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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The Fire PassageWinner of the 2025 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Pulitzer Prize recipient Diane Seuss, The Fire Passage is a lyric descent in the epic tradition, traveling unto realms unmoored by extreme weather and mysterious illness before resurfacing to the light...
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The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in PiecesExploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary. A gathering of journal entries, lyrical prose, poetry, and sketches...
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The Environmental Poetry of Augustan RomeThis book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere Romantic projections, that suggest Roman authors did not care about the environment, or that relegate...
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The Door at the End of EverythingWritten while Lynda Monahan was hospital writer-in-residence at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert, working often on the adult and youth mental health wards, the tight, pared poems in The Door at the End of Everything give voice to and honour those living with...
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The Curse of A Good NameReverend Patrick D. Coats is a generational man of faith whose life work is to spread the true and living word of God. His courage and unwavering belief in his purpose, paired with his extensive biblical knowledge, grants him unique indisputable abilities to motivate,...
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The Curse of A Good NameReverend Patrick D. Coats is a generational man of faith whose life work is to spread the true and living word of God. His courage and unwavering belief in his purpose, paired with his extensive biblical knowledge, grants him unique indisputable abilities to motivate,...
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The Complete Nonsense Books: De-Luxe EditionThis volume, which collects the four books of "nonsense" published by Lear during his lifetime, contains all of his most celebrated verse and prose productions, from his first collection of limericks, A Book of Nonsense, to his Nonsense Songs and Stories - which includes...
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Summoning Spirit: Modern HaikuIn this book Maga Jackson-Triche has combined some of her gracious paintings with 78 Modern Haiku poems. She truly does summon spirit with both her images and language and offers the reader moments of grace, reflection, contemplation and insight. In our fast-paced world she...
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Stopping By My Heart on a Fearless Day My Authentic ExpressionThis book serves as a medium for the author's genuine expression. The poems within reflect her true emotions, and through her words, she aspires to inspire and connect with others on a profound level. By embracing a freeform approach to her poetry, she has...
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Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley BaerThe precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California were alive for Robinson Jeffers, and throughout his long career as a poet, he extolled their wild beauty. His vivid descriptions inspired the best work of other artists who...
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Standing AloneWe all have those moments in our lives where we need reassurance or, we might just want to break down and have a good cry. Standing Alone is a book of poetry that is meant to inspire and touch the living soul. From poems...
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So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and TranslationHow a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry....
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So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and TranslationHow a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry....
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Sometimes You Make Me Think; Sometimes You Make Me LaughYou would not believe that I wrote this entire book with a coffee cup at three Denny's Restaurants That's Fifty years of poems, stories and essays: The Poems are down to earth and easy to understand. The Stories are real-life and comforting; bringing both...
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Shadow ReaderBeautifully illustrated in Imtiaz Dharker's distinctive style, Shadow Reader is a radiant criss-cross of encounters, messages and earthy Punjabi proverbs, shot through with the dark thread of an unwelcome prophecy. Imtiaz Dharker's new collection pays attention to wilful erasures, exclusions and also to places...
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Scattered Snows, to the North: PoemsAn arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips. Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory....
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Rock FlightOne more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest --Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses...
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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Red WildernessIn defiance of life's intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what haunts our country and ourselves. Coleman's second collection interpolates American history...
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