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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Birthing ButterfliesBirthing Butterflies aligns the metamorphosis of butterflies, a symbol of transformation and resurrection, with nineteenth-century Black enslaved mothers. Like a cocoon, their wombs nurtured and birthed memories that sustained Black life. Just as butterflies take flight from the confines of their self-built shells, these...
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As the Frost MeltsAs the Frost Melts is a poetry collection that embraces the beauty and heartbreak of life, the joy of whimsy, and the intricacy of the written word. Compiled by eleven teenagers with poetry in their hearts and a heart for their poetry, the collection...
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Artful Worship: A Collection of Poems, Short Stories, Sermon Outlines, and a Bonus Section for ChildrenArtful Worship is a collection of inspiring poems, short stories, and sermon outlines. There is also a bonus section with children's bible stories. This collection of inspiring works, by Beverly Ray Porter, will allow the reader to see inside this worship leaders mind, entering...
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Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Volume 2Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Second Edition, contains poems by more than 115 poets born in 1910 or later, including many who have not been anthologized before. Editor Cary Nelson introduces students to a diverse selection of vital poetry, presenting both canonical and lesser-known...
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AntennaeAntennae articulates a musical sensibility that reveals the beauty of love, the existential horrors of politics, and the pains of death or violence within intimate circles. In lines of mystical beauty, the poems (on love, hope, and hell) probe the innermost emotions, weave together...
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And Yes, This TooAnd Yes, This Too is a journey through a transformational period of midlife. In her first collection of poems, Laura Pelton Sweet sits with pain, serves tea to fear, dances with joy, and dips into an overwhelming pool of gratitude. These poems are one...
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An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Conversations with PoetsIn this collection of conversations, Ben Palpant, author of Letters From The Mountain, has compiled his intimate, one-on-one interviews with eighteen powerful poets of the 21st century. These intimate conversations cover an entire range of life experience, including grief, hope, culture, the writing craft,...
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A Map for Exiting the BodyThe speaker of Jin Cordaro's wise and transporting poems knows "the surge of a sewing machine whirring late into the night." She will tell you how "we drive through the towns of our mistakes." When you read A Map for Exiting the Body, you...
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A Magnificent Loneliness"I remember // once, turning to leave, a black purse over her shoulder. . ." Oneiric and surreal as always, Allison Benis White attempts to mediate, if not make sense of, inconceivable bereavement in her fifth collection of poetry. "A black purse, / over...
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All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be HappyPoems that offer an honest portrayal of the complex realities of motherhood, including the devastating effects of postpartum depression. Maternal mental illness is an ongoing health crisis and deserves awareness, not only in the medical world but in the poetry world, too. Bridget Bell's...
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A Little Book of Poems"Shoe, Fly, Shoe," "Four Seasons," and "Spider" are just a few examples of the homespun poetry within A Little Book of Poems. Inspired by the small and big moments throughout her life, Sandra Blair Romano's poetry captures moments in time, from her youth growing...
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After the OperationElizabeth T. Gray Jr.'s After the Operation reports from the No Man's Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been taken out of your skull? "An uninhabited coast," or...
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A Demon Spirit: Arabic Hunting PoemsVerses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In...
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A Child's Garden of VersesHere is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to...
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6 Lineage PoemsWinner of The 2024 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize, selected by Carolyn Hembree 6 Lineage Poems is a debut poetry collection rooted in the body and the world. Half the collection is lush and evocative, lingering in the sensuous. The other half sits in stillness...
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10 Questions: A Deep Look at Yourself Through PoetryIn "10 Questions: A Deep Look at Yourself Through Poetry," embark on a reflective journey that explores the contours of your thoughts and the depths of your soul. This book invites you to confront and engage with your most intimate self through a unique...
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Your Relationship to Motion Has ChangedYour Relationship to Motion Has Changed is an exploration through a wandering mind in the middle of external chaos. The poems trace private and public histories, from Lincoln mythos to serial killers, tied together through contorted bodies, whipped lungs, one eye firmly on the...
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Woe & Awe"Throughout Woe & Awe, her debut poetry collection, Lisa M. Miller invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, who dare to suggest, "What if adversity has always been/essential?" Sustained by their spirit, Miller wrestles intergenerational and personal trauma in poems of vision,...
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Within Flesh: Poems; In Conversation with Our Selves & Emily DickinsonBLACK LIVES MATTER! Released during Black History Month, this collection, featuring three distinct voices in conversation, offers readers an experience of protest, engagement, and sympathy evoked by the Civil War yet set against the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement of 2020. Al Salehi is...
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Wisdom of the Punk Buddha"I am a punk and a Buddhist, And I'm not conflicted at all." Wisdom of the Punk Buddha is the perfect amalgamation of thoughtful poetry and the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime of Buddhist philosophy and knowledge and devotion to the punk scene. Built...
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