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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Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and RemembrancesThis powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In an intimate and non-traditional (or...
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further PossibilitiesThis award-winning debut interrogates the fragile, inherited ways of approaching love and family from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.Author: Chen ChenPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 04/11/2017Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781942683339Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/27/2017Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 89About the...
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We Talked About New YorkWith a subtle nod to E.B. White's classic, "Here Is New York," award-winning poet and master baker Klecko spins his own stories of New York City. From time in Central Park to a chess game in the rain, from a visit to a jazz...
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We Had Our Reasons: Poems by Ricardo Ruiz and Other Hardworking Mexicans from Eastern WashingtonWe Had Our Reasons is a collection of poems created by Ricardo Ruiz in collaboration with other members of his Mexican farm community in Eastern Washington. The poems, vivid and pointed, guide the reader through the thoughts and struggles that come with the decision...
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War PrimerA terrifying series of short poems by one of the world's leading playwrights, set to images of World War II In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He...
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Turn Up the Ocean: PoemsThe final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, "one of the most distinctive voices of our time" (Carl Dennis). Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the...
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True MistakesFinalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In her debut collection True Mistakes, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time. As the poet goes about daily...
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To Phrase A Prayer for PeaceTo Phrase a Prayer for Peace wrestles with what is holy, with the world as we humans have constructed it, with war and violence, with love and friendship, with communication between people (and nations) who may not agree. Donna Spruijt-Metz writes about being comfortable...
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Time Will TellTime Will Tell is a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Come along and discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the universe knows you can be. From the bestselling author of Pillow Thoughts...
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This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation--Poems, Prose, PracticesAn inspirational roadmap to changing yourself--and the world--through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung. Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose,...
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The Wonder of Mushrooms: The Mysterious World of FungiGet to know the kingdom of Fungi like never before with this unique book that blends the science of mycology with lyrical prose and watercolor paintings.Take an extraordinary expedition into the diverse and enchanting realm of fungi. The Wonder of Mushrooms is where science...
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of PoetryA classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 02/23/1956Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.35w x 0.74dISBN: 9780156957052About...
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The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal: Spring Collection 2025: In His GardenThe Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal is from www.TheWayBack2Ourselves.com. WE ARE FOR SEEKERS, BELIEVERS, WANDERERS, AND CREATIVES.Here, at The Way Back to Ourselves, we are committed to making a community where our members can slow down, take a deep breath, and find the...
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The Undertaker's Daughter"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart." --Washington Post on CaptivityAuthor: Toi DerricottePublisher: University of...
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The Underdream: Poems"At once quiet, in the hours of hospital stays, diagnosis, and care, and loud, demanding its readers to look death in the face, to hold their own mortality, not apart from, but inextricably interwoven with the world around them."-Gray Davidson Carroll, author of Waterfall...
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: PoemsKingsley Tufts Poetry Award FinalistA thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This...
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Deluxe Slipcase EditionThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. - W.B. Yeats This beautiful silkbound hardback contains the complete poetic works of W.B. Yeats. One of Ireland's greatest writers, Yeats helped to revive the fortunes of Irish literature...
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The Mountain Poems of StonehouseWinner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award in Poetry Translation"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."--Kyoto JournalThe Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse--considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets--used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near...
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The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid Box Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature--The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid One of the preeminent translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal...
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The Holy & Broken BlissHow can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How can we respond to the double plague of a fierce pandemic and a divided society? The keenly observant and urgent poems of The Holy & Broken Bliss...
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