere, new york ironweed's poems are energetic supersonic living beings. Intentionally...
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LiminalityThe word liminality refers to moments that exist in between-spaces where change quietly gathers its force. Like liminality itself, these poems linger at thresholds where love shifts, loss settles in, and transformation begins. Moving between the personal and the historical, the collection weaves lived...
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Last ConversationsLast Conversations lives in the moments we return to and the connections that continue to shape us long after they've ended. This poetry collection explores grief, love, and loss, tracing our lineage and the patterns we come to understand. Acknowledging that the past lingers...
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Killing Spree: PoemsA new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose "great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing" (The New York Times). In...
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Just This: New and Selected PoemsA powerful collection of poems from the bestselling creator of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. In Just This, beloved poet John Brehm returns with a rich and inclusive collection of his best poems. As he faces his own mortality and health challenges,...
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Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish"An imaginative triumph that will mesmerize readers" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) With dozens of major awards between them, a revered poet and a versatile artist pool their mastery to sing the praises of an undersea wonder. A graceful bundle of nerves three times as...
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A MemoirIn this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita...
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ConditionCondition is a vivid account of early motherhood during the isolation and global intensity of the COVID pandemic. Reynolds witnesses the impossible transformations of her home, her child, and herself while reckoning with a past that overlays the act of parenting. The book is...
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CantaresPoems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares MexicanosCantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history of the colonial and Indigenous Americas, oscillating between poetry and essay in a structure of repetitions derived from Mesoamerican...
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As Far As I Can Anthem: PoemsCompleted while traveling the state during her first year as Oregon's Poet Laureate, the poems in As Far as I Can Anthem enlist peoples and places across Oregon to inform, challenge and inspire readers in vital and unexpected ways. For other titles by Ellen...
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Worldly Things"Sometimes," writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines." In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother...
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Universal Corner: PoemsDancing at the intersection of melody and humanity, Mitchell L. H. Douglas' Universal Corner imagines what beat moves the world. Douglas' poetry rides the skip and pop of vinyl, radio waves, and mixtape collage through a complex modern life, his voice equally shaped by...
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Todos Somos Sagrados/All Are Sacred"Rey M. Rodríguez has written a love letter to all of us women, sisters, mothers. His is an important voice that needs to be heard. His words, full of poetry and heart, will touch your soul and make you feel less alone."-Reyna Grande, author...
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