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 Sun Has Shifted as Have I: Poems: PoemsA lyric reckoning with the radical possibility of joy.Jonathan Bailey maps the process of transformation, weaving themes of longing, belonging, and self-discovery. Set against the beauty of the West where the buzz of cicadas and the song of the hermit thrush echo across the...
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These Fiery HeartsFrom the banks of the Amazon to the quiet corners of growing up, this debut poetry collection gathers the pieces of a life lived in color, chaos, tenderness, and truth.Written across more than a decade - from teenage years to the brink of adulthood...
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The Portable Romantic Poets: Romantic Poets: Blake to PoeThis volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe...
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The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)"A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara's place on the international stage." --Paul Perry, novelist and poet This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynamic voice in Japanese early Modernist poetry to English-language readers. Goat Songs and Songs of Bygone...
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The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal PoetryAs our treatment of nonhuman animals is increasingly implicated in planetary crises--from climate change to global pandemics to unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and species extinction--it's clear that an urgent reconsideration of our relationship to other animals is not only necessary but overdue. How...
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The Last Song of the WorldJoseph Fasano's The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient ruins and mythological figures, these poems serve as vignettes of fatherhood,...
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The Committee of MenJames Ciano's debut collection, The Committee of Men, explores the cycles of violence men inflict on one another and themselves, examining how silence, shame, and inherited expectations shape masculine identity. Rooted in the speaker's experience as a college athlete from a family of athletes--including...
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The Book of Stroke: Meditations on a Rearranged LifeThe Book of Stroke is a collection of poems and commentary about making sense of a life after a stroke. Why poems? Early in my recovery, I couldn't focus on anything longer. It took me many months before I could write my first new...
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Splashed Things"In my new life, I must learn everything again," begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. With startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the...
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Shows Up Late With CoffeeShows Up Late With Coffee is a collection of poems about early motherhood from a fellow mom of two little kids. From the small joys, to the "messier" aspects, Elysse Wagner blends heartwarming sentiments and unfiltered statements to create a compact experience that will...
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Set the BoneSET THE BONE is an uncompromising interrogation of contemporary womanhood-its trauma, quiet rage, and relentless search for healing. Confronting the forces that shape women from the inside out, this collection reckons with family, mental health, feminism, and the cost of surviving in a world...
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Run It BackKortney Morrow's luminous debut collection, Run It Back, creates an iridescent dreamscape where early 2000s nostalgia is intricately woven into rigorous questioning around belonging, borders, fugitivity, and freedom. From a heroic crown sonnet stitching the colorways of an iconic basketball shoe with the economic...
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Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up"A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning"Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning" is a foundational exploration into the relationship between language, imagination, and the historical development of human consciousness. Written by Owen Barfield, this profound philosophical inquiry challenges conventional views on how words acquire and change their meanings over time....
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Of Thee I Sing: Poems That Celebrate Our American SpiritA Poetry Anthology of Freedom, Courage, and the Nation's Heart. Celebrate the voices that shaped America with this beautifully curated collection of over 35 iconic poems. From the midnight ride of Paul Revere to the open roads of Walt Whitman, from Emily Dickinson's quiet...
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New Names for StarsLen Lawson's remarkable poetry collection New Names for Stars is a journey and a companion for that journey, exploring Afrofuturism, superheroes, mental health, social justice, and beyond, with narratives ranging from personal to universal. At one moment, we're experiencing the daunting-yet-intimate vastness of the...
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Memorizing the WindOdes, nocturnes, aubades-if Keats were still here, he'd want to have a conversation and a glass of claret with Deirdre O'Connor. These are gorgeous poems but not pretty poems. There's a fidelity to the often messy world, a fidelity to the messy truth that...
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LobaLoba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material,...
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JoanA narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and poetic voice. Collapsing biography and autobiography, the poetry of Jake Rose's debut explores queer identity, grief, and desire through the historical framework of Joan of Arc's...
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Iliad & OdysseyThis elegant leather-bound edition includes the two essential Greek epics from the poet Homer. The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of Western literature, yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times. From the fascinating fall of...
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